Abstract
This research aimed to find out the effectiveness of peer group learning method in improving the college students’ achievement. This research uses one group pretest and posttest design. The population is non-formal education students of State University of Padang who take Education Statistics Subject in January-June 2017, consists of two classes each of which is control group and experimental group. There are 30 students in the control group and 41 students in the experimental group. The data obtained from the students’ learning result during January-June 2017 and analyzed using t-test statistical technique. The purposes of the research are (1) peer tutor is a strategy to help fulfilling the students’ need; (2) peer tutors will be proud of their role and they will learn from their experiences as tutor; and (3) peer tutor’s help can eliminate the students’ clumsiness. The research findings indicate that the students’ learning result with conventional learning method is unsatisfactory, the peer group learning method can improve the students’ learning result, and there is a significant difference between the students’ achievement learned with the conventional method and learned with the peer group method.
Highlights
Education plays an important role to improve the quality of a nation
Before presenting the research finding, it is necessary to describe the pretest result of the control group and experimental group
It is shown that the highest achievement of control group is categorized moderate that is 47% or 14 out of 30 students of the control group
Summary
Education plays an important role to improve the quality of a nation. The quality of nations is marked and measured by the quality of their education. It is clearly stated that national education is to develop the ability, build the character and dignified civilization of the nation to educate the nation (Tobias, Wales, Syamsulhakim, & Suharti, 2014). At this time, education in Indonesia has some problems. One of them is about the low quality of education (Suryadarma, 2011; Tobias et al, 2014; UNESCO, 2010). It can be seen from the low students’ achievement High or low achievement in the learning activity in educational institutions is influenced by many factors both internal and external. The external factors are parenting factors, environmental factors, facilities and infrastructures of the educational institutions (Afshari, Bakar, Luan, Samah, & Fooi, 2009), and learning method (Agbo, 2015; Duruji, Azuh, & Oviasogie, 2014; Mege, 2014)
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