Geographical students’ learning outcomes on basic political science by using cooperative learning model with Group Investigation (GI) type in State University of Medan, Indonesia

Based on the report of the United Nations Development Program
(UNDP), the quality of human resource in Indonesia is very low
which can be seen from Human Development Index (HDI). In 2013,
HDI of Indonesia is at the ranking of 121 from 187 countries.
Cooperative learning model can be used to increase the quality
of Indonesia people for the future. In studying, a person must have
a partner or a friend so that the friend can be invited to solve
a problem. So here, cooperative learning is learning which groups
students into small groups in the classroom in order to work
together. Based on the result, it is proved that the result of
learning the basic of political science students treated by GI coop�erative learning model is higher.