The steps of peer-assessment

The differentiation of the study with this previous study, the writer prefer to take the sample from the tenth grade student and use quasi experiment as the research design, because the writer thought that the tenth grade students was more eligible to be studied rather than the junior high students and also using quasi experiment was more simple than using classroom action research which is needed more intention to gain the standard of the successful range. 3. A journal “The Impact of Using Peer Assessment to Improve Students’ writing in One AS-level Lesson with Eight Students” by Gillian Boocock. The objective of this research was to examine the impact of using peer assessment to improve students’ writing in one AS-level lesson with eight students. This research was took sample at BSix which was consist of eight students AS Sociology students. Those sample used to be studied after they claimed that they pleasantly to take part in the research. This research used case study for the research method. Actually this journal was a pilot study that will be used as guidance for the next research. Peer assessment has been used as an ongoing learning tool in the class for about five months. This research was doing as collaboration between the class teacher and the BSix research-in-residence. As for giving mark, the students will be guided by the mark scheme of the researcher. In collecting the data, the researcher asked the students to write a brief explanation of two problems of using official statistics in the study of suicide. They had 8 minutes for answering that question. The data also got from the questionnaire that is given before and after doing peer assessment. The result of this study was the students’ score improved after they did peer-assessment. As brief, seven of the eight students improved their final score and felt peer assessment had helped them improved. The maximum score for the exercise was 14 marks. 38 Another article which have done an experiment and focused on how Swedish lower secondary-level students can improve their writing ability by acting as peer reviewers found that the peer reviewers increased their awareness Tanggunggunung year 20112012”. A Thesis of State College for Islamic Studies STAIN of Tulungagung, 2012, unpublished. 38 Gillian Boocock, The Impact of Using Peer Assessment to Improve Students’ Writing in one AS-level lesson A case study of peer assessment at BSix, A Journal of research-in- residence, 2009, pp. 1—16. of audience and genre; the revision acceptance affect their writing. 39 In conclusion, some previous research has point out some result that indicate the positive effect of using peer assessment in improving students writing skill of recount text and point out that there are some advantages of peer assessment in enhancing students interest and motivation in writing recount text. The previous studies used case study and action research methods which mean that the studies are kind of qualitative method. For this research, the researcher is going to study by using quantitative method and with the design is quasi-experimental study.

F. Thinking Framework

There are two variables in this study; they are “Peer-Assessment” as the independent variable and “Students’ writing of Recount Text” as the dependent variable. This study will be focused on the significant different result in using peer assessment toward students writing recount text and whether use peer assessment give a contribution of lifting the knowledge to the students on how to construct a good writing by their own words or not. Writing skill is become more interesting for the researchers in conducting an experiment since writing as a way to communicate with others besides speaking or oral. Although writing skill is learned from the very beginning stage of learning, but the students still cannot make it easily as they speak. Even in writing their own experiences, it is called recount text in English subject. In contrast, this text is seemed easily to construct because they just need to call back their memories and write it down on the paper. Assessment is a main concerning in learning because it is a way of how to know the students’ progress. Moreover in assessing writing, the educator or Teacher need more focus in order to giving a right mark for students’ progress. Then for this study, the researcher use peer assessment in reason of the problem that found in the population pointed out the ineffectively assessment-used in writing. The traditional assessment seemed just give meaningless score for the students while they still have in their stuck knowledge. In the researcher’s belief, the assessment should give more valuable meaning for the students, at least they 39 Jessica Berggren, Learning from giving feedback: a Study of Secondary-level Students, Volume 691 January 2015. A Journal Published by Oxford University Press: 2014. Downloaded from http:eltj.oxfordjournals.org at UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta University on August 14, 2015, pp. 58—70.