Research methodology in comparing student’s ability

Few days ago, I have written a full-length essay about simple past tense and posted it in this blog. The essay consist of My point of view about Education and the way I teach simple past tense in local school. I have described about my research in previous post and at this time I would like to write about Methodology used in the research. Before I continue writing about the topic, I would explain on what I have done in the past few days.

1. I have written first post in this blog which talk about a research which I have done few weeks ago. The research is titled as “A Comparison in Mastery Simple Past Tense between Students Who take Extra English Course and Who Do Not at First Year of Local Junior High School”. The post contain:
   - Objective of the Research
   - The Hypothesis
   - Significance of the Research
   - Limitation of the Research, and
   - Definition of the Key term
2. Second post explaining about ‘Review of Related literature’. Some related literature pertaining to the research were being explained in this article. ’My Methods in Teaching English for student’ is the title for the second post.
3. Third article define about ‘Education’ and also explain how I teach student. I explained about ‘Teaching Simple Past Tense in local School’. This post is part of ‘Review of Related literature’.

So, we move forward to the next chapter.

METHODOLOGY

What is methodology and why it is important for the research? In simple words, Methodology is just like a tool to evaluate subject and/or object of the research. It is essential to have a methodology while doing research because it consist various procedures to analyze the problem and get the answer out of it.
In this chapter, I would discuss about the method used in this research. The discussion is as follows: Research design, Location of the Research, Subject of the Study, Procedure of Collecting Data and Data Analysis.

Research Methodology in Comparing student's ability

Research Design

The research used the descriptive research in this study. The descriptive research is designed to obtain information concerning the current status of phenomenon and it is directed toward determining the nature of situation as it exists the time of the study and there are several types of studies, developmental studies, follow up studies, documentary and relation studies.
In this research, the writer used a survey based on test and questionnaire. It is also a descriptive qualitative, it means that the data of the writer are presented through words than numbers.
In this study, I use observation to describes the activities done in local school. I use questionnaire to get deeper information about the research.

Subject of the Research

To get the data,  I select subject that represent students in local school. B class of seventh grade students is selected as the subject of the research.

The Instrumentation

The researcher use 2 (two) instruments, they are:
a) Test
b) Questionnaire

Technique of Collecting Data

To collect the data researcher combines two techniques there are long time test and short time test. But the researcher uses two sections, there are pre test and post test. Pre test is use to know how far the students ability before they get treatment. In post test the researcher tries to know the result of the treatment in the test, students choose the true answer (like multiple choices). In this test, researcher uses 10 questions. In the task there are 4 choice answers and student must choose the one right answer. In the last time students cross A, B, C, or D to choose the correct answer.

Procedure of Data Collecting

The question between pre test and post test is similar, because the goal is to know how far the treatment increases the student's ability. In this test, the researcher makes ten multiple choices. And then the researcher makes a final score to arrange the total score of students.

Technique of Data Analysis

After getting the data, it is the time to find proper method to analyze it. There are two methods to analyze the data, Scoring and The use of Percentage.

Scoring

After students finished their test, researcher takes a score then the researcher uses the average technique.
S =  P/S
S = Score average
P = total score
s = total students

The Use of Percentage

After the teacher tests them, he will get a score, then percentage the total score. The goal is to know how far the students have mastered the words. The formula as follow:
G = (S x 100%) / 100

The next step after getting the data is to analyze it using the formula as shown above. Data processing and result of the analysis would be posted in next article.