Research Methodology Arifian Rosyadi 2201408042

38 CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

3.1 Research Methodology

In achieving the objective of this study, I used qualitative descriptive analysis as the research methodology. The aim of the qualitative descriptive analysis is to find out the teacher’s perception toward the application of Question Writer quiz maker for testing reading comprehension. According to Burns and Grove 2003:201, descriptive research “is designed to provide a picture of a situation as it naturally happens”. Descriptive research can be either quantitative or qualitative. AECT 2001 wrote in their website that “descriptive research does not fit neatly into the definition of either quantitative or qualitative research methodologies, but instead it can utilize elements of both, often within the same study. The term descriptive research refers to the type of research question, design, and data analysis that will be applied to a given topic. Descriptive statistics tell what is, while inferential statistics try to determine cause and effect.” Glass Hopkins states in AECT 2001 that descriptive research involves gathering data that describe events and then organizes, tabulates, depicts, and describes the data collection. If the researcher need to describe the data, then heshe should use the descriptive method. The description functions as a tool to organize data into patterns that emerge during analysis. Those patterns can aid the mind in understanding a qualitative study and its implications. There are a number of researchers who believe and support the fact that ‘qualitative descriptive’ is a viable and acceptable label for a qualitative research design. While phenomenology, grounded theory, and ethnography also are descriptive qualitative approaches, by nature, they are not exclusively in the descriptive domain because they also tend to explain phenomena. Thus, a basicfundamental qualitative descriptive design is a valuable method in and of itself. Clinton Vicky 2012. The goal of qualitative descriptive studies is a comprehensive summarization, in everyday terms, of specific events experienced by individuals or groups of individuals. Qualitative descriptive studies are the least “theoretical” of all of the qualitative approaches to research. a qualitative descriptive study may have grounded theory overtones, because it used constant comparative analysis when examining the data. However, a qualitative descriptive studyis not grounded theory, because it does not produce a theory from the data that were generated.

3.2 Focus of the Study