THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF COOPERATIVE LEARNING MODEL IN THE FORM OF NUMBERED HEADS TOGETHER AND SNOWBALL THROWING TOWARD THE STUDENT’S CIVIC EDUCATIONS LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT

Abstract

Abstract-The study aims to compare between influence of  Numbered Heads Together and Snowball Throwing of cooperative learning achievment of Civic Education class for 8^st grade student at SMP Negeri 2 Pengasih.

The research’s type was quasi experiment. Population of this research were all of the 8^st grade student at SMP Negeri 2 Pengasih with 128 students. Technique of getting sample in this research was using simple random sampling in 8^st B class as an experiment class 1 (32 students) and 8^st class as experiment 2 class (32 students). Mechanism for getting data was using test and documentation. Thecnique of analyzing data was using t-test with 5% significance.

The result showed that cooperative learning model type Numbered Heads Together more influential than cooperative learning model type Snowball Throwing to increase student’s achievement of study Civic Education class for 8^st grade student at SMP Negeri 2 Pengasih. It showed that the t_count was larger than t_table (4,070>1,670) and the result of means of Gain Score the experiment class 1 was is of 0,4652 indicating the effectiveness is medium categories while those of experiment class 2 was 0,4652 that indicating the effectiveness is low categories.

Keywords: Numbered Heads Together, Snowball Throwing, and achievement of study.