Abstract
Background: Low proficiency in volleyball forearm passing and limited active student participation are important challenges in physical education, particularly when opportu-nities for practice are constrained by limited equipment.
Objective: This study aimed to improve students’ volleyball forearm-passing learning outcomes through the implementation of the Student Teams Achievement Division (STAD) cooperative learning model.
Methods: A classroom action research design was employed across two cycles, each consisting of planning, action, observation, and reflection stages. The participants were 36 tenth-grade students, including 14 boys and 22 girls. Instruction was organized into nine heterogeneous groups, while data were collected through observation, a forearm-passing performance test, and documentation. The data were analyzed descriptively using the number and percentage of students who met the mastery criterion.
Results: During the pre-action stage, 11 students (30.56%) achieved mastery. This num-ber increased to 16 students (44.44%) after Cycle I. Following instructional improvements in Cycle II, including the addition of practice aids to increase opportunities for practice, 33 students (91.67%) achieved mastery, exceeding the predetermined classical mastery crite-rion of 75%.
Conclusion: These findings indicate that the progressive implementation of STAD, ac-companied by reflection and instructional modification, was associated with improved volleyball forearm-passing performance. Future research should include comparison groups, larger samples, and measures of skill retention to provide stronger evidence re-garding the effectiveness of STAD.
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Dawa, F. M. , Prananta, I. G. N. A. C. , & Saputra, I. G. A. A. (2026). Improving volleyball forearm-passing learning outcomes through the STAD cooperative learning model: A classroom action research study. Physical Education Learning, Teaching, and Assessment, 1(1), 33-38. https://doi.org/10.68536/pelta.v1i1.13
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