The Principles of Active Learning Model

19 the learning process. While the challenges to be faced is the students demanded to be responsive to the learning process, students are required to be brave and not shy, and provide appropriate facilities with the subject matter. Sudrajat in Dewi Patmawati 2014: 3, explained the advantages of the method Learning Start With A Question are: 1 the student becomes ready to start learning, because students learn in advance so it has a bit of an idea and become more understanding after obtaining additional explanations from the teacher; 2 students be active in asking; 3 materials may be remembered longer; 4 The student intelligence sharpened by the time students learn to ask questions; 5 courage grown to express their opinions openly and broaden horizons through exchange of opinions in the group; 6 students learn to solve their own problems in groups and mutual cooperation between students who are good with the less intelligent students. In accordance with the perceptions and opinions of the experts on the previous discussion on techniques Learning Start with A Question, it can be concluded that in the technique students guided and facilitated by teachers to determine their needs, analyze the information received, selects the important parts, give meaning to the new information, and it’s able to modify the newly received knowledge with the experience and knowledge they have ever had. 20

B. Relevant Research

1. The research by Elza Firanda Riswandi 2012 entitled Model Active Learning dengan Teknik Learning Start With A Question dalam Peningkatan Keaktifan Peserta Didik pada Pembelajaran Akuntansi Kelas XI Ilmu Sosial 1 SMA Negeri 7 Yogyakarta Tahun Ajaran 20112012, showing results the implementation of a class action through the use of models Active learning with technique Learning Start with A Question can increase the activity of students in the accounting learning. This increase can be seen from the increase in percentage of active participation in Accounting learning Students in the classroom. Increased liveliness Students can be seen from the average aspect Visual student’s active participation in the first cycle and the second cycle 76,54 increase to 86,42. The average aspect Oral active participation of students in the first cycle and the second cycle 69,14 increase to 92,59. The average aspect liveliness Writing Students 87,65 the first cycle and the second cycle increased to 97,53. On average liveliness Participants of students third aspect on the first cycle showed 77,78 of students have been active and the second cycle increased to 92,18 by acquiring an increase of 14,4. Based on these results it can be concluded that the use of Active Learning Model techniques Learning Start With A Question can be increase