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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter discusses the method used in the study and divide it into six parts namely research method, research participants, setting, research instrument,
data gathering technique and research procedure.
A. Research Method
The study conducted by the researcher was survey research where the researcher intended to find out the perceptions of the research participants.
Pinsonneault and Kraemer 1993 p. 77 stated that a survey is a method of obtaining information about the characteristics, actions, or opinions of a large
group of people. This research was aimed to find out the perceptions of the clients on the Service Program Design course
student teachers’ teaching skills. This research will focus on the number of data collected from the clients. To be more
specific, this survey study used questionnaires and interviews to obtain deeper perceptions on Service Program Design SPD students
’ teaching skills including their strengths and weaknesses. The reason to select this method is the researcher
could collect the big number of data just in a relatively short time. Regarding the fact that this study had relatively big number of participants, survey research was
chosen to make the process of gaining the data become effective and efficient.
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B. Research Participants
SPD students in the academic year of 2008 had the opportunity to have cooperation with other non-English faculties in Sanata Dharma Universty. The
research participants of this study were the clients of the seventh semester SPD students groups in year of 2012. There were five groups or teams in SPD class,
each group had at least more than ten clients. This study gathered data from all clients of five different learning groups. Each learning group consisted of 10 to 20
clients, providing the researcher with 66 clients in the study. The clients were Sanata Dharma university students who came from different faculties and study
programs. The clients had a similar range of age from 22 to 35 years old because they came from relatively the same year. The purpose of collecting data from all
SPD groups was to have the thorough result of the clients’ perceptions.
C. Research Setting
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