Interview Questionnaire Research Instruments

E. Data Gathering Technique

The first data of the pre design survey would be gathered based on the interview with the English teachers of SMPN 1 Kalikotes Klaten. It was conducted to get description that was more detailed on the learners’ needs and problem in writing class. The interview with English teachers of SMPN 1 Kalikotes Klaten was done according to the schedule. To collect the data on post design survey, the writer distributed closed and open questionnaires in order to find out the evaluators’ suggestion and opinions in evaluating the designed materials. The evaluators were a lecturer, an English instructor, and three English teachers. The result of the analysis of the data would be used to reconstruct the final version of the design instructional materials.

F. Data Analysis Technique

This research used a combination of closed and open forms of questionnaire distributed to the participants. The data, which were collected from questionnaire in the form of scores, was analyzed. The score was counted to know the participants opinion. The type of questionnaires was intended to assess the opinion of the respondents on the design writing instructional materials. The other data was gathered from open questionnaire in which the respondents were supposed to give their own answers and convey some opinions, criticisms, suggestions, and evaluations on the designed instructional materials. The post design survey was used to make an evaluation on the designing instructional materials and to arrange the final version. The results of the survey can be concluded through four points of agreement to ach statement as illustrated in the table below. Table 3.2: Points of Agreements in the Closed Form Questionnaire Points of agreement Scores Strongly disagree 1 Disagree 2 Agree 3 Strongly agree 4 According to Best 1970: 225, central tendency measurement deals with series of characteristics or scores. The points to be discussed in central tendency are Mean, Median and Mode. The mean or arithmetic average is the average found by adding and dividing it by number of cases. It also can be formulated as follows: ΣX M = N Notes: M = Mean Σ = Sigma Sum of X = Scores N = Number of Scores In this study, Mean Mn is a statistic that is used to find the tendency. The following table presents them clearly.