EFEKTIVITAS KONSELING KELOMPOK DENGAN TEKNIK POSITIVE REINFORCMENT UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN MENGEMUKAKAN PENDAPAT SISWA DI SMAN 2 MURUNG KABUPATEN MURUNG RAYA

Abstract

The communication between the teachers and the students in the class is essential to achieving a successful purpose in learning. Students are intended to have opinion sharing skill so that there is balance communication between the teachers and the students in teaching-learning activity. The purpose of this study is to found out the effectiveness of group counseling by the positive-reinforcement technique to improve students’ opinion sharing skils in SMAN 2 Murung, Murung Raya regency. The method of this study is Experiment quantitative with type pre-experiment design one group pretest-posttest. The subject of this study is a group of students of six people from eleventh grade of Science-Math and Twelfth grade of Social science in SMAN 2 Murung, Murung Raya regency was taken by sampling porposive technique. The data in this study are collected using the ability to sharing opinion, observation, interview and documentation. The result of this study found out that group counseling by the positive-reinforcement technique is significant to improve students’ opinion sharing skill in SMAN 2 Murung, Murung Raya regency, this is indicated from the test result of paired T test that got Sig. (p) 0.004 < 0.05 scores. In conclusion, the possitive-reinforcement technique is effective for enhancing students’ opinion sharing skill in SMAN 2 Murung, Murung Raya regency.