The Effect of Using Peer Reviewing Technique on Students’ Achievement in Writing Narrative

Abstract

This research was intended to investigate The Effect of Using Peer Reviewing Technique on Students’ achievement in Writing Narrative. Peer reviewing is referred to as “peer feedback”, which is an assessment form performed by equal status learners. In “peer review” a student does more than simply editing and evaluating another student's essay. The objective of this study was to find out the significant effect of using peer reviewing technique on students’ achievement in writing. The population of this study was the eleventh grade students of SMA Swasta AL-FATTAH Medan at academic year 2017/2018. The populations were 56 students which distributed in two classes XI-IPA and XI-IPS. The sample was divided into two groups : XI-IPA as experimental class taught by using Peer Reviewing Technique and XI-IPS as control class taught without technique. The study was conducted by using an experimental research design. Each group was given a pre-test, treatment, and post-test. This data were acquired by administrating an written test which was given in pre-test and post-test. The data was analyzed by using t-test formula. The result of the analysis showed that t-test was higher than t-table (4.61 > 1.67) with the level significant 0.05% and the degree of freedom (df) = 54. The finding showed that the students’ achievement in writing narrative by using Peer Reviewing technique was more significant than those without using Peer Reviewing technique. So, hypothesis of study is accepted. It means that Peer Reviewing Technique gave a significant effect in increasing the students’ achievement in writing.