Penerapan Model STAD Berbantuan Media Data Informasi dari Internet untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Menulis Teks Berita Peserta Didik Kelas VIII-K SMPN 22 Surabaya

Abstract

This study was aimed at improving the ability to write news texts of the seventh-grade students through the implementation of the STAD model assisted by information from the internet as the instructional media. It was a classroom action research. The subjects of this study were 38 students of class VIII-K. The study was located at SMPN 22 Surabaya. It had two cycles in which each cycle consisted of the planning, implementation, observation-evaluation, and reflection phases. Observation and tests were utilized to collect the data; whereas the data analysis was carried out using the descriptive techniques and descriptive statistics. Based on the results of the observation it revealed that in the implementation of the action research the teacher carried out learning activities in accordance with the learning improvement plan. Based on the results of the quantitative data analysis, it indicated that the average score of the students' news text writing ability showed an increase. In the initial phase the average score of the news text writing skills was 77.33 with the achievement of the minimum criteria of mastery learning (known as KKM) reached 68.42%. The first cycle average score was 84.98 with the KKM achievement of 78.95%; the second cycle average score was 87.76% with the achievement of KKM of 100%. It can thus be concluded that the application of the STAD model assisted by the internet-based information could improve the ability to write news text of class VIII-K students of SMP 22 Surabaya.