Setting of the Study

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

A. Setting of the Study

This setting of the study was SMP Negeri 3 Kartasura which is located at Jl. P. Diponegoro 64 Telp. 0271 780034 Kartasura. It is near the main street of Jl. Solo – Semarang. Therefore, the students are easy to arrive at SMP Negeri 3 Kartasura. They usually ride bicycle or public transportation which can exactly stop in front of the school to reach there. SMP Negeri 3 Kartasura is also near to public services. On the east side, there are SMP Kristen Kartasura and store selling notions. On the west side, there are Telecommunications a public corporation and iron shop. In front of the school, there is a main highway that connects from Solo to Semarang and across the street there are store selling notions and iron shop. Behind the school, there are a village and housing which are integrated together. SMP Negeri 3 Kartasura has complete facilities that support the teaching and learning activities. There are language laboratory, computer laboratory and science laboratory. Those three laboratories are used for students in supporting the teaching and learning activities. There are also many books in the library. The students can only find the lesson books and here is magazine also provided. There are also basketball court and volley ball court. They are located in the middle surrounded by the school buildings. In the east edge of the court, there is a 42 commit to users parking area for the guests. There is an UKS symbol in the south side of teachers’ room. The mosque is located on the east side of class VII-A. This school has also two garages that are used for the teachers and the students. The garage for teachers is located in front of class IX-A, B, and C. while the garage for students is located on the east side of class VIII-C until class VII-A and it is also located east side of Administration room until class IX-H. There are three canteens and two toilets. The toilets are separated for teacher and students. The weather in SMP Negeri 3 Kartasura is mild since there are enough trees around the buildings. Although the school is beside the main highway of Solo- Semarang, the teaching and learning activities is not disturbed since the students have become accustomed to this condition. In addition, there are several extracurricular provided, such as, football, basket ball, swimming, dance, karate, chess and many others. Each extracurricular is guided by an advisor. Football, basketball, and dance are given on Saturday for two hours. Karate and swimming are given on Thursday and Tuesday at 03.00 p.m till the ends. Some students who join extracurricular have shown their achievements in some competitions such as calligraphy in 2009 and to be a model student in 2004. SMP Negeri 3 Kartasura has perspectives and missions. The perspectives are “Unggul dalam mutu and Santun dalam perilaku.” The missions are “Optimilisasi Kegiatan Belajar Mengajar, Meningkatkan Pelayanan Bimbingan dan Konseling, Meningkatkan dan Menumbuhkembangkan Ketrampilan, and Meningkatkan Keimanan dan Ketaqwaan kepada Tuhan Yang Maha Esa.” In commit to users addition, SMP Negeri 3 Kartasura is also stated as SSN Sekolah Standar Nasional which has an important and influential role to develop students’ education and it is stated by National Education Department. It consists of three grade classes. Every grade is divided into eight classes. Each class usually consists of 33-37 students. It means that it is a big class for teaching and learning process. This research was conducted started from started from March up to July 2010. The schedule was as follows: Table: 3. The Description of Time Research NO DESCRIPTION TIME MAR 2010 APR 2010 MAY 2010 JUN 2010 JUL 2010 1 Preliminary Observation √ 2 Designing Research Proposal √ 3 Developing Research Instrument √ 4. Giving Treatment and Collecting Data √ √ 5 Writing Research Report √ √ 6 Collecting Research Report √ commit to users

B. Subject of the Study