The Effectiveness of Muddiest Point Technique on Eighth Graders' Grammar Mastery of Simple Past Tense at Tamanan 1 Junior High School

Radliyah, Haniefatur (2024) The Effectiveness of Muddiest Point Technique on Eighth Graders' Grammar Mastery of Simple Past Tense at Tamanan 1 Junior High School. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

HANIEFATUR RADLIYAH, 2024: The Effectiveness of Muddiest Point Technique on Eighth Graders’ Grammar Mastery of Simple Past Tense at Tamanan 1 Junior High School
Keywords: Muddiest Point Technique, Grammar Mastery, Simple Past tense
Grammar is the structured arrangement of words or phrases to form a good sentence in English. One of the grammar materials studied in the 8th grade is simple past tense grammar. Some students have difficulty in learning the simple past tense, therefore, they need an effective learning technique to improve their grammar mastery. Muddiest Point Technique is a method of collecting feedback from students about the material they do not understand, allowing the teacher to provide further explanations specifically on the topics that students find unclear. Although the Muddiest Point Technique is rarely used, it has been proven effective according to several previous studies, as well as stated by Miller (2018) that the Muddiest Point Technique helps make learning time more effective for both students and teachers.
This research focuses on the questions "Is there a significant effect of the muddiest point technique on eighth graders’ grammar mastery of simple past tense at Tamanan 1 Junior High School?" and "How effective is the muddiest point technique on eighth graders’ grammar mastery of the simple past tense at Tamanan 1 Junior High School?" with the aims to determine the effectiveness of the muddiest point technique on students’ mastery of the simple past tense grammar.
The research conducted by using quantitative-experimental research design, with the research sample of VIII D as the experimental group and VIII B as the control group. Both groups consist of 24 students, the experimental class used the muddiest point technique, while the control class used the conventional technique. The research instrument in this study were pre-test and post-test questions, each of the test has 20 questions which were devided into 15 multiple choice tests and 5 cloze tests.
The results of this study showed that the pre-test and post-test scores in the experimental class increased from 32.00 to 76.00 with a significance value of 0.000<0.05, indicating a significant effect of the muddiest point technique on students' mastery of the simple past tense grammar. The mean of post-test scores in the experimental class was 88.67, it was higher than the scores in the control class which was 78.00 with a significance value of 0.001 < 0,05, indicating a significant difference of mean scores between both of the class. The percentage of completeness in the experimental class increased by 100%, from 23 students below the minimum competency standard (KKM) to 0% students under the KKM. Based on the data analysis mentioned before, it can be concluded that Ha is accepted and H0 is rejected, it means that there is a significant effect of the muddiest point technique on eighth graders’ grammar mastery of simple past tense at Tamanan 1 Junior High School in the academic year 2023/2024 with the 100% percentage of effectiveness.

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