Abstract

The Effectiveness of Student Teams-Achievement Division (STAD) in Enhancing Higher

Order Thinking Skills in Learning the Concept of Light Energy
Student Teams-Achievement Division (STAD) is one of the cooperative learning method that
able to aid development of high-order thinking skills, besides enhancing motivation and peer
relations (Slavin,1985). The purpose of this action research intervention over two cycles,
referring to Spiral Model by Kemmis & Taggart (1988) is to examine the effectiveness of
STAD approach in enhancing selected Year 5 students higher order thinking skills and
improve students achievement. The intervention was carried out during their science lesson
on light energy unit. Purposive sampling was used to select 16 participants from the Year 5
Terbilang (consisted of 8 girls and 8 boys) who represented high, medium and low achievers
in science. Data were collected through pre-test and post-test, interviews and classroom
observations. Significant positive effect in students higher order thinking skills and students
achievement is expected after the intervention of STAD, a learner-centred approach.

KAVITHA MASLAMANY
SK TAMAN DATO HARUN (2)
KM 12, JLN KLANG LAMA,
PETALING JAYA.