Figure 3.1 The Screen Preview of Reliability Analysis
9 Click Statistics,
then put check mark √ on Item, Scale, and Scale if item deleted
of “Descriptives for”, then click Continue OK
3.7 Research Activities
There were some activities that the researcher did in her study both in experimental group and comparison group. The research activities could be seen as the following
tables: Table 3.2 The activities of experiment group
No Activity
Week 1 Week 2
Week 3 Week 4
Week 5 1
Try-out 2
Pre-test 3
Treatment 4
Post-test
Table 3.3 The Activities of Comparison Group
No Activity
Week 1 Week 2
Week 3 Week 4
Week 5 1
Try-out 2
Pre-test 3
Treatment 4
Post-test
3.8 Scoring Guidance
Adapted from Brown 2007: 357, the score guide of writing descriptive text was as follow:
Table 3.4 Scoring Guidance Aspect
Score Performance Description Weighting
Content C 30 -Topics
-Details 4
The topic is complete and almost clear and the details are relating to
the topic
3X 3
The topic is complete and clear and the details are almost relating to the
topic
2 The topic is complete and clear but
the details are not relating to the topic 1
The topic is not clear and the details are not relating to the topic
Organization O 20
-Identification -Description
4 Identification is complete and
descriptions are arranged with almost proper connectives
2X 3
Identification is almost complete and descriptions are arranged with almost
proper connectives
2 Identification is not complete and
description are arranged with few misuse connectives
1 Identification is not complete and
description are arranged with misuse connectives
Grammar G 20
-Use present tense Agreement
4 Very few grammatical or agreement
inaccuracies
2X 3
Few grammatical or agreement inaccuracies but not effect on
meaning
2 Numerous grammatical or agreement
inaccuracies 1
Frequent grammatical or agreement inaccuracies
Vocabulary V 15
4 Almost effective choice of words and
word forms
1.5X 3
Few misuse of vocabularies, word forms, but not change the meaning
2 Limited range confusing words and
word form. 1
Very poor knowledge of words, word form, and not understandable
Mechanics M 15
-Spelling -Punctuation
Capitalization 4
It uses almost correct spelling, punctuation, and capitalization
1.5X 3
It has occasional errors of spelling, punctuation, and capitalization
2 It has frequent errors of spelling,
punctuation, and capitalization 1
It is dominated by errors of spelling, punctuation, and capitalization
Score= 3C+20+2G+1.5V+1.5M x 10 4
The following table was the criteria assessment that was used after the students’
works were scored.
Table 3.5 Criteria Assessment
Students’ Mastery Criteria of
Assessment Grade
91-100 Excellent
81-90 Very good
71-80 Good
61-70 Fair
51-60 Poor
Less than 50 Very poor
Harris 1969:134
3.9 Procedures for Collecting Data
