The survey data Processes of Data Collection

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3.8 Processes of Data Collection

As there were three types of instrument used to collect the data, three main data collection processes were conducted in this study. These three processes were administered using different research instruments and followed by different steps. Those processes were the administration of the self-efficacy survey, the classroom observation and the interview.

3.8.1 The survey data

As discussed in the previous section, the survey was conducted during the period of December 2006 – February 2007. In administering the survey, the researcher did not use mailing procedures. Instead he came to the English teacher forum in all districts and municipality in Yogyakarta province and distributed the survey to the members of the forums. These teacher forum meetings were conducted regularly in every district, and were facilitated by the district teacher forum committee. These teacher meetings were parts of teachers‘ professional development and learning in the province. Activities of the teacher forum varied from one district to the other. In general, however, they covered information sessions about government policy, and seminars and workshops on instructional issues. The frequency of the meetings also varied from one district to the other. Mostly they met once a month, except for the Yogyakarta Municipality and Bantul district teacher forums that met twice a month and the Gunungkidul teacher forum that at the time the data were collected only met once in February 2007. 80 In collecting the survey data, the researcher distributed the survey together with the explanatory statement explaining the research in general, including the purposes and the significance of the study as well as contact person for the research. Participants were invited to complete the survey and do it in their own time and at their convenience and then return the survey to the researcher upon completing it. Upon agreeing to participate in the study, the participants were asked to sign the consent form. The survey was given in two versions, the English and the Indonesian versions. The Indonesian version was aimed to support participants‘ understanding in case there were teachers who did not understand words or sentences in the survey. For practical reasons, however, the teachers were asked to complete only the English version. The response rate achieved by this study was eighty one point seven percent 81.7. From the two hundred copies of questionnaire the researcher copied, one hundred and eighty six of them were distributed to teachers during the period of data collection. From the distributed questionnaires, one hundred and fifty two questionnaires were returned to the researcher.

3.8.2 Classroom observations