IMPROVING STUDENTS DESCRIPTIVE WRITING ABILITY BY USING PEER ASSESMENT AT EIGHT GRADE OF SMP N 2 SUNGKAI SELATAN IN 2022/2023 ACADEMIC YEAR

ANGRAINI, EKA PUTRI (2023) IMPROVING STUDENTS DESCRIPTIVE WRITING ABILITY BY USING PEER ASSESMENT AT EIGHT GRADE OF SMP N 2 SUNGKAI SELATAN IN 2022/2023 ACADEMIC YEAR. Diploma thesis, UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This present study is aimed to find out whether there is statistically significant difference in students’ writing achievement before and after using peer assessment, and to find out what aspects of writing ability improves the most after the implementation of peer assessment. This research belongs to quantitative research. The research was conducted in six meetings. This research involved 26 students of the seventh-grade of SMPN 2 Sungkai Selatan in academic year 2022/2023. The quantitative data were acquired through pretest and posttest to know the improvement of writing achievement. The results showed that there was a statistically significant difference in students’ writing achievement before and after using the peer assessment. The mean score of the pretest was 60.56 and the mean score of the posttest was 70.41. Furthermore, both of the scores were analyzed through the t-test that was compared with t-table and the result of the t-test score was 8.478, and the result of the t-table score at a significant degree α=0.05 was 2.07. It shows that the t-test score is higher than the t-table score. It was revealed that t-observed was higher than t-table (8.47>2.71) with the significance level less than 0.05 (0.000<0.05). It means that there was a significant difference in students’ writing achievement between the pretest and posttest. As a result, the first hypothesis was accepted. It is indicated that peer assessment strategy was one of the factors which affected the students’ writing achievement of descriptive text. Keywords: Peer Assessment, Writing Competency.

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