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THE USE OF PORTFOLIO ASSESSMENT TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT (A Classroom Action Research to The Second Grade Students of SMKN 1 NISAM)
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This thesis entitled “The Use of Portfolio Assessment to Improve the Students’
Ability in Writing Descriptive Text (A Classroom Action Research) to the second
grade students of SMKN 1 Nisam”. Portfolio is a purposeful of collection of
students’ work that demonstrates their efforts, progress, and achievement in given
areas. Focusing on writing as a process and using portfolio as a method of
assessment of writing give the students the confidence to continue to write and
continue to develop their skills and overcome their problems in writing. The
purposes of this research were to know how the portfolio assessment improves the
students’ ability in writing descriptive text and also to investigate the class
atmosphere when portfolio assessment is used in teaching writing descriptive text.
The approach used in this research was qualitative approach and the kind of this
research was collaborative classroom action research. This research was
conducted in SMKN 1 Nisam and the subject of the research was the tenth grade
students which consist of 25 students. In achieving the objectives of the research,
the researcher used a Collaborative Classroom Action Research procedure which
involved four steps, namely planning, implementing, observing and reflecting.
There were two cycles in this research. Both cycles were conducted in three
meetings. The result of the research showed that the students’ average test score
increased from the cycle I until the cycle II. In the pre-test, the students’ average
score was 56.24 and it did not meet the criteria of success. Meanwhile, in the post
test of cycle I, the students’ average score was 62.8, there were improvement in
the post test of cycle I but it still did not meet the criteria of success. Furthermore,
in the post test of cycle II, the students’ average score had increase to be 76.96
and it met the criteria of success. Besides, the percentages score of both the
teacher and students’ activities were improved from the cycle I until the cycle II.
In the cycle I, the percentage score for teacher’s activities were 68.62% and for
students’ activities were 61.25%. It meant that in this cycle the students’ activities
was not success and did not meet the criteria of success. Meanwhile in cycle II,
the percentage score for teacher’s activities were 92.63% and for students’
activities were 88.8%. It meant that in this cycle the students’ activities was
success and met the criteria of success.
Detail Information
| Penulis |
MERRY ANDANI - Personal Name
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|---|---|
| NIP/NIDN/NIM | 112305779 |
| Edition | |
| Language |
English
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| Publisher | FTIK-TEN : IAIN Lhokseumawe., 2018 |
| Edition | |
| Subject(s) | |
| No Panggil |
TEN
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