Research Design RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

A. Research Design

This research is Classroom Action Research. Wina Sanjaya 2010:26 states about the meaning of classroom action research as follows: PTK dapat diartikan sebagai proses pengkajian masalah pembelajaran di dalam kelas melalui refleksi diri dalam upaya untuk memecahkan masalah tersebut dengan cara melakukan berbagai tindakan yang terencana dalam situasi nyata serta menganalisis setiap pengaruh dari perlakuan tersebut. According to Jean McNiff 1992: 1, action research is the name given to an increasingly popular movement in educational research. It encourages a teacher to be reflective of his own practice in order to enhance the quality of education for himself and his pupils. Carr and Kemiss 1986 in Jean McNiff 1992: 2 state that action research is a form of self-reflective enquiry undertaken by participants teachers, students or principals in social situations in order to improve the rationality and justice of a their own social or educational practices, b their understanding of these practices, and c the situations in which these practices are carried out. Action research enables teachers to learn in their class include their learning methods and their assessment to their to be better understand, so it is can improve their quality and their effectiveness. 30 31 Stages in classroom research is planning, action, observation and reflection 1 Planning Before the implementation, it is necessary to make a planning as a preparatory. It needs to be planned well, make the learning scenario that contains the steps of learning activity in addition to other forms of activity that will be carried out, the learning media that support the implementation of action learning, prepare research instrument, for example to observe the processess, activity abd results learning, and test the appropriateness implementation of actions on the field. 2 Action If all actions are prepared, then the action scenarios implemented in actual learning situations. Corrective action implementation activity are the principal actions in the action research cycle. Actions carried out based on to the plan that had been developed. 3 Observation In general, observation is attempt to record the processess that occur during the learning. The observation done in the same time with the implementation of the action, so it is necessary to develop an easy and quick systems and procedures. The results of further observations were analyzed to obtain the conclusion. 32 4 Reflection Reflection is intended as an attempt to assess what have and have not happened, what is produced, why it happened, and what needs to be done next cycle. Results reflection used to define the next steps in the effort to produce improvement.

B. Time and Place of Research