IMPROVING THE SKILLS OF WRITING DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPHS THROUGH THE PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING (PBL) MODEL OF CLASS V STUDENTS

Abstract

This classroom action research was carried out against the background of writing activities that need to be owned by every individual. Having writing skills can help students broaden and deepen their thinking, as a forum for conveying ideas, ideas, and a separate meaning. This classroom action research also aims to describe the improvement in writing skills of descriptive paragraphs through the problem-based learning (PBL) model of fifth-grade students at one of the public elementary schools in the Province of Yogyakarta. The type of research used is Classroom Action Research (CAR) using the Kemmis and Mc models. Taggart. Data collection techniques in this study are data analysis techniques, observation, testing, and documentation. The data analysis technique used in this study is quantitative data analysis techniques to analyze the results of the student's writing paragraph description test and qualitative data to describe the results of observations. The results of the skills to write descriptive paragraphs in the pre-action were obtaining an average score of 48.09 with classical completeness of 17%; Cycle I obtained an average score of 74.19 with 55% classical completeness; and saw an increase in cycle II obtaining an average value of 87.03 with 87% classical completeness. So based on the results obtained above it can be concluded that the Problem-Based Learning (PBL) learning model was able to improve the skills of writing descriptive paragraphs for fifth-grade students in one of the public elementary schools in the Province of DI Yogyakarta.