The Effects of Students Team Achievement Division (STAD) to Improve Students’ Achievement in Writing Skill

Abstract

Charlie Baka. The Effects of Students Team Achievement Division (STAD) to Improve Students’
Achievement in Writing Skill (Supervised by Kisman Salija and Murni Mahmud)
The objectives of this research are (1) to find out whether the use of Students Team Achievement
Division (STAD) improve students’ achievement in writing skill (2) to find out whether the use of
STAD motivate the students in learning writing skill at fourth semester of English department of UKI
Toraja. This research employed quasi-experimental design. It used two groups, one received treatment
STAD and the other group received GI. The subjects of this research were class F and G were taken
randomly. Class F as the experimental group and class G as control group consisted of 30 students.
The data of this research was collected through writing test and questionnaire. The results of this
research were (1) The use of STAD has effects to improve the writing achievement of the fourth
semester students of UKI Toraja in experimental class. (2) The motivations of the fourth semester
students of UKI Toraja as experimental class showed a great positive in learning writing by using
STAD. So, it can be concluded that the use of STAD motivated the students in writing and agreed to
use of STAD because it could built students’ confidence and finding ideas. Many students also agreed
that the use of STAD was interested in work group session.