The Effect of Reciprocal Teaching Approach to Student Achievement on Ecosystem Topic in Junior High School

Every teacher wants the learning process that fun
and focused on students. Less passion, less active, less focused and always plays are some problems that faced by the school, so that student achievement is decreased and not as expected by the teacher. To achieve the better learning achievement, teachers were trying to apply the reciprocal teaching approach. With the reciprocal teaching approach, the lessons will be more interested and more successful, where as it associated with experiences when the pupils can see, touch, say, do, try, thinking and so on. The study aims to determine theEffect of Applicationof the Reciprocal Teaching Approach and how
much its effect can improve student achievement on the
Ecosystem Topic ar Junior High School. This research belongs to an experiment research with control group design. This research used the instrument test which is multiple choice of 20 questions, that the whole matter was valid and reliable. Based on data analysis, average gain score in the classroom that is equal to 80,09, while the control class at 69,90. Based on data it is means that H0 refused and H1 accepted so there is the effect of
reciprocal teaching approach to students achievement.