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THE EFFECT OF USING THINK ALOUD PAIR PROBLEM SOLVING (TAPPS) ON THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT AT SMP ISLAM GUMUKMAS JEMBER
No full textReading is one of the crucial and essential aspects in learning a language.
However, based on the preliminary study conducted by doing an interview with Mrs.
U, the English teacher of the eighth grade at SMP Islam Gumukmas Jember, on 14
July 2014, she admitted that the students were still lack of concentration and had
difficulty in comprehending the text. There are many techniques that can be applied
in teaching reading comprehension. One of the techniques that can be applied in
teaching reading comprehension is Think Aloud Pair Problem Solving (TAPPS).
TAPPS is a cooperative learning technique that encourages problem-solving skills by
verbalizing one’s thoughts to a listener. TAPPS is believed to have many benefits in
reading comprehension. Therefore, the researcher was interested in investigating
whether or not there is an effect of using TAPPS strategy on the eighth grade
students’ reading comprehension achievement at SMP Islam Gumukmas Jember.
The population of this research was all groups of the eighth grade students’ of
SMP Islam Gumukmas Jember in the 2014/2015 academic year; they were VIII A,
VIII B, VIII C, and VIII D. The research respondents were determined by cluster
random sampling by lottery. Based on the result of homogeneity test, VIII B was
chosen as the experimental group and VIII C as the control group. The treatment was
given to the experimental group, that was, teaching reading by using TAPPS
technique, while the control group was taught reading using lecturing and Question-
Answer technique.
The primary data of this research were collected from the students’ scores of
reading comprehension test (post-test). The primary data were analyzed statistically by using t-test formula through SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences)
program. Based on the output of Independent sample t-test, the value of significant
column was 0.043 which was lower than 0.05. Thus, conclusion could be drawn that
there was a statistically significant mean difference between the experimental and
control groups. It means that the null hypothesis (H0) formulated: “there is no
significant effect of using Think Aloud Pair Problem Solving (TAPPS) technique on
reading comprehension achievement of the eighth grade students of SMP Islam
Gumukmas Jember” was rejected. On the other hand, the formulated hypothesis (Ha):
“there is a significant effect of using Think Aloud Pair Problem Solving (TAPPS)
technique on reading comprehension achievement of the eighth grade students of
SMP Islam Gumukmas Jember” was accepted
There were some difficulties that the researcher faced when conducting the
research. Some students were shy to think aloud because the researcher tried to pair
the students randomly. Thus, the students were unable to think aloud effectively.
With regard to that condition, the researcher let the students chose their own partners.
Some students were also unmotivated to do the task given by the researcher and were
very noisy. The researcher then created a competitive atmosphere by giving rewards
to the best pairs who scored the best among the other students. For the noisy students,
the researcher asked them to control their voice.
Based on the result of this research, it was concluded that there was a
significant effect of using TAPPS Technique on reading comprehension achievement
of the eighth grade students at SMP Islam Gumukmas Jember in the 2014/2015
academic year. Knowing the significant effect of using TAPPS technique, it is
suggested to the English teachers, students, and other researchers to have a good use
of TAPPS technique
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Pengaruh Padatan CaCO3 terhadap Konversi Reaksi Na2SO3 dan O2
No full textPengaruh Padatan CaCO3 terhadap Konversi Reaksi Na2SO3 dan O2
Siswanti dan Priyo Waspodo U.S
Jurusan Teknik Kimia, FTI, UPN “Veteran” Yogyakarta
Jl. SWK 104 (Lingkar Utara) Condongcatur, Yogyakarta (55283)
Abstrak
Gas O2 dalam reaksi antara Na2SO3 dan O2 mempunyai kecenderungan untuk cepat naik meninggalkan cairan sehingga konversi reaksi yang diperoleh rendah. Untuk itu perlu diupayakan menghambat laju O2 segar agar tinggal lebih lama dalam cairan. Adanya penambahan padatan CaCO3 dalam reaksi ini diharapkan dapat menghambat laju O2 dalam cairan sehingga dapat meningkatkan konversi reaksi.
Percobaan dilakukan dalam kolom terbuka berbentuk silinder sebagai reaktor. Kolom diisi dengan Na2SO3 yang sudah dilarutkan dalam air dan CaCO3 dengan jumlah tertentu dan divariasikan. Gas O2 dengan laju alir 1 liter/menit dan tekanan 1,01 atm, digelembungkan melalui dasar kolom. Metode percobaan yang digunakan adalah tidak tunak, yaitu dengan mengamati perubahan konsentrasi Na2SO3 dalam kolom. Percobaan dihentikan pada waktu yang telah ditentukan.
Hasil percobaan ini menunjukkan bahwa semakin besar jumlah padatan CaCO3 yang ditambahkan, maka konversi reaksi antara Na2SO3 dan O2 semakin besar. Konversi yang diperoleh dari percobaan ini untuk kisaran penambahan CaCO3 dan Na2SO3 adalah 0 – 20 gram serta 10 – 40 gram adalah 3,3047 – 47,7632 %
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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