INCREASING STUDENT’S LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENT IN GENERAL BIOLOGY COURSE USING READING, QUESTIONING, AND ANSWERING METHOD

Student’s learning activities and achievement are the basic competences that student should have after learning. Active learning got some trouble to aplicate. It happen because the student don’t prepare their primary knowledge seriously. One alternative to solve this problem is using Reading, Questioning, and Answering method. This research is an action research that conducted in two cycles. Each cycle consists of planning, implementation, observation, and reflection. The subjects consisted of 46 student. The data were collected using observation sheets to know student’s learning activities and test instruments to know student’s learning achievement. The data were analyzed using qualitative approach, using percentage formula. The result of students’ learning activities and achievement in the first cycle were not good, therefore the research continue to the second cycle. The second cycle showed the increasing of student’s learning activities and achievement. The result show that RQA method can increase student learning activities and achievemen