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4.1.1.3 Difficulty Level
The writer used the following formula in finding the difficulty level of each aspect.
Furthermore, the writer also used three categories of level difficulty. They are easy, medium and difficult. According to the computation of difficulty level
Appendix 4, the grammar aspect was considered easy.
4.1.1.4 Reliability
The formula used for computing reliability was
The test is considered reliable if r
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r
table
for α = 5. By using the formula above the computation of instrument‟s reliability was reliable. The computation was
shown in appendix 5.
4.1.2 Pre – test
The writer gave students pre- test because she wanted to know the students‟ ability
before the treatment was given. In this case the pre- test is aimed to find out the students‟ prior ability in writing report. The writer gave pre-test to both of
experimental and control group. The writer held on March 16
th
2011 for experimental group and on March 17
th
2011 for control group. From the analysis of pre-test result, it was found that the average score of
the experimental group was 56 while the control group was 56.6. It meant that
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students‟ achievement of the two groups was relatively the same since there was no slight difference of pre-test score between the experimental and control groups.
In conclusion the students of both experimental and control group had similar ability in writing news item before the treatment was given.
4.1.3 Treatment
The treatment for both experimental and control group was conducted from March 20
th
2011 to March 30
th
2011. The activities in giving treatment for both experimental and control group are as follow:
Table 4.1 Activities in Experimental and Control Group
No Control Group
Experimental Group
1 Pre-test write a news item text
Pre-test write a news item text
2 Discussing generic structure and
language features of news item text.
Discussing generic structure and language features of news item
text.
3 Arranging sentences to make
news item text.using jumbledd sentences
Discussing arrangement sentences
to make news item text.using old and news item construction
4 Discussing passive sentence and
headline in news paper. Discussing passive sentence and
headline in news paper. 5
Post-test write a news item text Post-test write a news item text
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4.1.4 Post – test
Considering the result of students‟ achievement after having been given the
treatment, the post- test was conducted to measure the students‟ achievement. By
conducting post-test, it was to prove the effectiveness of the treatment given. Through the post-
test result, then, it was assumed that the students‟ achievement before and after the treatment was able to be analyzed.
The post-test of experimental group was held on Wednesday, March 30
th
2011 and for control group on Thursday, March 31
th
2011. Based on the post- result, the average score of the experimental group was 72.67 and control group
was 69.73. It shows that the students‟ achievement of the experimental group is higher than the control group.
4.2 Test Result
The students‟ composition was scored using Heaton‟s Grid. The following are the chart showing students‟ average score on both pre-test and post-test, covering
five-elements of the writing scoring system.
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