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2 Interview Guidelines
The interview was done by the researcher to get the detailed information and to make a crosscheck of students’ impressions of learning activities during the
research. The researcher interviewed the collaborator and the 8
th
grade students.
3 Students’ reading test
This study used two kinds of tests: a test given at the pre-action and a test at the end of Cycle I and Cycle II.
Students are assigned to read the English text individually in the form of macromedia-flash program and answer the questions based on the text. The tests are
given to the students in order to determine students reading ability.
E. Data Collection Techniques
Data were collected by observation, interview, tests, and documentation. All the data collection techniques are used to obtain data on the results of the action
research. The results are combined and analyzed to further be concluded.
1. Class Observation
Stake 2010: 90 states that observation can allow the researcher to get the information which can be seen, heard, or felt directly. Observation was conducted to
obtain data from research subjects including qualitative data in the form of expression, posture, activity, attention, motivation, and confidence of the students.
The observations carried out to observe the behavior of students, student responses, and assessment of students learning methods used when they are reading. When the
learning process takes place, the researcher considered the suitability of the learning
23 stages that has been agreed. The learning stages that carried should be directed to the
goal of improving reading skills.
2. Test
The test is a learning outcome assessment tool used to assess and measure student learning outcomes related to the mastery of teaching materials appropriate to
the learning objectives. The test is used to measure the level of students reading
skills. There were pre-test and post-test. Pre-test was conducted before the researcher did the action. Meanwhile, post-test was held if last cycle was done.
a. Test instruments
The form of test instruments is questions description consisting of questions about Recount text. Each question done by students then analyzed
and in the end of each question the score are combined to obtain an overall score. From the total score then processed to obtain the final score in further
then analyzed whether it fulfilling specified indicators of mastery learning in this study or not.
24 Criteria for Research Scores
No Range of Scores
Interval Percentage Content Mastery
Criteria 1
85 – 100
85 - 100 Very good
2 75
– 84 75
– 84 Good
3 65
– 74 65
– 74 Average
4 55
– 64 55
– 64 Adequate
5 54
54 Low
b. Non Test Instruments
The form of non-test instruments used was observation. It is observed in this case include:
students’ activeness in listening to the teacher explanation and formulating ideas individually. There was also a discussion of activity can
be seen when students discussing, the active students asked each other. In the final stage of learning activities student activeness can be seen when students
express ideas, provide feedback opinion orally or ask a question.
3. Interview
