Data from Listening Comprehension Tests 1 The Pre-test Result
Table 4.8The Results of T-test of the Pre-Test Scores on Listening Comprehension in the Experimental and Control Class
Data T
observed
T
table
df p
α
Interpretation
Pre-test 0.642
4.01 58
0.524 0.05
Not Significant From the table above, it can be seen that t
observed
t
table
0.644.01 with p 0.520.05. Therefore, the null hypothesis is accepted. It means that there is no
difference on the students listening comprehension between experimental and control class before the research or the treatment is given. Although the mean
score of the experimental class is higher than that of the control class 63.8362.16, the difference is not significant. In other words, the classes have
almost similar ability in listening comprehension and they are proper to be used for the experimental research.
2 The Post-Test Result
The data obtained from the post-test of the control class Appendix 11 show that the minimum score is 50 and the maximum score is 95. Moreover, the
mean value is 71.3, the mode is 70, the median is 70, and the standard deviation is 10.3. The results of the data analysis are presented in the table of descriptive
analysis below.
Table 4.9Descriptive Analysis of the Post-Test Score on Listening Comprehension of the Control Class
N Minimum
Maximum Mean
Mode Median
Std. Deviation 30
50.00 95.00
71.3333 70.00
70.0000 10.33352
Moreover, the data of the post-test of control class is also displayed in categories or score criteria. As previously mentioned in the pre-test score
categories, there are five categories to classify the scores. They are very good,
good, fair, poor , and very poor. The results of the categorization can be seen
below.
Table 4.10Frequency Distribution of the Post-Test Scores on Listening Comprehension of the Control Class
No. Score
Frequency Category
Absolute Relative
Percentage Cumulative
Percentage
1 88 - 100
2 6
6 Very Good
2 76 - 87
5 17
23 Good
3 64 - 75
18 60
83 Fair
4 52 - 63
5 17
100 Poor
5 0 - 51
Very Poor Total
30 100
The table shows that there is nostudent classified into very poor category. Then, 5students are classified into poor category. There are 18 students in fair
category, 5 students in good category and 2students classified into very good category. After the sequence of teaching-learning process in control group, there
is some sort of change on the score attainment of listening comprehension test. The post-test results show that most of the students in control group were
rangedfrom fair to very good category. The data of listening comprehension post-test are also obtained from the
experimental class Appendix 11. The descriptive statistics of the post-test data from experimental class is presented in the table below. From the table below it
can be seen that the minimum score is 65 and the maximum score is 100. The median, mode and standard deviation are 85, 80 and 10.09 respectively.
Meanwhile, the mean score of the post-test in experimental class is 84.2.
Table 4.11Descriptive Analysis of the Post-Test Score on Listening Comprehension of the Experimental Class
N Minimum
Maximum Mean
Mode Median
Std. Deviation 30
65.00 100.00
84.17 80.00
85.0000 10.09296
In addition to the table above, the data from the post-test of experimental class are presented in score criteria. There is no student cassified into very poor
and poor category. In addition, 8students are classified into fair category, 10 students are cassified into good category and 12students are classified into very
good category.
Table 4.12Frequency Distribution of the Post-Test Scores on Listening Comprehension of the Experimental Class
No. Score
Frequency Category
Absolute Relative
Percentage Cumulative
Percentage
1 88 - 100
12 40
40 Very Good
2 76 - 87
10 33
73 Good
3 64 - 75
8 27
100 Fair
4 52 - 63
Poor 5
0 - 51 Very Poor
Total 30
100 Most of the students in experimental group, after the treatment, obtained
satisfactory scores which ranged from fair to very good category and no student is classified into poor and very poor category. The range that the students obtained
in experimental class in the post-test is the same with that of the control group from fair to very good category. However, the highest frequency of score in
experimental class is in very good category while in control class is in fair category. In addition, in control class, there were still 5 students who were in poor
category while in experimental class there was no student included in this category.
To make the result of the post-test clearer, the descriptive statistics of the post-test of control and experimental class are also compared. The comparison can
be seen in the table below.
Table 4.13The Comparison of Descriptive Analysis of the Post-Test Scores between Experimental and Control Class
Class Minimum Maximum Mean Mode
Median Std. Deviation
Cont. 50.00 95.00
71.3333 70.00 70.0000
10.33352 Exp.
65.00 100.00
84.17 80.00
85.0000 10.09296
In the table above, it can be seen that the mean score of the control and experimental class is different. The mean score of the experimental classis higher
than that of the control class 84.271.3. However, a further statistical analysis needed to be done to know whether the mean is really different or not. This was
done by using independent-samples t-testsee Appendix 16. Before calculating the data, the pre-analysis of normality and homogeneity was done see Appendix
18. Here is the result of the normality test of control and experimental class.
Table 4.14Normality Test of the Post-Test Scores on Listening Comprehension in the Experimental and Control Class
CLASS Kolmogorov-Smirnov
a
Statistic df
Sig. SCORE
cont. .149
30 .089
exp. .118
30 .200
The requirement for judging that the data is in normal distribution is if the value of p or sig. is greater than =0.05. From the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, the
significance value shows that the data both in control and experimental class are in normal distribution 0.090.05 and 0.200.05. The homogeneity test is then
conducted. The results of the homogeneity test is presented in the table below.
Table 4.15Homogeneity Test of the Pre-Test Scores on Listening Comprehension in the Experimental and Control Class
Levene’s Test for Equality of Variances F
Sig. score
Equal variances assumed .108
.743 Equal variances not assumed
The requirement for judging that the two classes are homogenous is if the value of p or sig. is greater than =0.05. From the Levene’s test, the significance
value shows that the samples variances of the two classes are homogenous 0.740.05.
After knowing that the data are normal and homogenous, a t-test is conducted to test whether there is any significant difference of the pre-test scores
in both classes before the treatment was applied. SPSS 17 computer program was used to analyze the hypothesis and the data. In hypothesis testing, H
1
is accepted if the value of p0.05 or t
observed
t
table
. So, Ho is rejected and H
1
is accepted. The result of t-test is presented in the following table.
Table 4.16The Results of T-test of the Post-Test Scores on Listening Comprehension in the Experimental and Control Class
Data T
observed
T
table
df p
α
Interpretation
Pre-test 4.866
4.01 58
0.000 0.05
Significant From the table above, it can be seen that t
observed
t
table
4.874.01 with p 0.000.05. Therefore, the null hypothesis is rejected. It means that there is a
difference on the students listening comprehension between experimental and control class after the research or the treatment is given. The mean score of the
experimental class is significantly higher than that of the control class 84.271.3.