An Effort to Increase The Students’ Mathematics Learning Outcome by Using Cooperative Learning’s Two Remain Two Guests of the Class VII Students of SMP Negeri I Jogonalan Kabupaten Klaten in the Semester I of 2011/2012 Academic Year

2011. An Effort to Increase The Students’ Mathematics Learning Outcome by Using Cooperative Learning’s Two Remain Two Guests of the Class VII Students of SMP Negeri I Jogonalan Kabupaten Klaten in the Semester I of 2011/2012 Academic Year. S-1 Thesis. Yogyakarta : Ahmad Dahlan University.

ABSTRACT

This research is aimed to improve the students’ mathematics learning outcome by using cooperative learning model’s Two Remain Two Guests in class VII of SMP Negeri I Jogonalan Kabupaten Klaten in the semester I of 2011/2012  academic year. 

This research is a classroom action research. The setting of the research is VII H class in Semester I of SMP Negeri I Jogonalan Kabupaten Klaten in the   academic year of 2011/2012. The research is planned into three cycles, but during the second cycle the research has achieved its indicator so that the research stops in cycle II only. The first and the second cycle consist of 3 meetings. In implementation stage, the researcher acts as the instructor and teacher and observer as well. The research instruments consist of observation sheets, diagnostic tests tasks, and interview.

The result of this research shows that cooperative learning model’s Two Remain Two Guests type can improve the students’ mathematics learning outcome. It can be seen from the observation sheets in four meetings and the students activity percentage which increases from 50%, 66,7%, 83,3% and 91,7%. So, it can be said that VII H class students of SMP Negeri I Jogonalan in semester I become more active. Furthermore, the result of diagnostic test in every cycle shows an increase in every KKM from 66,7% to 89,7%.