Geographical students’ learning outcomes on basic political science by using cooperative learning model with Group Investigation (GI) type in State University of Medan, Indonesia

Abstract

Based on the report of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the quality of human resource in Indonesia is very low which can be seen from Human Development Index (HDI). In 2013, HDI of Indonesia is at the ranking of 121 from 187 countries. Cooperative learning model can be used to increase the quality of Indonesia people for the future. In studying, a person must have a partner or a friend so that the friend can be invited to solve a problem. So here, cooperative learning is learning which groups students into small groups in the classroom in order to work together. Based on the result, it is proved that the result of learning the basic of political science students treated by GI cooperative learning model is higher.