THE IMPLEMENTATION OF COOPERATIVE LEARNING BASED ON NEWMAN’S ERROR ANALYSIS PROCEDURES IN MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS II COURSE

Abstract

The present study focuses on describing the undergraduate students’ error in solving mathematical
word problems through the implementation of the cooperative learning based on Newman’s Error
Analysis procedures. The subject of this research is second-year Mathematics Education students
(students of class 4A). According to the aims, the type of the research is a classroom action research
whose each cycle consists of four phases: planning, action, observation, and reflection. The action
is held through the implementation of the cooperative learning based on Newman’s Error Analysis
procedures which included five phases that were reading, comprehension, transformation, process
skills, and encoding. The research is done in one cycle as the time limitation of the research then the
researcher can’t continue to the next cycle. The collected data shows that the students’ errors in
solving mathematical problems based on the Newman’s Error Analysis phases are encoding as much
as 32.5%, process skills stands on 26.2%, transformation for 20.8%, comprehension as 12.6%, and
reading as 7.9%. The other result is the average of students’ final score is 75.73 yet only 65.38%
students who pass the minimum score, 65.
Key Words: Cooperative Learning, Newman Error Analysis, Word Problems, Statistics