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involvement as the monitor, as an advocate in economy, as the motivator and as the model is suffi
cient to support the students’ English achievement.
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However, of all four previous researches drawn, this study has four big differences from them. Firstly, this research used a quantitative approach
employing correlational method to know the correlative calculation between the variables and so it differs this study from the previous study which mostly using a
qualitative approach. Secondly, the parents ’ involvement in this study was
narrowed down into two kinds of involvement which are based at home and based at school as it was ada
pted and adopted from Schute’s journal article. Thirdly, neither academic performance nor academic achievement, the researcher tried to
narrowed the study and only used a cognitive achievement from three academic achievements in the school -cognitive, affective and psychomotor, to specified the
academic achievement. The last, the study was quite different from the research done by Fitriah AB because the researcher used more data -an open ended
question about parents’ perception toward their contribution to their children’s academic achievement, to triangulate the correlative result.
In conclusion, the researcher had done more varied techniques and data to research the correlation between parents’ involvement and student’s English
learning achievement to provide the readers deeper about this issue.
D. The Research Descriptive Hypothesis
The influence of parents’ involvement to the cognitive achievement in English lesson should be about 75-
90 because parents’ have a very close related relationship to the students’ daily lives.
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Fitriah AB, The Correlation between Parents’ Involvement and Students’ English
Achievement A correlational study at the eighth grade students of MTs Negeri Tangerang II Pamulang, UIN Jakata: 2009, Unpublished Skripsi.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Place and Time of the Research
This study was conducted in Sekolah Menengah Pertama SMP Ibu Pertiwi. It is located at Jl. Let. Jend. S. Parman Kav. 69, Slipi, Jakarta Barat, DKI
Jakarta. The research was carried out on 2 June 2014 to 11 June 2015.
B. Research Design
This writer used quantitative research method in conducting this research. “Quantitative research is a type of educational research in which the researcher
decides what to study; asks specific, narrow questions; collects quantifiable data from participants; analyzes these numbers using statistics; and conducts the
inquiry in an unbiased, object manner.”
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It means the writer collected and analyzed the data statistically from the questionnaire distributed and students
report book of second semester to find out the correlation between parents’ involvement and student’s English learning achievement.
Further, this research is categorized into correlative method. Gay stated that “correlational research involves collecting data in order to determine whether,
and to what degree, a relationship exists between two or more quantifiable variables”.
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The correlative method used by the researcher is to describe and measure the degree of relationship between two or more variables or sets of score.
In this research, the two variables are independent variable and dependent variable. The independent variable X in this study is parents’ involvement while
student’s English achievement will be dependent variable Y.
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John W. Creswell, Educational Research, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008, p.46
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L. R. Gay, Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Application, 3
rd
Ed., Ohio: Merril Publishing Company, 1987, p. 230.
