written text were evaluated. Then, the researcher and the collaborator determined the solution of the problems to make the teaching and learning
process better in the next cycle.
G. The Research Data Analysis
Some action plans were implemented in the classroom in some cycles, depending on the research study itself. Besides implementing the action plans,
the researcher and the collaborator also observed and recorded the teaching and learning process, and did the interviews with some students of grade VIII after
the action had been done. All the members were involved in the research discussion based on the actions analysis. The result of the discussion would be
important to serve as an evaluation for the implementation of the action plans to improve the next actions.
In analyzing the data of this research, the researcher used some steps proposed by Burns 1999, 2010.
1. Assembling the data
In this step, the researcher collected the data from the observation and interviews. They were in the forms of field notes, and interview
transcripts. The researcher reviewed and or revised questions and look for broad patterns, ideas or trends that seemed to answer the questions from
the data.
2. Coding the data
In the second step, the researcher reduced the large amount of data to be more manageable categories of concept. It was done to identify which
of the data that can be coded qualitatively and which of the data can be coded quantitatively.
3. Comparing the data
After the researcher finished coding the data, the categories or patterns were compared across different sets of data, for example
interviews compared with field notes, to see whether they showed the same thing or whether there were contradictions.
4. Building meanings and interpretations
In building meaning and interpretation, the researcher think deeper about what can be seen from the data by reflecting beyond the immediate
surface details. To make sense of the data, the researcher analyzed the data several times to pose questions, rethink the connections, and develop
explanation of the situation. 5.
Reporting the outcomes The last step is reporting the outcomes. Here, the researcher was
describing the context of the research, about the way he could present the research and the findings to others and how to organize the whole process
of the research from the beginning to the end not just the analysis and the findings.
Meanwhile, the quantitative data of this research were obtained from the tests conducted. It was analyzed using descriptive statistics in the form of mean.
By comparing the means of the writing tests result given to the students, the researcher was able to see the improvement on the students’ writing ability.
H. Validity and Reliability of the Data
