Peningkatan Hasil Belajar Biologi Siswa Kelas I SMP Negeri 4 Sidoarjo Melalui Kuis Numbered-Head-Together

Abstract

The low-motivated and inactive students and non-students-oriented class belong to problems causing students’ achievement low. Through classroom research, the problems were tested to get solution by integrating quiz to cooperative learning, kooperatif numbered-head-together. The classroom was conducted in two cycles to describe students’ activities, to know students’ responses after learning biology. The subject was the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 4 Sidoarjo totaling 36 students in the year 2009/2010. The data were collected by observation, tests, questionnaire and descriptively and qualitatively and then analyzed. The research findings showed that the students’ activities increase in group, completing tasks, thinking together, and answering quiz, and the students achievement increases and their responses towards the learning conducted were positive.