The Effect Of Technical Note-Taking Procedure On The Students’ Achievement In Writing Skill

Abstract

This is an experimental research which applied descriptive quantitative method. This study was conducted as an attempt to discover the effect of technical notetaking procedure on the students’ achievement in writing skill. This research was conducted at SMP Muhammadiyah 02 Medan, with the population were seventh grade students. Two classes were taken as the experimental class, consisted of 22 students, and control class consisted of 22 students. By total sampling which then divided into two groups, namely Experimental group and control group. The instrument used in this research is writing test. The result showed that the students’ score of the experimental group were significantly higher than the students’ score of the control group at the level of significance α = 0,05 with the degree of freedom (df) is 42 , t test 7.1079 is higher than t table 2.018. In other word technical note-taking procedure on the students’ achievement in writing skill has a significant effect on the students’ achievement in writing, so hypothesis showed that Ho was rejected and Ha was accepted.