Place and Time of the Study Research Method

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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

A. Place and Time of the Study

The research was conducted in MTs NW Penedagandor, at the eighth grade students in the academic year of 20102011. The research was exactly started in September 2010 until June 2011. The schedule of activities can be seen in table 1. Table 3.1. Time Schedule of the Research. No Month, year Activities 1. September - December 2010 Consultation and writing proposal 2. December 2010 - January 2011 Arranging the research instrument and consultation 3. February 21 st 2011 Trying-out questionnaires of interest 4. February 22 nd 2011 Try-out the reading test 5. February 23 nd - 4 th March 2011 Analyzing the result of try-out and consultation commit to user 46 6. March 5 th - April 2011 Doing the research 7. Mei 2 nd - 14 th 2011 Cultivating and collecting research data 8. May 16 th - 31 st 2011 Consultation the result of the research. 9. June 2011 Writing the research report

B. Research Method

The method applied in this research was an experimental method. Experimental research is a research in which the researcher manipulates the independent variable, as stated by Johnson and Christensen 2000: 23, the purpose of experimental research is to determine cause-and-effect relationships. The experimental research method enables us to identify causal relationships because it allows us to observe, under controlled conditions, the effect of systematically hanging one or more variables. In line with the above elaboration, Nazir 2005: 63 states that an experimental study is a study that is conducted by manipulating the research object. The purpose of an experimental study is to investigate the effectiveness between a certain treatments to experimental class and to control class as the comparison. Thus, the independent variable in experimental research is commonly called as experimental variable or treatment variable. Meanwhile, the dependent variable is known as the outcome variable. commit to user 47 Referring to this research, the writer chose the experimental research method because this research was related to the effectiveness of teaching model used as the independent variables and interest as the attribute variable in teaching reading skill for the eighth graders of MTs NW Penedagandor This research involved three kinds of variables namely independent variable, dependent variable, and control variable. The independent variable of this research was the teaching model. The teaching model were the factors of this study which were manipulated, measured, and selected to know the effect and the relationship to the phenomenon investigated. The teaching model used in this study were test taking teams and direct instruction model. These two different models were related differently for the groups of students. In this way, the test taking teams group of students function as experimental group and direct instruction model of students function as control group. Furthermore, the dependent variable of this research was students’ reading skill for the eighth graders of MTs NW Penedagandor in the academic year of 20102011. The control variable of this study was students’ interest in learning. This variable was also assumed as the secondary independent variable to the phenomenon investigated. In this study the writer is interested to investigate the effect of independent variable X or teaching models on dependent variable Y or reading skill, in which the relationship between X and Y is influenced by the attribute variable Z or students’ interest.

C. Population, Sample, and Sampling