The questionnaire in this study is a Likert Type questionnaire which provided the students with five responses option Strongly agree Sangat Setuju, SS, Agree Setuju,
S , Neutral Netral, N, Disagree, Tidak Setuju, TS, Strongly Disagree Sangat
Tidak Setuju, STS. The degree of scale is described as follow:
Table 3.2 The Questionnaire scoring
Scale Affirmative Statement
Score Negative Statement
Score
Strongly Agree 5
1 Agree
4 2
Neutral 3
3 Disagree
2 4
Strongly Disagree 1
5
The questionnaire will be translated into Bahasa Indonesia. This is aimed to avoid the possibility of different perception in understanding the statement. Therefore,
using bahasa Indonesia in the statement will be useful for students to understand and answer the question.
b. Test
The test instrument played an important role in collecting the data. In this research, the writer administered test to the students to know about student English
descriptive reading comprehension score. The writer will use multiple choice types in order to make it more objective to score. The reading material and its question were
selected from students’ book and other sources which was suitable with their level. Here the indicators of descriptive reading comprehension test.
Table 3.3 The Indicators of English Descriptive Reading Comprehension Test
No. Indicator
Key Number
1.
Determining the main idea of the text 1, 8, 37
2.
Identifying the specific information based on the text
4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 16, 19, 20, 22, 23, 26, 29, 30,
32, 33, 34,
3.
Identifying the detail information based on the text
2, 3, 6, 9, 17, 18, 21, 24, 27, 28, 31, 35
4.
Identifying Implicitly stated information based on the text
10, 14, 15, 25, 36, 38, 39, 40
5.
Determining the purpose of the text. 7
Total 40
c. The Validity of Instrument
Validation of instrument is conducted to see whether the instrument is capable to collect the data or not. The writer got the standard coefficient validity minimum for
this instrument with N=35 and coefficient validity is 0.334. To see the validity of instrument, the writer use SPSS 20 to measure the validity of questionnaire and
Anates application to measure the validity of test. In validating questionnaire and test, the writer conducted the research in VIII-5 class of SMP Islamiyah Ciputat.
In questionnaire validity, the writer got 23 items from 40 items. The number of valid item are 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, 31, 33,
36, 39. The number of invalid study are 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 21, 26, 29, 32, 34, 35, 37, 38, and 40. The items that the writer used only 20 items which can be seen as
below.
