Penerapan Model Pembelajaran Cooperative Script Dalam Meningkatkan Kemampuan Membaca Intensif Siswa

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk meningkatkan kemampuan siswa membaca intensif dengan menerapkan model Cooperative Script. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode Penelitian Tindakan Kelas dengan prosedur pelaksanaannya adalah (1). Perencanaan, (2). Tindakan, (3). Observasi, dan (4). Refleksi. Kegiatan Penelitian Tindakan Kelas ini dilaksanakan dua siklus dengan menggunakan teknik pengumpulan data, lembar observasi dan lembar penilaian. Subjek penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas VIII-D yang berjumlah 33 orang dengan jumlah laki-laki 18 orang dan jumlah perempuan 15 orang. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, peningkatan hasil kemampuan siswa membaca intensif dengan menggunakan model cooperative script pada siklus I dengan nilai terendah 49 dan nilai tertinggi 75, 69 dengan nilai rata-rata 59, 03. Sedangkan, siklus II nilai terendah 76, 69 dan nilai tertinggi 90 dengan nilai rata-rata 81, 74. Hasil observasi peneliti siklus I pertemuan pertama 56, 94% dan pertemuan kedua sebesar 70, 83%. Sedangkan hasil observasi peneliti siklus II pertemuan pertama sebesar 77, 33% dan pertemuan kedua sebesar 90, 27%. Hasil observasi siswa siklus I pertemuan pertama sebesar 51, 51% dan pertemuan kedua 70, 83% sedangkan pada siklus II pertemuan pertama sebesar 91, 28% dan pertemuan kedua 94, 69%.

Game Theoretic Investigation of the Emerging Paradigm of Virtual Businesses: A Case of Strategic Change in Pakistani Organizations

Over the past few decades organization has experienced a change from modern and structural interpretivism to the postmodern era. A postmodern perspective of organization emphasizes the ever-changing relationship between concepts and is a defensive reaction to forces intrinsic to the social bodies. This thesis signifies the influence of postmodernism whereby organization has undergone strategic change towards the emergence of new paradigms. Such paradigm shifts have the potential to keep pace with environmental changes with flexibility, efficiency and contextually appropriate response. Virtual organization is one such paradigm. It emerged as an outcome of strategic change due to globalization and changing consumer preferences. This thesis initiates an inquiry into the paradigm of virtual organization of the SME clusters in Pakistan. The thesis introduces virtual organization as a temporary combination of geographically distributed and independently working parties, linked by ICTs for exploiting the emerging market opportunities. It specifically highlights how a virtual relationship could be established among the geographically proximate SMEs using low-technology means of ICTs. This thesis puts to test a unique methodology for the study of relationship between parties, that is, the game theoretic investigation into the virtual organization, wherein, the study further attempts to explore the game theoretic modeling of relationship among enterprises forming an exclusively virtual relationship. These are several key findings and the conclusions drawn from this research. Firstly, the geographically proximate enterprises in the SME clusters can establish a virtual relationship with lesser advanced means of ICTs. Secondly, the relationship among parties in a virtual organization could be modeled in the form of a non-cooperative game in which parties join together at an optimal Nash equilibrium. Thirdly, the mutual trust and social forces work to ensure coordination at the optimum performance level. Fourthly, this research claims an initiative not only in terms of the methods but also the scope as it introduces the paradigm of virtual organization in Pakistan using game theory to model the relationship among parties.