THE EFFECT OF APPLYING STUDENT TEAMS ACHIVEMENT DIVISION (STAD) METHOD ON STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

This study deals with the applications of Student Teams Achievement Division (STAD) method on students achievement in writing descriptive text. The objective of the study was to find out whether STAD method significantly effected the students achievement in writing descriptive text. This study was conducted to 2012/2013 the seventh grade of SMP N.1 Sei Rampah, which consisted of 320 students in eight classes. Fourty students were taken as the sample by using purposive sampling. The sample was divided into two groups. The first group was experimental group, it was taught by applying STAD method in writing descriptive text, while the second group was control group, that was taught without applying STAD method. The instrument that was used in this study was a test. Those test were consisted of two test, pre test and post test. The result showed that the realibility of the test was 0,99. Then, after analyzing the data it was found that the value of t-observed was 3,085 with the degree of freedom (df) 38 at the level of significance p(0,05) = 2,002. It means that t-observed is higher than t-table (3,085 > 2,002). Based on the result, Ha was accepted. It means that STAD method has a significant effect on students achievement in writing descriptive text.