Improving Fourth Grade Students’ Science Larning Achivement Using Process Skill Approach At Inpres Mangga Dua Elementary School of Merauke

Abstract

The research is aimed to improve science learning achievement of the fourth grade students at Inpres Mangga Dua Elementary School of Merauke using process skill approach. This research is a classroom action research which is consisted of phases namely; plan, action, observation, and reflection. The subjects of this research are 23 fourth grade students at Inpres Mangga Dua Elementary School consisted of 14 female students and 9 male students. The data of the research is focused on teachers’ activity, students’ activity and on students learning achievement in understanding the process of erosion. The result of this research shows that there is a positive improvement on teachers’ and students’ activity as the learning takes place. Moreover, the students’ learning achievement is also improved. This improvement might be seen through the students’ learning achievement after the first cycle in which students classical comprehension is improved from 69% to 74,34% and it is also improved in the second cycle to become 81,5%. It is proved that students’ classical comprehension is categorized good. Students’ classical learning mastery at the first cycle is 73% and it is improved at the second cycle becoming 956%. It shows that the students’ learning mastery improvement is categorized very good. Based on the data above it might be concluded that process skill approach could improve the fourth grade students’ learning achievement at Inpres Mangga Dua Elementary School of Merauke.