DEVELOPMENT OF ESSAY WRITING ABILITY FOR GRADE 7 STUDENTS BY IMPLEMENTING CIRC COLLABORATIVE LEARNING TECHNIQUES

Abstract

Writing skills are an important skill in communication especially for grade 7 students who need to be able to write essays but students had the most problems with this type of writing. The purpose of this research was studying the effect of implementing innovations develop essay writing abilities of grade 7 students whose assessment results pass the standard criteria of 50 percent but do not pass the criteria of 60 percent. There were 3 phases of implementation, phase 1, analysis of classroom problems, phase 2, innovation development, phase 3, implementation of the learning management model. The result showed that 1) essay writing is the assessed skill that needs to be developed the most. From the survey of the problem, it was found that there were 5 students who did not pass the criteria set by the researcher from a total of 42 students. The main reason is the inability to write the order of thoughts, inability to write a clear main idea, unable to write sequence of events, unable to write concepts, lack of proper punctuation, and unable to spell words. 2) Innovation used for development is using cooperative learning management activities, CIRC techniques, the results of innovation checks from experts found that the innovations were suitable for use in development for essay writing, the IOC value is 0.90. 3) The results of applying innovation to solve problems showed that all 5 target students passed the criteria for essay writing assessment with scores of 70, 80, 80, 80 and 90 respectively.