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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
A. Research Method and Design
This research was an experimental method. According to Sugiyono 2009: 72, experimental research method was a method that is employed to see
the effect of specific treatment upon the others in a controlled condition. In this study the research class was divided into two, namely Control Class and
Experimental Class. Social 1 as the Experimental Class which learned by using the Internet, while Social 2 as the Control Class, namely class which learned
without using the Internet. Research designs that were conducted are: Pre-test, Post-test, Control Group Design. This designs were organized as follows.
Class Pre-test
Treatment Post-test
C
control
O
1
- O
2
C
experimental
O
1
X
internet
O
2
Picture 2. Research Design
Information: C
control
: control class learned without using the Internet. C
experimental
: experimental class learned by using the Internet. -
: without treatment. X
internet
: treatment by applying learning using the Internet. O
1
: giving Pre-test. O
2
: giving Post-test.
Observation design was given two times, namely before and after experiment. Observation which was conducted before experiment O
1
was called Pre-test and observation which was conducted after experiment O
2
was called Post-test. The difference between O
1
and O
2
was that O
1
-O
2
were assumed as the effect of the treatment or experiment. In the experimental class
the use of social media Facebook as the medium of Uploading and Downloading the learning materials and exercises, students could either browse the answers
from the links that had been provided or browse by themselves instead.
B. Place and Time of Research
This study was conducted in MAN 3 Yogyakarta in XI Social 1 and XI Social 2 which numbered 55 students. This school was located in Magelang
Street Km. 4, Yogyakarta. The study included proposal writing, research implementation, and report writing which was done in April-June 2016.
C. The Operation of Research Variable
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