Improving Students' Questioning Skill Based On Texts At 6th Elementary School Using Internet Based And Problem-Based Learning Technique (A classroom Action Research at PGSD-UNS in 2010/2011)

Murni, Sri (2011) Improving Students' Questioning Skill Based On Texts At 6th Elementary School Using Internet Based And Problem-Based Learning Technique (A classroom Action Research at PGSD-UNS in 2010/2011). Masters thesis, Universitas Sebelas Maret.

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The objectives of the research are: (1) to identify whether or not and to what extent the internet based and problem based learning can improve the students' questioning skill; (2) to describe the situation when internet and problem based learning are implemented in the English class of PGSD-UNS students; and (3) to analyze the strengths of internet based and problem based when it was used to teach in this research This research was carried out at PGSD-UNS Surakarta. It was conducted from October 2010 up to June 2011. The subject of the research was the students of class 3B of PGSD-UNS Surakarta in the academic year of 2010/2011. The research method was Classroom Action Research and it was conducted in two cycles. In collecting the data, the writer used interview, observation, diaries, document, and test. Having collected the data, the writer analyzed them both qualitative and quantitative data, the qualitative data were analyzed using Constant Comparative Method: comparing incident applicable to each category, integrating categories and their properties, delimiting the theory, and making question theory. The quantitative data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics to calculate the mean scores of the pre test, test in cycle 1, and test in cycle 2. The research findings show internet based and problem based learning can improve: (1) The students' questioning skill; the improvement is identified from scores to scores in each cycle. They are: (a) the mean score of types of question patterns increased from 6.54 in pre test, to 7.65 in cycle 1 , and up to 7.84 in cycle 2, (b) the mean score of determine reading indicator 5.17 in pre test, to 6.49 in cycle 1, up to 7.60 in cycle 2, (c) the mean score of accuracy of mechanics 8.40 in pre test, to 8.91 in cycle 1, up to 9.09 in cycle 2, (d) the mean score of determine the level question based on Bloom taxonomy 6.0 in pre test, to 8.47 in cycle 1, up to 8.93 in cycle 2. (2) Classroom situation shows that: (a) The students give attention toward the lesson (b) Students are more active and creative, (c) The English class became more enjoyable. Based on the analysis result, conclusions are drawn as follows: (1) there is improvement of the questioning skill of the students (based on the score), (2) there is improvement of the quality of teaching learning process. For that reason, it is recommended that the English lecturer should

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