THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CLUSTERING AND BRAINSTORMING TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE THE ABILITY IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT OF 8TH GRADE STUDENTS OF MTS MUHAMMADIYAH 03 KUNDURAN BLORA

The objectives of the study are: (1) To find out the writing ability in Narrative text
of the students taught using Clustering Technique. (2) To find out the writing
ability in Narrative text of the students taught using Brainstorming Technique. (3)
To find out whether or not there is a significant difference in of the writing ability
in Narrative Text between the students taught using Clustering Technique and
those taught using Brainstorming technique. This final project used quantitative
research. the population of this research was the tenth8 grade students of MTs
Muhammadiyah 03 Kunduran . the writer took VII A as control class that consist
of 23 Students, and one class was divided into 2 groups of clustering (12 students)
and brainstorming (11 students) In this research using statistics for analyze data
statistical formulas, specification SPSS 27.0. (1) Writing ability in Narrative text
of the students taught using Clustering Technique showed that mean score of
pretest was 54.17 (Fail) and mean score of post test was 83.33 (Very Good) and
then (2) Writing ability in Narrative text of the students taught using
Brainstorming technique showed that mean score of pre-test was 58.18 (Fail) and
mean score of post-test was 68.18 (Poor). (3) The output of the paired sample t
test (Table 4.18) provides evidence to support the hypotheses in this study. The
decision-making guideline for this test states that if the significance value (Sig.) or
Sig. (2-tailed) is less than 0.05, H0 is rejected, and H1 is accepted. Conversely, if
Sig. (2-tailed) is greater than 0.05, H0 is accepted, and H1 is rejected. In this case, the Sig. value (2-tailed) is 0.002, which is smaller than 0.05 (0.002 < 0.05).
Therefore, H0 is rejected, and H1 is accepted, indicating that clustering and
brainstorming techniques can enhance students' writing skills in narrative texts.
The research found that the means for The processed data in Table 4.17 reveals
notable differences in post-test scores between clustering and brainstorming
techniques. In the clustering technique, the lowest score is 70, with an average
score of 83.33. On the other hand, the brainstorming technique yields a lowest
score of 60 and an average score of 68.18. These findings indicate that the
clustering technique has been more effective in improving students' narrative
writing abilities compared to the brainstorming technique.
Keyword: Writing Skills, Narrative Text, Clustering and Brainstorming
Technique