This study aims to determine whether the understanding
of physics concepts of students taught by using cooperative learning
model type of talking stick is better than the understanding of physics
concepts taught conventionally in class VII MTsN Piladang District
Lima Puluh Kota. The type of this research is quasy experimental
research, with the research design of posstest only control group
design. The population in this study is class VII MTsN Piladang Year
Teaching 2017/2018 consisting of 5 classes. Sampling was done by
cluster random sampling technique. Obtained class as experiment
class and class as control class. The concept comprehension
instrument used in this study is an essay test. Data analysis in this
study used t test through SPSS program version 16, because the data
is normally distributed and the data group has homogeneous variance.
From the research, it is found that the average of experimental class is
80.67 and for the control class is 71.21. Based on data analysis
obtained, = 4.027 and = 1.672 at the real level of
0.05. The calculation results show that > , so
rejected and accepted. The conclusion obtained that the
implementation of Cooperative Type Talking Stick learning model
provides a better understanding of the concept of conventional
learning model in class VII MTsN Piladang District Lima Puluh Kota.
Kata Kunci: Talking stick, Pemahaman konsep fisika.