Group Investigation is one of the cooperative learning method which focused on student’s participation and activity to search their own subject matter or information which want to learn the subject from the matter available, such as books and search from Internet. The students followed since make the planning, either to choose the topic or how to learn through of the investigation. This type demands to the student’s abilities of communication or the group skill. Group Investigation model exercises the students to grow up their brain skill. The students as the followers actively will show from the first step until the last step of the learning process.
In this group investigation method there are 3 concepts: enquiry, knowledge, and the dynamic of the learning group. The research here is the dynamic of the learning group. The students give the responses the problems and solve it. The knowledge is the learning experience that has been founded directly or indirectly. And the dynamic of the learning group that shows describing a group of student which has a good interaction and share about their ideas, exchange their experiences, in their opinions.
Thing have to do in Group Investigation are:
- Grow up the group ability
- Cooperative Planning
- The Teachers Roles
When they do their homework, every member of group has their own opportunity to show their contribution. In the research, the student will find the information from the inside class or outside class. And than, the student collect the information from every member of the group to do the task.
All of the students have an investigation for their problem. Which one of the source is needed, who want to do id? And how to presented their project in the Class.
The teachers will prepare the source and facilitators. The teachers role their rule among the students groups and they pay their attention to also organize the students job and help the students to organize their job and help them when they get the trouble of the learning process in their group.
