The Effect of Peer Tutoring Strategy on Students’ Vocabulary Achievement at SMK Negeri 1 Rantau Utara

Abstract

Peer tutoring is a type of instructional strategy in which students are taught by their peers, who have been trained and supervised by the classroom teacher. Peer tutoring involves having students work in pairs, with another student of the same age or grade. Peer tutoring is an extremely powerful way to improve student academic, social, and behaviors. The population in this study were all class XI Accounting SMK Negeri 1 Rantau Utara Rantauprapat 2018/2019 academic year consisting of 104 people. The research sample was taken using a saturated sample technique with the experimental method. The average student achievement outcomes using peer tutoring = 76.17 with a standard deviation of 7.18 while those that do not use = 55.82 with a standard deviation of 14.53. From the difference in mean values from real level a = 0.04 indicates that students who get treatment peer tutoring is better than those who don’t get it. So, that it can be seen that the use of peer tutoring strategy can effect students’ vocabulary achievement at SMK Negeri 1 Rantau Utara in Academic Year 2018/2019.