CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Place and Time of the Research
1. Place of the Research
This research was conducted at National Senior High School 9 Kota Tangerang Selatan which is located on Jl. Hidup Baru No. 31, Serua Raya
Ciputat 15614 - Tangerang Selatan.
2. Time of The Research
The writer conducted the research from 20
th
– 26
th
of February 2013.
B. The Subject of the Study
The subjects in this study were the Second Grade of Natural Science Students of National Senior High School 9 Kota Tangerang Selatan which is
divided into three classes i.e.: Natural Science 1, 2, 3. The writer took only one class from all classes as the subjects of the research. It was the Second Grade of
Natural Science 1.
C. Research Design
The writer design this research in a case study. Furthermore, as it is stated by Meriam, Yin, and Stake in Bogdan and Biklen
‟s book a case study is explained as detailed examination of one setting, or a single subject, a single depository of
documents, or one particular event.
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It means that a case study is a detailed study of one or at most a few individuals or other social units, such as a classroom, a
school, or a neighborhood. It also can be a study of an event, an activity, or an ongoing process.
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Robert C. Bogdan and Sari Knopp Biklen, Qualitative Research for Education: an Introduction to Theories and Methods, Boston: Pearson, 2007, p. 59.
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Bogdan proposed general design model of a case study as a funnel. The detail of the model is as follow:
1. The researchers look for possible place and people that could be subject or source of data.
2. The researchers find the location that they want to study, then try to check the feasibility of the data source for their purposes.
3. Look for clues on how researchers might proceed and what might be feasible to do.
4. Begin to collect data, reviewing and exploring them and make decision about how to do the study.
5. Decide how to distribute their time, who to interview and what to explore in great detail.
6. The researchers may leave the old idea with the exception and plans and develop new ones.
7. The researchers continually modify the design and choose procedures as they learn more about the topic study.
8. In time, the researchers make a specific decisions on what aspect of the setting, subject or data source they will study.
9. The researcher make questions. 10. The data collection and research activities narrow to particular sites,
subjects, materials, topics, questions, and themes. 11. The researchers move to more directed data collection and analysis.
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Whereas, the writer used qualitative method. Bogdan and Biklen state that qualitative is descriptive. The data collected take in the form of words or pictures
and seldom involve numbers.
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Bogdan and Biklen. Loc. Cit.
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Ibid., p. 5
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