Summary of 3 journals about CAR

The Implementation of Group Investigation to Improve the Students’ Speaking Skill by Iswardati

There are many alternatives strategies to improve the student’s ability in speaking. One of the strategies that a teacher could use is group investigation. Slavin (2008) states that group investigation is related to the activities of collecting, analyzing, and synthesizing information in order to solving a multi-task problem. The students can look for any information from the inside or outside the classroom, such as: books, institution, or society.
Group investigation has several advantages. First, it can improve students’ academic achievement. Slavin (2008) reveals that cooperative learning techniques including group investigation is helpful to achieve personal learning goal by achieving group learning goal. If a member of a group wants to achieve his/her goal, she/he must help achieving the group goal. By doing together to get the group goal, the students can apply an appropriate way to get the success in learning. In cooperative learning classroom, the higher students help the lower achievers. Second, it motivates students to learn. Students’ learning motivation plays an important role in determining the success of their academic performances.


Improving the Achievement on Writing Narrative Text through Discussion Starter Story Technique by Rodearta Purba

Some students were not able to formulate ideas from their mind into written language. It is proven that most of the students can not write simple paragraph in writing narrative text and as a result they got low score in writing. It caused that students were bad in grammar, and their vocabularies were limited.
There are many techniques in improving the students’ writing skil, one of them is Discussion Starter Story technique. Discussion starter story tecnique is one of the group learning techniques that involves students directly because it requires direct srudents’ thinking that are closely related with the students’ writing skills in solving theproblems. The discussion starter story technique couldhelp the students to make the advanced story of the text that not clear in the resolution and because of that the students were able to write their personal experience be better.

Improving Students’ Creative Thinking and Achievement through The Implementation of Multiple Intelligence Approach with Mind Mapping

Mind mapping is a technique to record creatively that can optimize the students’ intelligence. Furthermore, according to Depotter, et al., [23] mind mapping method can stimulate the mind to think actively. This occurs since mind mapping method is parallel to the principle of the natural working of the mind.
With these phases and the integration of mind mapping, the students are helped in developing their intelligence. Hence, all of their potentialities will easily construct their understanding of the concepts they learn. The students with understanding of the concepts learned will automatically improve their knowledge and this in its turn will lead to an improvement in the students’ knowledge and will lead to the improvement of te students’ learning achievement.