CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND FINDINGS
I. Research of Methodology A. Objectives of the Research
The objective of the research is to find out whether there is any significant difference on students’ reading comprehension achievement
taught by using jigsaw technique and without using jigsaw technique.
B. Place and Time of the Research
The research of this study was held at MAN 02 Bekasi which is located on Jl.Bojong Asih V Perum Taman Narogong Indah Bekasi. The
writer did the research to the second year students from July 28
th
2008 to August 21
st
2008.
C. Method of the Research
This study is a kind of controlled and experimental class with administering a pre and post treatment test whereas the writer gave pre-
test before the material had been given and post-test in the last meeting in both of classes. The writer will conduct several meeting in teaching
reading comprehension. In the first meeting, the writer gave reading comprehension test to the students, called pre-test. After several teaching
and learning reading comprehension by using jigsaw technique, the students will have a test again, called pot test. To see the effectiveness of
this technique to the students’ reading comprehension achievement, the writer uses the comparative technique. The writer compares students post
test scores in both experimental and controlled class to see whether there are students’ gain scores before and after the treatment.
D. Population and Sample
The population of this research is all of the second year students of MAN 02 Bekasi which is divided into 3 classes, namely XI IPS 1, XI IPS
2 and XI IPA 1. The writer used XI IPA 1 as the class of test of validity. The class consists of 33 students. Meanwhile the other classes are used as
the experimental and controlled classes. It means that the writer used XI IPS 1 as the experimental class which is taught by using jigsaw technique
and XI IPS 2 as the controlled class whish is taught without using jigsaw technique. Both of the 2 classes consists of 33 students. From each of the
classes, the writer took 24 students as sample because there were several students who did not come to the class in every meeting. Therefore, the
writer only took 24 students as the sample because of the students’ attendance to the class.
E. Instrument of Research
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