This research aimed to know the comparison of students’achievemeat
in biology between class who apply TGT (tournament team games) with a class who
apply STAD (student achievement division team) using handouts in the digestive
system at VII grade studentsSMPN 19 Pekanbaru.This research was conducted in
odd semester, October 2014.The design of the researchwasweak experiment, the
static group pretes-posttest Design.The sample wasthe students gradeVIII1 and VIII2.
With the member of each class was 35 students.Which taken by simple random
sampling. Data were collected, through pretest, posttest, andteacher’s and
students’activity sheets.Data were analysed by using independent t-test independent
2sample. The everage ofN-Gain in TGT class was 0.72 (high)and STAD class was
0.42 (middle). There fore, it cau be concluded that there was a differences on student’
learning achievement on class who apply TGT and STAD. Learning model TGT was
better tobe used to impore student’s learning achieveman grade VIII SMP Negeri 19
Pekanbaru academic year 2014/2015.
Key Words : TGT, STAD, learning achievement, handout, digestive system