coded to generate initial categories and to suggest relationship among categories. This is to determine the students’ technique in manipulative skills during the execution of the tasks. The consistency of the observation was examined as a whole. The researchers began the analysis on small part of the data in order to generate a set of initial categories. For instance if one excerpt is given the label ‘accuracy’, the researchers examined the observation data for other relevant excerpts that should be given the similar code. If reference was made to the same category again, the excerpt relating to the ‘accuracy’ were compared and contrast in order to find out what the commonalities, differences, and the dimension of the highlighted code. During this stage, it was kept in mind on the issue of suitability of the codes used for the observation data. During analysis, questions such as, what are the characteristics of each excerpt in the same categories? What characteristics do excerpts with the same code have in common? How are all the excerpts related? Were the excerpts constantly addressed? (Boejie, 2002).