CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
This chapter discusses the research methodology which was employed in an attempt to answer the research question empirically. In the relation to the path of data
collection, this chapter discuss research method applied. After that, research setting and participants, research instrument, data gathering and analysis technique are
scrutinized in this chapter.
A. Research Method
This research was under an umbrella of applied research that enabled the researcher to evaluate a program, in this case, it was to evaluate a textbook. It was
adopted in this research since it embraces a set of process in evaluating the quality of textbook. Evaluation research study was designed to find out to what extent a new
program, policy, textbook, a new way of doing something and so forth, has met the criteria mentioned in the second chapter of this report.
Evaluation research can be undergone quantitatively or qualitatively. In favor to conduct quantitative research, researcher may use a survey research. To conduct
evaluation research using qualitative data, the researcher must use the field research Neuman 2006. In survey research Neuman suggests to researchers to collect data
from a sample or could be smaller group of selected people. He suggests around 150 respondents to generalize result to a larger group of 5,000 people.
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B. Research Respondents
This research targeted junior high school teachers who implemented curriculum 2013 as the respondents. As it has been described in the previous chapter,
the implementation of curriculum 2013 did not cover all junior high schools throughout Indonesia. Each region and province in Indonesia has pointed selected
school to implement and use textbook of curriculum 2013 in odd semester. In odd semester 2014, more schools implemented C 13.
Since it was survey research, it was conducted in 10 junior high schools in Special Province of Yogyakarta. These schools were pointed to implement the C13 in
Yogyakarta. Special Province of Yogyakarta has five districts including the city of Yogyakarta. The researcher picked up two schools for each district as sampling. From
each school, the researcher took two teachers to be participated in the survey research. The teachers vary in terms of the length of teaching experience. The very
least year of experience was two years. While the most experienced teacher had 35 years of teaching experience.
To sum up, this research was supposed to involve twenty teachers teaching in different junior high schools in the province of Yogyakarta. However, due to some
circumstances, there were two teachers who refused to join the survey and one teacher filled out the questionnaire with the same answers for every item. As result,
this respondent is considered failed. Therefore, by the end of the data gathering, there were only 13 respondents whose data was considered as valid.
C. Research Instrument
Two research instruments were utilized in order to attain feedback from this study. First, it was an evaluative questionnaire adopted from Cunningsworth
’s checklist. Second, to triangulate the data taken, an open ended questionnaire was
distributed then. For the evaluative questionnaire, the items were established by adopting
Cunningswor th’s checklist which focused on the aim, approach, language skills,
design or organization, language content, and topic used. There were seventy-one items prescribed in the questionnaire which these items were measured using Likert
scale. In order to reduce the number of invalidity of the survey result, the researcher only used 4 scales instead of 5 scales namely scale 1 for strongly disagree, 2 for
disagree, 3 for agree, and 4 for strongly agree to the item. Beside closed item which was prescribed in form of statement, the
questionnaire also encompassed open questions for the respondents to answer. This was aimed to obtain the triangulation data. Besides using open questions, the
researcher also used textbook close reading to get the factual evidence from textbook to crosscheck whether the survey results were confirmed.
D. Data Gathering Techniques
In gathering the data, at first, the researcher made an appointment with twenty teachers. However, like what it has been stated above that due to some circumstances,
two teachers refused to join the survey and one teacher filled out the questionnaire with the same answers for every item. As result, only thirteen teachers who kindly
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