The Use Of Student Team-Achievement Division (STAD) To Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension In Narrative Text

This thesis is entitled “The Use Student Team-Achievement Division (STAD) to Improve Student Reading Comprehension in Narrative Text”. The aim of the research is to investigate whether the use of Student Team-Achievement Division (STAD) can help students improve students’ reading comprehension ability. The sample of this research is the second year students of SMAN 1 Rundeng. The researcher took two classes; XI IPA 1 and XI IPA 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 improvement students’ average score from pre-test to post-test in the experimental class. The averages are from 60,95 to 77,14. While the improvement students’ average score in control class from pre-test to post-test are from 55,79 to 63,16. Then, the researcher is conducting the independent t-test from pre-test and post-test. The result of pre-test is 0,47>0,05. It means that there is no the significant different result between control class and experimental class. While the result of post test is 0,004<0,05. It means that there are the significant different result between control class and experimental class. From the data above, it can be concluded that the students in experimental class have higher achievement after being taught by using Student-Team Achievement Division (STAD) technique.