Qualitative Research Assignment

CHAPTER III

METHOD OF INVESTIGATION

To achieve the goals of the study, this chapter deals with method adopted. This chapter divides into seven parts which are the discussion of object of the study, role of the researcher, type of data, instrument for collecting data, procedures of collecting data, procedures of analyzing, and the technique of reporting data.

3.1 Research Design

This research used a qualitative research as the method since the main objective is to describe the English teachers’ ability in design, develop and implementing authentic assessment based on curriculum 2013 for seventh graders students in English class.

Sugiyono (2011) noted qualitative method is the method of the research that simply looks with intense accuracy

The researcher just only observed and monitored the teaching learning process or took role as complete observer (Creswell, 1994). The researcher used video recorder to record classroom activities and used checklist of classroom observation according to the indicators set in advance in the process of teaching learning.

3.5.3 Documentation

The third was documentation which requires data be examined and interpreted in order to elicit meaning, gain understanding, and develop empirical knowledge (Corbin & Strauss, 2008). Moreover, Based on Creswell (1994), during the process of research, the investigation may collect qualitative documents. These may be public documents (e.g., newspapers, minutes of meetings, official reports) or private documents (e.g., personal joournals and diaries, letters, e-mails.)

In this research, the researcher collected the document such lesson plan, syllabus and students worksheet which related to the implementation of Authentic Assessment based on Curriculum 2013.

3.5.4 Audio-Visual Materials

In this fourth step, the researcher followed Creswell’s theory about qualitative data. The data of this research took the form of photographs, art objects, videotapes, website main pages, e-mail, text messages, social media text, or any forms of sound. (Creswell,

Organize and prepare the data for analysis. This involves transcribing interviews, optically scanning material, typing up field notes, cataloguing all of the visual material, and sorting and arranging the data into different types depending on the sources of information.

Step 2. Read or look at all the data. This first step provides a general sense of the information and an opportunity to reflect on its overall meaning. What general ideas are participants saying? What is the tone of the ideas? What is the impression of the overall depth, credibility, and use of the information? Sometimes qualitative researchers write notes in margins of transcripts or observational field notes, or start recording general thoughts about the data at this stage. For visual data, a sketchbook of ideas can begin to take shape.

Step 3. Start coding all of the data. Coding is the process of organizing the data by bracketing chunks (or text or image segments) and writing a word representing a category in the margins (Rossman & Rallis, 2012). It involves taking text data or pictures gathered during data collection, segmenting sentences (or paragraphs) or images into categories, and labeling those categories with a term, often a term based in the actual language of the participant (called an in vivo