Tutorial Based on Problems and Role Playing to Increase Yogyakarta Open University Students’ Undestanding of Class Action Research

Class action research is one of the subjects of Elementary Teacher Education Department in Open University. Students can do class action research when they have conceptual understanding of the subject. The students can construct the understandig when the concepts were related to their preexisting knowledge and real-life situation. The aim of the research described effect of tutorial based on problem and role playing in increasing Yogyakarta Open University students’s undestanding of class action research. The subjects were 31 Yogyakarta Open University students. The stages of the method were as follow: (a) the researchers proposed real learning problem to the students, (b) the students in groups cooperatively solved the problem by answering some questions and developing a lesson plan, and (3) the students did the lesson plan in the class (role playing). The problems and the questions were in students’ worksheets. The results of implementation were as follow: (a) the students could explain nature and stages of class action research, (b) the students could develop a lesson plan to solve the learning problem, (c) the students could implement the plan in the class, (d) the students could make class action research proposal and (e) the average scores of the proposal was 78,65 (scale 0–100).