group members told hisher experience. The next cycle was conducted to overcome these problems and made a better result in improving students‟ ability
in writing narrative texts.
4.2.1.3 Result of Cycle II Test
After doing activity in the cycle II, the researcher gave the test. The test was used to measure the students‟ improvement in writing narrative texts. It was to know
whether their skill in writing developed. The table below described the result of cycle II test.
Mean = Table 4.12 The Writing Scores of X IPA 3 Students of SMA N 3 Sragen
in Cycle II Test Categories of Assessment
Maximum Score
Average Score
Organization 20
16.44 Logical Development of
IdeasContent 20
15.75 Grammar
20 15.62
PunctuationSpellingMechanics 20
16.12 StyleQuality of expression
20 15.44
Writing 100
79.37
Therefore, the result of cycle II test showed the improvement from the cycle I test. Based on the table above, the average score of organization was 16.44,
logical development of ideascontent was 15.75, grammar was 15.62, punctuationspellingmechanics was 16.12, stylequality of expression is 15.44,
and the class average score of writing test in cycle II was 79.37. Whereas the passing grade for English subject is 75.00.
4.2.1.4 Result of Post-Test
After the researcher scored the students‟ post-test, the researcher got data to be
analyzed. The result of students post-test is 82.5. The table below described the
result of students‟ post-test score. Table 4.13 The Writing Scores of X IPA 3 Students of SMA N 3 Sragen in
Post-Test Categories of Assessment
Maximum Score
Average Score
Organization 20
18.75 Logical Development of
IdeasContent 20
15.87 Grammar
20 15.75
PunctuationSpellingMechanics 20
16.44 StyleQuality of expression
20 15.69
Writing 100
82.5
So, the result above indicated that there was significantly improvement. The result of students‟ post-test showed that the highest score was 88 and the lowest
score was 76. In ad
dition, the average of students‟ post-test score was 82.5 gained
from the following formula: Mean =
The mean of students‟ pre-test was 47.5 and the mean of students‟ post-test
was 82.5
. It showed that the mean of post-test was higher than the mean of pre-
test. The increasing point was 35. So, the student
s‟ skill improved significantly in linne with the students‟ motivation after Think-Talk-Write was applied.
4.2.1.5 Students’ Score Improvement
