Writing Ability Improvement Through Student Teams Achievement Divisions at Pirayanawin Klonghin Wittaya School

Abstract

The aims of this research is to find out how Student Teams-Achievement
Divisions (STAD) can improve students’ descriptive writing ability of the
third grade students at Pirayanawin Klonghin Wittaya School, Thailand in
the 2014/2015 academic year. The design of this research is classroom action
research (CAR). The subject of the research is the third grade of Pirayanawin
Klonghin Wittaya School in the 2014/2015 academic year that consists of 33
students. The observation used writing test as primary data and observation
checklist. STAD improved the students descriptive writing ability in two cycles
from the percentage of students scored ≥ 63,was 56.6% in cycle 1 to 80% in
cycle 2 and from M= 62.2 in cycle 1 to M= 72 in cycle 2. Based on the research
result, it can be concluded that STAD (Student Achievement Divisions) is able
to improve students’ descriptive writing ability by having heterogeneous teams
in terms of ability and gender that make them easy in generating their ideas
and able to have peer tutoring.
Keywords: writing ability, STAD (students teams achievement divisions)