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C. Instruments and Data Gathering Technique
To obtain the data which was needed to answer the research problems, the researcher used many instruments. Those instruments were observation notes,
documents such as video of the teaching presentation, and microteaching students’ reflections paper, and questionnaire. The researcher gave each function and use of
the instrument below:
1. Observation Notes
The observation notes were used by the researcher to write the information about her first observation on the micro teaching students’ teaching practices. The
researcher also wrote the weaknesses and strengths that the respondents made during their teaching practices. Moreover, observation notes also helped the
researcher in the second observation as well as in the second teaching practice of the respondents. In this case, the researcher wrote down her point of view toward
the function of weekly reflection toward the second teaching practice. In this study, the researcher became non participant observer since she did
not take any part in the micro teaching class concerned. As stated by Ary et all. 2002 that non participant observer observes the study without “participating or
taking any active part in the situation”. The data were taken by observing the micro teaching students teaching practice session 1 from April 27
th
to May 9
th
2011. The data which were written in the observation notes were about: what happen during the respondents’ teaching practices, what the weaknesses and
strengths did by the respondents during the teaching practices were. Moreover,
21 observation notes were used again when observing the second teaching practices
of the respondents from May 16
th
to June 1
st
, 2011.
2. Documents
The second instruments were documents. There were two kinds of documents used in this study. They were reflections papers of the respondents and
the respondents’ videos of their teaching practices. The reflections that would be used for analysis were the reflections which were made between the first teaching
practice and the second teaching practice from April 27
th
to June 15
th
2011. The researcher downloaded the respondents’ reflections from the web blog. Therefore,
it was included into primary source documents. Ary et al. 2002 stated that a primary source is a document written by someone who has had firsthand
experience with the phenomenon under study. In this case, the weekly reflection paper was purely made by the micro teaching students after they have the
experience to become students teacher and also participant. While the videos were the respondents’ videos of the first teaching practice and the second teaching
practice.
3. Questionnaire
Furthermore, questionnaire was also used when having the second observation on the second teaching presentation of the respondents. The
questionnaires were made after the researcher analyzed the field notes and matched it to the microteaching students’ weekly reflections. The contents of the
22 questionnaires were the improvements that the respondents should do based on
their weekly reflections which were made during the first and the second teaching practice. The questionnaire was made based on field notes analyses. The
questionnaires helped the researcher to compare whether the respondents improved their teaching skill or not.
D. Data Analysis Technique
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