The Effect of Using Concept Map (CmapTools) Program on The Students’ Achievement in Writing Descriptive Text

Abstract

This research was carried out to investigate the effect of using Concept Map (CmapTools) program on the students’ achievement in writing descriptive text. The method of the research was experimental research method. The population of this study was the eighth (VIII) students of SMP Tarbiyah Islamiyah on Jalan Perintis Kemerdekaan – Simpang Beringin Hamparan Perak in academic year 2017/2018, which consist of three classes. The number of population were 90 students’. The classes were defined into two groups, namely experimental and control group. All the population was taken as sample. The experimental group was taught by using Concept Map (CmapTools) program as media and control group was not taught by using Concept Map (CmapTools) program. The instrument of research was written test. That were writing descriptive text about “elephant”. The finding indicated that > or >2,639. The finding of the research showed that there was a significant effect of using of Concept Map (CmapTools) program as media has a significant effect on the students’ achievement in writing descriptive text because was higher than ( >2,639). It meant that alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. The students’ difficulties by using Concept map (CmapTools) program on the students’ achievement in writing descriptive text are the students needed a little time when they are asked to understand the diagram of CmapTool, the students were not able to use the infocus when the researcher asked to help the researcher. And the facility of the school did not support to use the media as CmapTool. when the electricity was off.