Participants of the Study Role of the Researcher
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educational situation happens in MTs Negeri Slawi and MAN Babakan Lebaksiu,
Tegal. The second reason is regarding to the form of data which are going to
collect. The collected data is in the form of videos of the teachers in integrating
and assessing character education in the classes. The videos are transcribed to be
analyzed further.
3.2
Participants of the Study
The participants of this study are English teachers in both MTs Negeri Slawi and
MAN Babakan in Tegal regency. They are considered as qualified teacher
because the have mastered S-1 degree. Due to the focus of this data is the
teachers
’ strategies to integrate and assess character education in English classes,
the students are not included as the object of the research. The research itself is
conducted in August, 2014.
3.3
Role of the Researcher
In qualitative studies, the role of researcher is quite different from quantitative
studies. The researcher can be considered as one of the research instruments apart
from questionnaire, interview and observation. The researcher turns into what we
call with “human instrument”. A researcher can be a good research instrument if
she has a good understanding of research methodology, mastery of knowledge to
the field under study, and readiness to enter the object of research in both
academic and logistics.
Punch (1998) differentiates the role of researcher into two positions. They
are an insider and outsider. A researcher is referred as an insider if she is a full
participant in activity, program or phenomena. It means that the researcher is
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excessively involved in any activities relate to the data collection. For example,
the researcher teach the student by herself using any specific tehnique or media. In
other hand, an outsider occurs when the researcher is not involved in the activity.
In this final project, I am an outsider who responsible to be the data observer,
collector, analyzer, and reporter.
As an observer, I closely observe the teachers in doing their job. Do the
teachers really teach some materials in English subject including character
education on real teaching or not? As the data collector, I take the data when the
participants were enganged in real situation. I, myself record the teacher in
teaching the students. As an analyzer, I am in charge of analyzing some methods
or strategies used by teachers in integrating and assessing character education.
Then, I categorize the data based on the eighteen values from Kemendiknas which
is the criteria of data analyzing. The last, I am responsible to be a reporter. It
means that I need to composed and report the whole result of the research in the
form of final project.
3.4
Type of Data