ABSTRACT
Kholifah
Nurul. 2022. Developing Flipped Classroom
with Scientifc Approach to Improve
Students’ Understanding and Skills in Writing Descriptive Text for the Fifth Graders of SDN Pucang
1 Sidoarjo. Thesis,
Early Childhood Education Study Program,
Postgraduate, Universitas Negeri Surabaya, Supervisors (1) Prof. Dr. Mustaji,
M. Pd, and (2) Prof. Dr. M.
Turhan Yani, M. A
Keywords: flipped classroom , scientific, descriptive text
This study aims to investigate the validity, the practicality and the effectiveness of developing flipped classrrom with Scientific Approach
to improve students understanding and skills in
writing descriptive text for the fifth graders of SDN Pucang 1 Sidoarjo. This study used DDD-E. The subject of this study was the fifth
graders of SDN Pucang 1 Sidoarjo in which 7 students participated in limited field trial and 37 students participated
in wider field trial. The data collected were
documentation, validation, observation, questionnaire, and test. The
data analysis was done using
quantitative method from the analysis of observation data and teachers’ and students’ questionnaire. The
result of this study showed (1) high validity
of flipped classroom model in creating lesson plan, students’ worksheet, attitude and skills assessment sheet, and
study result test so that it can be used in this research.
(2) The practicality of the flipped
classroom model in accordance with
student responses and the implementation of the lesson
plan was declared
to receive a positive response
from the students
and the lesson plan was well-implemented.
(3) The effectiveness of
the flipped classroom model with a scientific approach to improve students’ understanding and writing skills
of descriptive text. In the limited field
trial of pre-test
and post-test, the results t-statistics = 17,557 > t-table = 2,447, which means that there is a significant
difference between X1 and X2. In the wider field trial the t-statistic = 26,889 >
t-table = 2,042 which means that there is a significant
difference between X1 and X2 . Based on these results, it
was concluded that the understanding and writing skills
of the fifth grade students
of SDN Pucang 1 were improved
after using the flipped
classroom model with a scientific approach.