The Implementation of Student Team Achievement Division (STAD) Technique to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension

This thesis is entitled "The Implementation of Student Team Achievement Division (STAD) Technique to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension ". The aim of the research is to investigate whether the use of Students Team-Achievement Divisions (STAD) technique can help students overcome students’ reading comprehension ability. The sample of this research is the second year students of SMPN 8 Banda Aceh and took two classes; VIII-6 and class VIII-2. To obtain the data, there are two techniques used during doing research; experimental teaching and test. Based on the data obtained, it is found that students in experimental class have better achievement than students in control class. It is proved by the improvement of students’ mean score of post test in the experimental class from 33.25to 58.79, while the improvement score in control class is from 11.36 to27.42. Then, those scores are calculated to get the t-test too. The t-test is 0,953>0,05 and t-table is 0,204 > 0,05. The data showed that t-test is higher than t-table. This indicates that there is a significant difference of score between the experimental class and the control class. From the data above, it can be concluded that the students in experimental class have higher achievement after being taught by using (Students Team-Achievement Divisions) STAD technique.