NAMA : SRI WAHYUNINGSIH ( 2 D )

NPM : 21902073031
MAKUL : QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

CAR (CLASS ROOM ACTION REASERACH)

Classroom Action Research (CAR) is a research that is done by teacher in his/her

own classroom. A teacher is a single research or collaboration with other teachers or experts.
The reason why CAR is done by teacher, because of the problems of her/his class. The
problems relate to the process of learning, not only the difficulty but also everything related
to the process of learning, such as the students’ learning progress, learning environment,
students’ behavior, her/his own instructions, students’ learning problem, which she/he
always assesses throughout the whole process of instruction for the purpose of planning,
implementing and evaluating improvement).
CAR produces an innovative classroom strategy that contributes to the improvement
of teaching-learning practices in schools of the same level. CAR doesn’t produce learning
media.
CAR is a part of activity that can improve the quality of teachers’ instructional
performance by developing innovative instructional strategies to solve their classroom
problems.
The criteria of success in CAR not only focuses on the students’ achievement in
learning English (for example) skill as indicated in score but also creates classroom
atmosphere which gives students joyful learning experiment so that students motivate to
learn everlasting.

Steps in CAR
1. Pre-liminary
- Identify the problems (every things that are needed to be developed not only the score
of students’ achievement, but also the strategy and students’ motivation) in teachers
own classroom.
- Find many resources or other previous researches that related to the strategy which we
want to apply in our classroom.

2. Planning
- Prepare all of the administrative teaching (lesson plan with the students’ worksheet)
- Select one best alternative strategy that we want to apply, observe, and evaluate in our
classroom and it has to be suitable with the problem of our classroom which will be
solved.
- The strategy can be new or modified some existence strategies.
 - The strategy is explained/written down in the steps of learning process (syllabus,
media and material of learning, assessment instrument, criteria of success, instrument
to collect data etc.)
- The strategy is presented clearly in narrative style and it is written in learning guide
book Strategy/manual booklet or video record.

3. Acting
- Teacher as researcher focuses on the description on the context of the implementation,
set the class (how many students are in her/his classroom, the environment of the
classroom), the schedule of the implementation, the existence of observer in the
classroom (collaborate or not), which related to the chosen strategy.

4. Observing
- Collect the data related to the criteria of success. For example, how well does the
strategy being implemented achieve the results to meet the criteria of success?
- Collecting data can be done by taking note or checking data during the learning
process.
- The data must be related to the problem that is being implemented (pre-test – for the
score; motivation ---used observation sheet).

5. Reflecting (determine go to the next cycles because of the data doesn’t reach the
criteria of success or stop / finish because the data meets the criteria of success)
- Evaluate the target and everything which are done based on the collecting data from
the observation.
- If the result of implementation of the strategy does not meet the criteria of success or
cannot solve the problem of our classroom, the instructional strategy is examined
closely to find which part needs to be revised.
- It means that the teachers/researchers have to revise again. Do at the PLANNNG step
by revising everything that are needed to apply the strategy (THE 2nd CYCLE).
- But if the result of the analyzed data meet the criteria of success or can solve the
problem, it doesn’t need to go the next cycles.
- It means that the next cycles will be done if the result of the analyzed data which taken
from observation does not reach the criteria of success.

6. Reporting
- If the target criteria of success are achieved, the researcher report the activities.

The background of the CAR

 The background of the CAR should discuss about the problems that have been
found by the teacher as the researcher. It must be explained detail what problems which
will be solved and explained the strategy that will be implemented to solve the problem.

The problems that are discussed in CAR are:

1. The classroom problem to be solved
2. The strategy to be implemented/developed to solve the problem.

Example: The Implementation of Project Based Learning (PjBL) Strategy to

Improve Students’ Writing Skill.

Research problem:
How can Project Based Learning (PjBL) improve students’ writing skill?

Objective:
This study aims at developing Project Based Learning (PjBL) to improve
students’ writing skill.

Finding and discussion

The finding and discussion in CAR focus on the research result obtained through
the research process. It doesn’t need the explanation of the result or process of each stage.
Because each of the stage doesn’t produce the result. The result of the CAR is produced
by the whole process of stage.

The conclusion of CAR is a manual booklet of the strategy and its strength or
effectiveness.

Significant of CAR is to produce an innovative learning strategy and can solve the
problem of the classroom. The practical significance deepens on
how many other teachers teaching similar subjects get attracted in
applying the strategy in their classroom. “The more teachers
teaching similar subjects get interested in applying the strategy in
their classroom, the higher significance of the CAR result is.”