The Comparison of Effectiveness between Think Pair Share (TPS) and Team Assisted Individualization (TAI) Types of Cooperative Learning in Mathematics at Junior High School Students

Abstract

The current study aims to describe and compare the effectiveness of TPS type and TAI type of cooperative learning. The effectiveness of learning is seen from a significant increase in learning outcomes, the students’ activities are averagely in the active category at minimum, and the students’ responses tends to be minimally in the positive category. The research design used was a quasi-experimental study with Pretest and Posttest group design. This study involved two experimental classes. The population in this study was the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 3 Walenrang with which the two classes being the samples of the study were class VII.B taught by the use of TPS and class VII.C with TAI type of cooperative learning. The two research instruments used in this study were a test of mathematics learning outcomes and a non-test instrument which is an observation sheet of student activity and questionnaire of student responses. To find out the effectiveness of metaphorical learning through cooperative learning in TPS and TAI type, the data were analyzed with one sample t-test statistics at a significance level of 5%. Then to compare the effectiveness of the two experimental groups, the data were analyzed with an independent sample t-test. The results showed that 1) cooperative learning of TPS and TAI type were significantly effective in increasing students’ mathematics learning outcomes, the average of students’ activity was categorized as ‘active’, and student responses tends to be positive in category, 2) there was no significant differences between TPS type and TAI type of cooperative learning in the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 3 Walenrang.