E. Data Collection Techniques
Data collection technique used pre-test and post-test. A pretest provides a measure on some attribute or character that assess for participants in an
experiment before they receive treatment, while posttest is conducted after treatment.
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The pre-test was given to both groups of experimental and controlled in order to findout student abilities in reading comprehension of exposition text
before giving treatment using blended learning. After the treatment, post-test was distributed into both classes, the function of this post-test was to find out whether
any improvement in reading ability between experimental class which had been given treatment with controlled class which was not deserve any treatment.
F. Procedure of Intervention
Before doing the research, the writer asked the subject teacher which class was appropriate for the writer to cunduct the research. Since she only teached
social class then she proposed XI social 2 adn X1 social 3 as the sample for reserach. From her suggestion the writer chosed those class and chosed XI social
2 as the experiment class and XI social 3 as a control class. Each group attended two meetings per week except day off. The duration of
the research was six meetings including pre-test and post-test. The first meeting was for pre-test, the second to fifth meetings were for giving intervention, and the
last meeting was for post-test. In addition, the writer’s roles in this study was the
one who given intervention or treatment for experimental group and controlled
group.
Here as the sport the online meeting the writer used quipper school.
Through this learning platform, students got additional online materials telling about exposition
text, online assignment about exposition text and facilitated with online messaging if they wanted to ask, then those were integrated with face-to-face
learning activity. Students got print feedback after doing online learning and discussed it in face to face meeting in order to develop students reading
comprehension skill.
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John W.Creswell, op.cit, p. 297