Area Determination Method IMPROVINGWRITING ACHIEVEMENT OF GRADE X-9 STUDENTS AND THEIR ACTIVE PARTICIPATION THROUGH CONTROLLED WRITING TECHNIQUE AT SMA MUHAMMADIYAH 3 JEMBER
are constructed based on the 2006 Institutional Level Curriculum and are consulted first to the English teacher and the consultants.
Meanwhile, McMillan 1992:104 defines reliability as a consistency of scores or the extent to which measures are free from errors. If measurement has high
reliability, it has relatively little errors. To ensure that the result of the test is reliable, inter-rater reliability was applied in this research, which means the writing produced
by the students in the test was fotocopied. Then, the researcher and the English teacher scored the result of the writing test separately.
In this research, the scoring method applied to score the students’ writing was analytical scoring method. Hughes 2003:100 defines analytic scoring method as a
method of scoring which requires a separate score for each of aspects of a task. In this case, there were five aspects that were scored analitically, they were; grammar,
vocabulary, mechanics, organization, and content. In controlled composition test, the focus of scoring was on the aspect of grammar, while in guided composition test the
focus of scoring was on the aspects of grammar, vocabulary, mechanics, organization, and content.
The following table is the scoring criteria to score the students’ paragraph writing.
COMPOSITION PROFILE
ASPECT OF WRITING
SCORE
CRITERIA
CO NT
E NT
16-14
EXCELLENT TO VERY GOOD: Knowledgeable Substantive Thorough development
Relevant to assigned topic
13-10
GOOD TO AVERAGE: Some knowledge of subject adequate range limited development
thesis Mostly relevant to topic but lack of details
9-7
FAIR TO POOR: Limited knowledge of Subject little substance inadequate development of
topic
6-5
VERY POOR: does not show knowledge of subject little substance not pertinent OR not
enough to evaluate
O R
G A
N IZA
TI ON
16-14
EXCELLENT TO VERY GOOD: fluent expression ideas clearly stated supported
succinct well organized logical sequencing
13-10
GOOD TO AVERAGE: somewhat choppy loosely organized but main ideas stand out
limited support logical but incomplete sequencing
9-7
FAIR TO POOR:
non fluent ideas confused or disconnected lack logical sequencing and development