The Description of the Respondents Data Presentation

6. Conducting an Evaluation Survey

This section consists of three points namely: the description of the respondents, the data presentation the respondents’ comments, and suggestions on the designed materials. The objective of this section is to obtain the evaluation and the feedback toward the designed materials. The researcher distributed the materials to be evaluated to some respondents on 18 th January 2011. The results were as follow:

a. The Description of the Respondents

There were three respondents participating in the instructional materials’ evaluation. They were an English teacher from MI MA’ARIF Klangon, Kalibawang, Kulon Progo, an English teacher from SD N 3 Glodogan, Klaten Selatan and an English lecturer from English Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University. All of the respondents had Bachelor’s Degree.

b. Data Presentation

The results of the materials evaluation were presented in descriptive statistics form. There were five points agreements to assess or express the respondents’ opinion on the designed materials. They were classified as follows: 1. = strongly disagree with the statement. 2. = disagree with the statement. 3. = undecided or doubts with the statement. 4. = agree with the statement. 5. = strongly agree with the statement. The results of evaluation were presented in table 4.3. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI Table 4.3 The Descriptive Statistics of the Evaluators’ Opinion No Statements Frequency of the Degree of agreement 1 2 3 4 5 1 The competence standard is well formulated. 33,3 66,7 2 The basic competences are well formulated. 33,3 66,7 3 The indicators objectives are well formulated. 33,3 66,7 4 The topics are well selected for grade fourth of elementary school students. 100 5 The materials are matched with competence standard, basic competences, and indicators. 66,7 33,3 6 The materials are able to help the students to develop their ability in reading English text. 33,3 33,3 33,3 7 The stories are interesting and appropriate for the students. 66,7 33,3 8 The designed materials are well varied to be applied in teaching reading by using children’s stories. 66,7 33,3 9 The level of difficulties is 33,3 33,3 33,3 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI No Statements Frequency of the Degree of agreement 1 2 3 4 5 appropriate for grade fourth students of elementary school. 10 The instructions of the learning activity are explicit and understandable. 33,3 66,7 11 The activities and the exercises are appropriate for the students. 33,3 33,3 33,3 12 The pre activity, the whilst activity and the post activity are well formulated. 66,7 33,3 13 The designed materials can improve the students’ reading skill. 33,3 66,7 14 The use of Cooperative Language Learning CLL to teach reading is well – formulated. 33,3 66,7 15 In general, the designed materials are good and sufficient. 33,3 66,7 The result of the questionnaire showed that most of the scores were 4 and 5. It means that the designed materials were acceptable and appropriate to be implemented for the grade four students of MI MA’ARIF Klangon, Kalibawang, PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI Kulon progo. However, there were two points that needed to be considered. The two points were 1 the designed materials are well varied to be applied in teaching reading by using children’s stories and 2 the pre activity, the whilst activity and the post activity are well formulated. Therefore, the researcher concluded that the instructional materials were acceptable and appropriate, although there were some revisions that need to be conducted in order to improve the designed materials.

7. Revising the Materials