Feedback of The Designed Materials

F. Materials Feedback and Revision

1. Feedback of The Designed Materials

The writer realizes that the designed materials need some revisions and improvements. The writer distributes materials evaluation questionnaires to the respondents in order to obtain evaluation, comments, suggestion, and feedback. The respondents are the teachers of SMP N 2 Sidoharjo and English Lecturers of English language Education Study Program. There are two main parts of the findings and discussion; those were preliminary field testing and final product revision. In delivering preliminary field testing, the writer distributes questionnaire to the respondent. The respondents are two English teachers of SMP N 2 Sidoharjo and two lecturers of English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University. The description of the respondents of the preliminary field testing is presented below: Table 4.7. The Description of the Respondents of the Preliminary Field Testing Group of respondents Sex Educational Background Teaching experiences in years M F D3 S1 S2 S3 5 5-10 10 English Teachers 2 2 2 English Lecturers 1 1 2 2 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI The respondents are chosen because they are master in English subject and they were able to give comment and suggestion in order to evaluate the designed materials. Having finished processing the data of the respondents’ background, the writer moves to the next step which discusses the result of the questionnaires. The questionnaires are in the form of open ended questions. There are two parts in the questionnaires. The first part of the questionnaire is by choosing one of the degrees of agreement. The degrees of agreement of the respondents are converted in numbers. The degrees of agreement are as follows: 1= strongly disagree very poor 2= disagree poor 3= agree good 4= strongly agree very good Table 4.8. The Results of Preliminary Field Testing Questionnaire No Respondents’ opinions Degree of Agreement 1 2 3 4 1 The basic competencies are well formulated 75 25 2 The indicators are well formulated 75 25 3 The indicators are effective to achieve the basic competencies 25 25 50 4 The topics are well selected 100 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI No Respondents’ opinions Degree of Agreement 1 2 3 4 5 The integrated materials are match with the basic competencies and indicators 25 50 25 6 The teaching learning activities are well developed 25 75 7 The tasks and activities can facilitate the students in learning English in integrated way 25 75 8 The tasks and activities can help the students comprehend the lesson 50 50 9 The materials are able to help the students to increase their skills 75 10 The integrated materials are appropriate for the seventh grade students of Junior High School 25 50 Based on the result of the evaluation questionnaire above, the total percentage of the designed materials ranged from 25 to 100, which means that the designed materials are appropriate and acceptable for the seventh grade students of SMP N 2 Sidoharjo. However, the designed materials still need revisions based on the respondents’ comments, suggestions, and feedback in the second part of the questionnaires. In the second part of the questionnaire, the respondents answer the open ended questions. There were four questions proposed in the second part of the questionnaire. The first question was about the respondents’ opinion about the PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI designed materials. The second question asks about the strength of the designed materials. The third question was about the weaknesses of the designed materials. And the last question asked about the respondents’ suggestion to make the designed materials better. From the four respondents, the writer gained four points which indicated the strength of the designed materials. Those are stated below: 1 the designed materials are good, interesting and reader friendly in terms of choice of fonts, color, and layout. 2 the chosen materials were appropriate for the seventh grade students of SMP N 2 Sidoharjo. 3 the exercises can help the students to learn and improve their skills. 4 The chosen materials were suitable with basic competency, standard competence, and indicators. However, there are several weaknesses mentioned by the respondents. The weaknesses are mentioned as follows: 1 the instructions of the tasks are not clear enough. 2 there were grammatical mistakes in some sentences. 3 there was more stress on speaking competence. The third question of the open ended question is aimed at gaining respondents’ suggestion. In this part, respondents give their suggestion to make the designed materials better. The writer gains some points from those suggestions. They were: 1 revise the instruction in each unit to make it clear and understandable. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 2 at the each unit, there should be an evaluation to measure whether the students have already understood the materials. 3 make table of content for the designed materials. Those suggestions are useful for the designed materials. Those are used to revise the designed materials to be better and appropriate for the seventh grade students of SMP N 2 Sidoharjo.

2. Main product revision