IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL BY USING PORTFOLIO ASSESSMENT METHOD AT THE ELEVENTH YEAR STUDENTS TEHNIK KENDARAAN RINGAN (TKR) OF SMKN 2 PALOPO

ABSTRACT
Minarsih, 2013. Improving Students’ Writing Skill By Using Portfolio Assessment
At The SMKN 2 Palopo. Thesis, English Study Program Department in the
State Collage for Islamic Studies (STAIN) Palopo. This thesis supervised by
Amalia Yahya, S.E., M.Hum as the first supervisor and Wisran, S.S., M.Pd as
the second supervisor.
Key words : Improving, Writing, and Portfolio Assessment
This research entitled: Improving Students’ Writing Skill By Using Portfolio
Assessment at the SMKN 2 Palopo. This research aimed to find out whether or not
the use of portfolio assessment method improve the students in writing skill at the
eleventh year students of SMKN 2 Palopo.
This researcher employed pre-experimental method. The population of this
research was taken from the eleventh year students TKR of SMKN 2 Palopo,
especially in class X TKR by using total sampling technique. The number of sample
was 20 students. In collecting data the researcher used pre-test, after that the
researcher gave treatment with four meeting and the last the writer gave post-test.
Having analyzed the data, it was founding out that the students writing skill
through portfolio assessment at the eleventh year students of SMKN 2 Palopo. There
was a significance difference between the result of the pre-test and post-test, where
the mean score of post-test 83.75, which was greater than the mean score of the pre�test 56.5. From the ttest value 4121 was greater than ttable 1.73. It means, null
hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. So, it can
be said that the students’ writing skill got improved through portfolio assessment to
the eleventh year students of SMKN 2 Palopo.