statement.”
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In addition, the questionnaires were administered to collect the data about questioning strategy used by the students.
C. Instrument and Technique of Data Collection
The writer used the instrument of the research to gather the data as follow: 1. Questionnaire
The writer administered questionnaire to the sample of the study which are first semester students of English Education Department to
know how far students used questioning as a reading comprehension strategy. Before distributing the questionnaire to the sample of the study,
the questionnaire has been tested by using software of SPSS 16.0 to check the validity and reliability of the questionnaire. The validity test which has
been used by the writer is construct validity. In addition, the validity test is aimed to measure how far the
instrument is appropriate to test what will be tested.
3
In consequences, before distributing the questionnaire to sample of the study, the writer has
to test the validity to measure whether the instrument is appropriate to be distributed. Beside, the writer also tests the reliability of instrument.
Reliability is aimed to measure the consistency of instrument if it is conducted twice or more.
4
It means that reliability test should be conducted in order to make the instrument reliable and appropriate to be
distributed to the sample of the study. To see the validity and reliability test of instrument, the writer has
distributed questionnaire which consisted of 33 items to 36 students of XI IPA I grades of SMAN 29 Jakarta. The result of questionnaires was
calculated by using software of SPSS 16.0.The writer used the level of significance 0.05 to find the valid items.
2
James Dean Brown, Using Survey in Language Program University of Hawaii at ManoaHonohulu, Hawaii , 2001, p. 6.
3
Masri Singarimbun and Sofian Effendi, Metode Penelitian Survai, penerbit LP3ES Indonesia , 2006, p. 124.
4
Ibid.
Based on the result of reliability test, the writer gained Cronbachs Alpha 0. 838. Hence the criteria of the data can be determined if the
reliability coefficient r
1
0.6.
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The result of reliability test was 0.838, or 0.838 0.6 therefore, it can be concluded that the questionnaire is
reliable. The validity test was also tested the questionnaire. The questionnaire
consists of 33 items. The items of questionnaire can be considered valid if r- value is higher than r- table. R table is 0.34. Hence, the result shows that
21 items are valid and 12 items are invalid. Then they were dropped from the questionnaire.
In addition, the questionnaire has been distributed to the sample of the study at the first semester students of Department of English Education,
UIN syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta. The questionnaire consists of 20 items which describes the characteristics of questioning as a reading
comprehension strategy. The questionnaire consists of three parts; before reading, during reading, and after reading. Due to the questionnaire is
aimed to test the positive statement; therefore the answer can be scored in likert scale as follows:
a. Absolutely agree = 5 b. Agree
= 4 c. Neutral
= 3 d. Disagree
= 2 e. Absolutely disagree = 1.
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Hence, after distributing the questionnaire to the sample of the study, the
writer calculated the students’ entire questionnaire by using SPSS 16.0 to know the sum score of questioning as a reading strategy used by the
students. Based on the likert scale above, it is possible the highest score of questionnaire gains 100. Due to the total of questionnaire are 20 items,
therefore 20 X 5 the highest response of statement = 100. The gained
5
Sofian Siregar, Statistika Deskriptif untuk Penelitian. Jakarta: Rajawali Press, 2011.
6
Ibid., p. 106.
