Rizki Maulana Sahab, 2014 The Use Of Reciprocal Teaching Procedure In
Teaching Narrative Texts To Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
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and the post-test, administering the pre-test, conducting treatment, administering the post-test, and the questionnaire.
3.2.3.1. Organizing Research Instrument
As the first step, the researcher organized the research instruments that include creating the test items for both pre-test and post-test and constructing
questions for the questionnaire.
3.2.3.2. Testing Validity and Reliability of the Pre-Test and Post-Test
To find out whether or not the items have validity and reliability, the pilot- test, in this case, was conducted in two classes that have been set not to obtain the
pre-test and the post-test. It was administered to XI IPA 1 on Wednesday, October 16
th
, 2013 and also XI IPA 5 on Saturday, October 19
th
, 2013.
3.2.4.3. Administering the Pre-Test
The pre- test was conducted to find out the students’ reading comprehension
in order to determine the experimental and the control groups which have the equal average score according to the result. It was administered to XI IPA 2 and
XI IPA 3 on Tuesday, October 22
nd
, 2013, and to XI IPA 4 on Wednesday, October 23
rd
, 2013.
3.2.4.4. Conducting Treatment
Two groups, the experimental group and the control group, were treated differently. Reciprocal Teaching Procedure was applied in the experimental
group, whereas, Grammar Translation Method was employed in the control group. Despite the teaching method were different, the materials and the context were
approximately the same, as can be seen in the following teaching schedule:
Rizki Maulana Sahab, 2014 The Use Of Reciprocal Teaching Procedure In
Teaching Narrative Texts To Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
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Table 2 Research schedule Day Date
Activity Experimental Group
Control Group
October 16
th
, 2013
Pilot-test -
- October 19
th
, 2013
pilot-test -
- October 22
nd
, 2013
- Pre-test
October 23
rd
, 2013
Pre-test -
October 29
th
, 2013
- Treatment 1
October 30
th
, 2013
Treatment 1 -
November 2
nd
, 2013
- Treatment 2
November 6
th
, 2013
Treatment 2 -
November 9
th
, 2013
Treatment 3 Treatment 3
November 12
th
, 2013 -
Post-test November
13
th
, 2013 Post-test
-
3.2.4.5. Administering the Post-Test
