Impact of Synectic Learning Model with Mind Mapping Assignment in Improving Student's Learning Outcomes and Cognitive Ability at Lab School Junior High School Palu

摘要

The purpose of this research is to acquire a review of the effectivity of synectic learning model with mind mapping assignment for improvement of learning outcomes in cognitive field for VIII grade students in Labschool Junior high school, Tadulako University, Palu. The pre-experimental with one-group pretest-posttest design method is used as the research method. The object of this research is students in VIII grade of Labschool junior high school, Tadulako University, Palu. Since there is only one class of VIII grade in this school, the population of the research also becomes the sample. The data is collected using a test that aims to identify the learning outcomes of students cognitive ability, and observation sheet to observe the learning achievement. Improvement data of cognitive learning outcome were analyzed with statistical software, SPSS for Windows version 16.0. The results of observation achievement of the learning model from teacher activity are 99,58% and 93,24% from student activity. The result of this observation shows that the synectic learning activities with mind mapping assignment almost done as a whole, both in teacher and students activities perspective. The percentage of the initial test mean score (pretest) for students cognitive abilities before learning process (pre-test) is 21,78% from the ideal score, and then increase until 71,68% after cognitive learning process with post-test. The significance of the percentage increase in the mean score of pre-test and post-test can be represented by gains normalized mean score for the cognitive achievement of students at 63.43% which can be categorized as a high result. These results show that the students cognitive abilities were high. The obtained results indicate that the application of synectic learning model with mind mapping assignment can increase cognitive abilities.