The Effect of Using Roundtable Technique on the Eighth Grade Students' Writing Achievement at SMPN 1 Wuluhan Jember in the 2014/2015 Academic Year

Abstract

This research was intended to know whether or not there was a significant effect of using roundtable technique in cooperative learning on the eighth grade students’ writing achievement. The design of this research was quasi experimental research with nonequivalent-group post-test only design. The respondents of this research were two classes of the eighth grade students of SMPN 1 Wuluhan in the 2014/2015 academic year. Those two classes were VIII-B as the experimental group and VIII-H as the control group that were determined using cluster random sampling by lottery. As the result of the homogeneity test analyzed using ANOVA formula showed that the result of F test was non significant which meant that the population was homogeneous. The data collection methods of this research used were the writing test, interview and documentation. The results of the writing test showed that the mean score of the experimental group was 60.69 and the control group was 53.21. The result of the writing test analysis using SPSS independent sample t-test was also showed that there was a significant mean difference of the students' writing achievement between the experimental and the control groups. The result of the t-test analysis with significant level of 5% was higher than that of t-table (0.830>0.035). Then, the value of significant (2-tailed) column t-test table was 0.035 and it was lower than 0.05 (significant level of 5%). Based on those results, it was concluded that the use of roundtable technique had a significant effect on the eighth grade students' writing achievement at SMPN 1 Wuluhan Jember.