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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
A. Research Design
The research, entitled Implementation of Team Games Tournament TGT Type Cooperative Learning Model to Improve Learning Motivation and
Learning Achievement of XI Accounting 1 Students of SMK Negeri 1 Pengasih Academic Year 20162017 is a classroom action research.
Design of this research is Classroom Action Research CAR conducted a collaboration among principals, accounting teacher and researcher.
According to Kunandar 2011: 44 Classroom Action Research is an action research conducted by teacher as well as researcher in class or jointly with
others collaboration by designing, implementing, and reflect the action collaboratively and participatively, that had aims to repair or improve the
quality of the learning process in their class through an action treatment in a certain cycle. Then there are three items that can be explained:
1. Research is an activity of looking for specific object through a scientific methodology to collect and analyze data to solve a problem.
2. Action is an activity that is intentionally done with a specific purpose in the form of a cycle of activities that aim to improve or increase the quality
of teaching and learning process. 3. The classroom is a group of students at the same time receive the same
lessons from a teacher.
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So, classroom action research is an activity of looking for specific object through a scientific methodology to collect and analyze data to solve a problem
in a classroom using an action that has specific purpose to improve or increase the quality of teaching and learning process.
Based on Stephen Kemmis and Robin Mc Taggart ’s cycle model can be
described as follows:
Figure 2. Kemmis dan Taggart ’s Model of Classroom Action Research Suharsimi
Arikunto; 2014 According to Suharsimi Arikunto 2014: 75, four step of action
research are as follows: 1. Planning
In this phase, researcher explain what, why, when where, whom, and how the action was committed. In this case researcher compiled the
necessary learning tools in research such as lesson plans, observation sheet and questionnaire.
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2. Acting Phase 2 of the action research is the implementation, which is the
implementation or application of the draft contents are introduced into a class action. In this case the researcher implement Team Game
Tournament type of cooperative learning model in the classroom. 3. Observing
Phase 3 are observations activities will be did by the observer. In this case the researcher choose a collaborator as action observer.
4. Reflecting Phase 4 is an activity to restate what is already done. This reflection
activity is appropriate when teacher has finished to implementing the action, and then dealing with the researcher to discuss the
implementation of the action plan.
B. Research Setting