Learning Achievement in Studying Elementary Statistics and Satisfaction of the Students Using Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD)

Abstract

The objective of this research was to compare learning achievements and satisfaction of students enrolled in Elementary Statistics. The students were divided into 2 groups: the selected group was taught according to STAD method; while the other group was taught according to the conventional way. The group of sample used in this research was 52 students who were purposively sampled from those enrolled in Elementary Statistics. Research instruments were the midterm test and final test of Elementary Statistics, the Elementary Statistics by STAD method satisfaction test. The statistics used are mean, standard deviation, t–test independent samples and chi-square test.
The results of this study were: 1) the achievement of learning in studying Elementary Statistics by STAD method was higher than that learning by conventional method at the significance 0.05; 2) the satisfaction of learning in studying elementary statistics by STAD method was good level, and 3) the score of satisfaction and the learning achievements are positive correlation in studying elementary statistics by STAD method.