UPAYA MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN MENENTUKAN IDE POKOK PARAGRAF DALAM TEKS EKSPLANASI MELALUI ZOOM CLOUD MEETING DAN MODEL DISCOVERY LEARNING KEPADA PESERTA DIDIK KELAS VIII PROGRAM INTERNASIONAL SMP BINA INSANI BOGOR TAHUN AJARAN 2020/2021

Abstract

Class Action Research on students of grade VIII International Program of SMP Bina Insani Bogor was based on students' relatively low ability to determine main ideas. The learning method is also dominated by a lecturing method so that students do not participate in finding other learning sources. The purpose of this research is to improve the ability to determine the main idea of paragraphs in an explanatory text through Zoom Cloud Meeting and Discovery Learning models to students of grade VIII International Program of SMP Bina Insani Bogor, the academic year 2020/2021. The study consists of 3 cycles, each of which consists of planning, action, observing, and reflecting. Data collection in this study used an instrument in the form of observation sheets in the learning process, while to determine the quality of student learning outcomes used evaluation sheets or tests. The results showed that using the Discovery Learning model and Zoom Cloud Meeting can improve student learning outcomes in determining the main idea of paragraphs in the explanatory text within the average description of student test results are 73, 78, and 90.