SNOWBALL THROWING LEARNING MODEL IMPLEMENTATION IN ORDER TO INCREASE STUDENT CIVIC EDUCATION LEARNING OUTCOMES

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(ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.)INTRODUCTION:Education, a process of humanization, which attempts to mold humans or human effort to be able to realize themselves as human beings, understand things, act mature and be able to make people think critically (Driyarkara, 1980). Both of these attributes require the existence of teaching, guidance, and leadership from intelligent minds (Chandra, & Fransisca, 2009). Education is a process of changing attitudes and behavior of a person or group of people to think in a mature way through teaching and training. Besides, education is also regarded as a moral education that disclose of value engineering, value analysis, moral cognitive development, and social action (Hersh, 1998).To improve the quality of education, efforts were made and one of them is to improve the quality of learning. Learning is a process that occurs because of a conduit of information and receive information (Rusman, 2010). Learning is essentially a process of interaction between teachers and students, either direct interaction such as activity-face or indirectly. With good learning process, the quality of education directly improves while it also enhances the achievement of learning process of students.One of the achievements for students in the learning process is obtaining the value of good learning outcomes. Learning outcomes is a result obtained by students from participating in various learning activities and learning outcomes are usually expressed in the form of numbers, letters or words (Arikunto, 2005). In Indonesian national education system, learners achieve educational success which is expressed through Minimum Completeness Criteria (MCC). Minimum Completeness Criteria is the lowest criterion to declare the learners whether they mastered (Sudrajat, 2008).Snowball Throwing is a cooperative learning model that can be used to make students understand a difficult concept (Miftahul, 2014). Snowball Throwing method can also be used to determine the extent of knowledge and abilities possessed by students in mastering the material. In Snowball Throwing learning model, the students are formed into groups. Elected chairman of the group that will represent to accept the assignment of teachers. Each student makes a question that was shaped like a question paper and then thrown to the other students and then the students answer questions from the paper.Application of appropriate methods in a lesson can be observed by doing some form of research. One form of research that can be done is a form of action research. Action research is a practice in real -world interventions aimed at improving the practical situation. Research conducted by the teacher of action aimed at improving the learning situation which it is responsible (Aqib, 2009). Implementation of a class action can be done naturally in accordance with the schedule and the subject of ongoing lesson, so that this study did not result in disruption of the learning process.The essence of civic education in primary schools is as educational programs based on the values of Pancasila to develop and preserve the noble and moral values rooted in the nation's cultural identity is expected to be realized in the form of behavior in their daily lives (Gafur, 2006).Civic education is a form of education that guide value of human life fulfillment through the extension and deepening of the meaning of that guarantee meaningful human life (Phenix, 1964). Multicultural, cultural, linguistic, ethnic, and ethnic learning focuses on the formation of citizens who understand and are able to exercise their rights and obligations to become intelligent, skilled, and character citizens.LITERATUR REVIEW:Learning:Learning is basically a process of interaction between teachers and students, both in the form of direct interactions such as face-activity and indirect interactions. A good learning process will directly improve the quality of education as well as improve the achievement of student learning process. …