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B. Theoretical Framework
Observation sheets as written evaluation has already been used to support teaching learning activities in educational contexts, especially in Microteaching
class. In Sanata Dharma University, the observation sheets are one of the media of teaching assessment in Microteaching class of Faculty of Teachers Training and
Education. The observation sheets are used to measure the students teaching performance. The observation sheets are filled by lecturer as supervisor and peers
as the observers. Then, the students are given the observation sheets as means formative feedback from their peers.
It is obvious that written evaluation form is needed to assess teaching skills performance as Subramaniams findings. And as Glover 2006 in his article
titled Written Feedback for Students: too much, too detailed or too incomprehensible
, says that feedback is effective if students act on it and use the information to improve their future work and learning. It can be concluded that
the feedback will be effective if the students have positive perception towards the feedback itself. Since the way the students perceive on something will influence
the students behavioural responses as Altman, et al. 1985 have argued, it will affect the effectiveness of feedback. If the students perceive the use of observation
sheets in positive way, the students behavioural responses will be positive too, which then will lead to positive teaching and learning activity and will support the
course goal achievement. On the other hand, if the students perceive the use of observation sheets in negative way, the students’ behavioural responses will be
negative and then will inhibit the teaching learning activity and the course goal
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about students’ perception on the use of observation sheets as peer feedback in developing their teaching skills, the feedback and the contribution the students
obtained and students’ recommendations to maximize the use of observation sheet.
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter presents detailed discussion about the methodology employed in this research. This includes the description of the research method, research
participants, research instruments, data gathering technique, data analysis technique and research procedure.
A. Research Method
Since this research is going to explore the students perception on the use of observation sheets in Microteaching classes and to gather any feedback the
students obtained from the use of observation sheets, the method used in this study is a survey research. A survey is a kind of research method for gathering
data ranging from physical counts and frequencies to attitudes and opinions by asking questions of a group of individuals called respondents Ary, Jacobs,
Razavieh, 2002. More about survey research, Wiersma 1995 explains that survey is also used to answer the study, which is related to social and emotional
aspects. Surveys are used to measure attitudes, opinions, or achievements. Survey
research is broad in scope including status quo studies to those in which the relationships of sociological and psychological variables are
determined and interpreted.Wiersma, 1995: 169-170
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