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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter contains reserach methodology. Those are place and time of research, research method and design, population and sample, instrument of the
research, data collection techniques, procedure of intervention, technique data analysis and statistical hypothesis.
A. Place and Time of the Research
This Research was taken a place at SMA N 4 Kota Tangerang Selatan which is located at Jl. WR. Supratman Komp. Pertamina Pondok Ranji, Ciputat Timur,
Kota Tangerang Selatan, Provinsi Banten, on the second semester. Since, the school curriculum only provided 4 meetings in teaching hortatory exposition text.
Then this research was conducted in 4 days treatment, it was started on May 2
nd
2016 and ended on May 23
rd
2016. Below was the table of research agenda: Table 3.1 Time of Research
NO. Agenda Date
1. PRETEST
Monday, May 2
nd
2016 2.
TREATMENT DAY 1 Monday, May 9
th
2016 3.
TREATMENT DAY 2 Thursday, May 12
th
2016 4.
TREATMENT DAY 3 Monday, May 16
th
2016 5.
TREATMENT DAY 4 Thursday, May 19
th
2016 6.
POSTTEST Monday, May 23
rd
2016
B. Research Method and Design
This research used quantitative research method. According to Ary et al, this method involves hypothesis testing and objective data gethering to arrive at
findings that are systematic, generalizable, and open to replication by other investigators.
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Furthermore, Creswell states quantitaive method have some characteristics which are describing a reserch problem through the description of
trends or a need of explenation of the relationship among variabeles; providing a major role for the literature through suggesting the research questions to be asked
and justifying the research problem; creating purpose statement, research question and hypotheses that are specific; collecting numerical data; analyzing trends,
comparing group, or relating variable using statistical data; writing the research report using standard, fixed structure and evaluation criteria.
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Then, this research was conducted to find out the empirical evidence of the effectiveness of using
blended learning model on students reading comprehension. Since this study used quantitaive method, the design was used quasi-
experimental. Quasi- experimental designs are “almost” true experimental designs,
except that the participants are not randomly assigned into group. In quasi- experimental research, the researcher studies the effect of treatment on
experimental and controlled groups.
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This study was conducted to prove whether there was cause and effect between two variables. Those two variables were Independent variable mostly
presented by X which is blended learning and dependent variable mostly Presented by Y which is reading comprehension of exposition text. In this quasi-
experimental design used two groups which were divided into experimental group and controlled group. The experimental group was given treatment which was
blended learning model and the controlled group was not given blended learning model but convensionaltraditional model.
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Donald Ary et al, Introduction to Research in Education, Eigth Edition, Belmont: Wadsworth Cenage Learning, 2010 p. 23
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John W Creswell, Educational Research, Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research, Fourth Edition, Boston: Pearson Education. Inc, 2012 p.
13
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Donna M. Mertens, Research and Evaluation in Education and Psychology Intergrating Diversity with Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Method, Third Edition, California: SAGE
Publication. Inc, 2010 p.138
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