Module 6 Components of Research

INITIAL ACTIVITY
Read the research article of Dangan (2015) entitled “Correlation of Teacher Education
Graduates’ Academic Performance, Licensure Examination Performance, Type of Work and
Waiting Time for Job Search” and fill out the matrix below.

What is the objective of the study?

The relationships of the teacher education graduates’ academic performance, rating in the
licensure examination for teachers, type of work and waiting time for job search.

What is the research design?

Descriptive-correlational research design

What are the variables included in the study?

Academic Performance and rating in the licensure examination for teachers.

What is the hypothesis?

Directional
There is a significant relationship in the teacher education graduates’ academic
performance, rating in the licensure examination for teachers, type of work and waiting
time for job search
There is no significant relationship in the teacher education graduates’ academic
performance, rating in the licensure examination for teachers, type of work and waiting
time for job search

ABSTRACTION
In writing hypothesis, why is it important to keep in mind the distinction between the
independent and dependent variables?
The research process is driven by dependent and independent factors, which is why
they are significant. Anything that can change is a variable, as previously described, as
opposed to a constant, and numerous scholars often examine the link between these two
variables.
In your own understanding, what is the most important issue to consider in developing a
research plan? Cite an example for such issue.
One of the most crucial factors in any research is the choice of the research topic. All of
a researcher's efforts in the research are based on their research topic.
APPLICATION
Now, continue working on your research plan that you have started in module 5, this time
you are expected to specify the variables and write your hypothesis.
Specific topic: READING COMPREHENSION OF BACHELOR OF SECONDARY
EDUCATION PROGRAM

Specific questions:
1. How many males and females exceled the post-test material?
2. What is the reading and writing proficiency rate of bachelor of secondary education
program for A.Y 2022-2023?
3. Is the reading and writing comprehension of bachelor of secondary education
program A.Y 2021-2022 has significant effect to their academic performance?

Research methodology:
The study will be conducted with mixed design methodology. Quantitative data and
qualitative data will be collected with the quasi-experimental pre-test and post-test and
control group design. Qualitative data will be collected with a semi-structured interview
form.

Related literature: Reading simply can be defined as a process to understand and get
information from a text. Cohesion is the meaning relation that appears within the text in
order to build connection among the different parts of the text. Understanding the cohesion
can bring the students to get good comprehension in reading. Therefore, in this research,
the researchers want to prove that students’ cohesion understanding can be correlated with
student’s reading comprehension. The purpose of this research is to investigate and to find
out the correlation between EFL Learners’ cohesion and their reading comprehension. The
subjects of this research were the fourth semester students at English education department
of State Islamic Institute of Metro in the Academic Year of 2019/2020. To investigate and
calculate the correlation between those variables, the researchers applies Product-moment
Pearson- correlation. The result of data analysis shows that “r observed” for correlation
between cohesion understanding and reading comprehension is 0.728, after considering the
Product Moment table by using df 30 it can be found that the critical value of r Product
Moment for the 5% level is 0.361 and for the 1% level is 0.463. The data confirmed that
“r observed” is higher than “r table”. Therefore, it can be inferred that there is a positive
and significant correlation between the students’ cohesion understanding and reading
comprehension among the fourth semester students at English education department of
State Islamic Institute of Metro (Henti 2020)

Related studies: In the recent years, educators have found that there are so many different
factors that effects students' performance in science and math classes. Especially reading
comprehension has changed so many traditional procedures in teaching math and science.
It also shows remarkable benefits. This research focuses on the effects of reading
comprehension on mathematics and science achievement. Students' academic performance
on the mentioned classes and their motivation towards those courses will also be the focus
of the research. The research is based on the data gathered from the latest PISA results and
the opinions of secondary school teachers and students. Findings of this research indicate
that there is a correlation between reading comprehension results and student success in
math or science classes. It also indicates that reading comprehension contributes positively
or negatively to the success results in math or science classes. (Akbasli 2021)
Variables: (Identify the independent and dependent variables in your chosen topic)

Reading comprehension: Independent Variable

Academic Performance: Dependent Variable
Hypothesis: (Write your hypothesis)
Directional
There is a significant relationship between their reading comprehension to their
academic performance.
There is a significant relationship between their reading comprehension to their
academic performance.