There are some students who do not pay attention during the teaching and learning activities in the classroom, they even do other activities, and go out
from the classroom without an apparent reason. Lack of interpersonal communication between the teachers and students. Lack of student awareness
about the importance of materials delivered by the teacher. Learning outcomes of accounting is relatively low, this is proven from the low average test score
that is only 50, from 21 students only 7 that can meet the minimum criteria and there are 14 the students who have not reached the minimum completeness
criteria KKM. Therefore, researchers are very interested in doing research, entitled The Implementation of Cooperative Learning Model Type Think Pair
Share TPS To Improve Students Learning Outcomes in Accounting of the Grade XI Accounting Study Program at SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Moyudan
Academic Year of 20142015”.
B. Identification of the Problem
Based on the background of the study above, the identified problems are: 1.
Learning model applied by the teacher in presenting the material is still conventional, monotonous, as well as have not use the innovative and
creative learning models. 2.
Several students of Grade XI Accounting Study Program at SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Moyudan tend to be lazy, not on time in doing the task
given by the teacher, and the results of their work are not as good as expected.
3. There are some students who do not pay attention during the teaching and
learning activities in the classroom, they even do other activities, and go out from the classroom without an apparent reason.
4. Lack of interpersonal communication between the teachers and students.
5. Lack of student awareness about the importance of materials delivered by
the teacher. 6.
The students learning outcome is still not optimal, it is shown by 14 from 21 students were have not reached the minimum completeness criteria
KKM that have been determined.
C. Problems Restriction
Based on the background of the study and the identification of the problem above, it needs to create the restrictions of the problem. The problems
restriction in this research were located in the implementation of Cooperative Learning Model Type Think Pair Share TPS to improve students learning
outcomes in accounting of the Grade XI Accounting Study Program at SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Moyudan academic year of 20142015. This research is only
implemented to the subject matter of Inventory Valuation Method in the Periodic Recording System and Inventory Valuation Method in the Prepetual
Recording System, there are many other subject matter in Accounting.
D. Problems Formulation
Based on the problems restriction which has been described above, the formulation of the problem in this research is: “Can the implementation of
Cooperative Learning Model type Think Pair Share TPS improving students learning outcomes in accounting of the Grade XI Accounting Study Program at
SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Moyudan academic year of 20142015?”
E. Objective of the Research
