The influences of peer tutoring method to improve conceptual understanding

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the effect of peer tutoring method implementation to improve conceptual understanding. The effect will be investigated from the results of previous studies. This study uses meta-analysis. Meta-analysis is a research conducted by researchers by summarizing research data, reviewing and analyzing research data from a number of research results in similar problems. Data were taken from the various thesis and research in the last 5 years and collected by browsing electronic journals through Google Scholar. Eighteen articles related to peer tutor methods to improve conceptual understanding were found through Google Scholar. The article data is processed by summarizing and determining the essence of the research result with the peer tutor method. Then the data is reported back to quantitative and qualitative description. Based on the analysis of the results, the peer tutoring method can improve conceptual understanding from as little as 5,30% up to 39,75% with an average of 17,83%. The technique of data analysis was used paired t-test and obtained a value of significance (0,039) < α (0,050) so that the peer tutor method significantly influence the student’s conceptual understanding.