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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This chapter discuss the methodology conducted in this study. There are seven parts in this chapter, namely research method, research participants, research setting, data gathering techniques, research instruments, data analysis technique, and research procedure.

A. Research Method

This study of investigating students’ perception is a survey research. To investigate those aspects, the researcher identifies variables and analyze the relationships among them without manipulating the variables. In this survey research, questionnaires and interview are used to gather the data and information from groups of individuals. The questionnaire is done to measure the percentage of students who feel developed in some aspects of leadership skills because of the learning process in Play Performance Course while the interview is concerned with description to have a deeper understanding of students’ perception. According to Altman Hodgetts 1985, interview can be used as exploratory devices to help understand the variables in question. An interview allows participants to explain the reason of their answers in questionnaire. Hence, this method was chosen by the researcher because the respondents can express what the students actually felt and thought. In survey research, investigators ask questions about peoples’ beliefs, opinions, characteristics, and behavior Ary et al., 2010. In this study, the research PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI permits the researcher to summarize the characteristics of different groups or to find out students’ perception on the effect of learning process in Play Performance Course on the development of students’ leadership skill.

B. Research Participants

The respondents of this research were seventy six students of Play Performance Course batch 2013. The students were in the sixth semester when the researcher gathered the data and they had experienced Play Performance Course in the previous semester. They have taken Play Performance Course in the odd semester academic year 20152016. Since the researcher did a survey research, they were provided with questionnaire to be filled and some of them were interviewed. Four students from the respondents who had filled the questionnaire were chosen to be interviewed by the researcher. Those interviewees were in different division or job in their Play Performance project to find out the different perspectives on each division. The first respondent was one of six directors, one is taken from the production division, and the others were from artistic division while one of them was the master of ceremony of the event. There is only one student taken from each division because most respondents have similar responses in the questionnaire.

C. Research Setting