Wuryansari Muharini Kusumawinahyu
Inspired by multilevel marketing strategy, a strategy called multilevel rewarding is implemented in a learning process. This strategy is conducted by giving score to a student who help the others in doing assignment. When the assisted student also helps the others then both the first and second assistants obtain score. In this strategy, every student who gets assistance from the others has to mention the helpers in their assignment sheets. The score is also given to the assistant when an assisted student reaches the good result in exam. This strategy has been implemented to the Complex Function Class at Mathematics Department of Brawijaya University, Indonesia. At the end of the semester the lecturer recognizes the characteristics of the students. There are students who are not only independent, but also like to assist other students. On the other hand, there are also the independent students who never help another student. Moreover, some solitaire students, who never ask for help from others even though they could not do the assignment, are also recognized. The interesting result is that there are many students who become independent in the end of semester after assisted by another student in the early of semester. © The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology.
Institute for Research and Development on Education (LP3), Brawijaya University, Malang, East Java, Indonesia
