17 d. Field Notes
Field notes aimed to know everything happening in the classroom during the teaching learning process. The field notes were based on what the researcher
saw in the classroom. e. Semi-Structured Interview
The semi-structured interview aimed to check whether students realized the improvement in their listening skill. There were six open-ended questions in
the interview. The researcher interviewed eleven participants to know deeper about what they felt and realized during the research. The researcher chose the
participants randomly. There was no certain reason in choosing the participants to interview.
D. Data Gathering Technique
The researcher used the assessments to obtain the scores from the students. The researcher would measure the improvements from the students meeting by
meeting. It aimed to answer whether students have any improvement from the assessments used.
The second instrument, observation sheet, was used to know what was going on during the class and to obtain feedback so that the researcher could
improve the teaching learning activity in the following meeting. The researcher gave the observation sheet to the English teacher of class X5 to have feedback
from her. The observation sheet format was the same in every cycle. The observation sheet consisted of three parts, the teaching learning activity, the
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18 assessment used by the researcher, and also the situation during the class.
The researcher used questionnaires to obtain information from the students about the use of content-focus assessment. The questionnaires would be given to
32 students of class X5. Then, from the students’ answers, the researcher would analyze the information. From the analysis, the result would show whether the
students realized the improvement in their listening skill after they had content- focus assessment.
The researcher used the field notes to describe what happened in the classroom during the teaching learning process. These field notes were used to
ensure the improvement of students not only by looking at their result from the assessments, but also by observing their responses during the class.
The interview was conducted to eleven participants. The participants were chosen randomly, so that it would be fairer. From the interview, the researcher
obtained more information about what students achieved, felt, and realized after they had content-focus assessment in listening class.
E. Data Analysis Technique The first instrument was the content-focus assessment. The researcher
distributed the assessments on October 18, 2010 and November 1, 2010. The researcher chose that date because the students had just finished their mid-term
test. The next meeting was on November 1, 2010. The problem occurring on those dates was that there was one student who was absent. However, the researcher
analyzed the data by looking at the percentage from the scores, so that it would
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19 not influence the result.
From the assessments, the researcher would check the answers and list the scores of all students. Then the researcher would write the five scores in the form
of table to see the improvement of the students. Then the researcher would measure the percentage of the students who improved in their listening skill.
From the assessment of rewriting, the researcher would list the amount of the information written by the students. Then, the researcher would compare it
with the amount of the whole information in the recording. Then, the researcher would make percentage of it. From the five assessments, the researcher would
write the five percentages into a table to see the improvement of the students. The research would be ended when the criteria of success were reached.
There were four criteria of success in this research. -
More than half of students passed the passing grade of English subject in SMAN 2 Yogyakarta, which is 71.
- The number of students who passed the passing grade increased.
- More than half of students rewrote equal or more than 50 of important
information from the recording. -
The number of students who rewrote equal or more than 50 of important information from the recording increased.
F. Research Procedure
