IMPROVING STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION BY USING QUIPPER MEDIA IN SMAN 1 CIKANDE AT TENTH GRADE STUDENTS

Abstract

The objective of this research is to improve reading comprehension of the tenth grade students at SMAN 1 Cikande through Quipper School. The type of the research was action research. The subjects of the research were 36 students of grade X Science 5 at SMAN 1 Cikande. There were two kinds of the data in this research. They were qualitative and quantitative data. The qualitative data were obtained by doing observation, questionnaire, field notes, and interview. The quantitative data were obtained from the pre-test and post-test. In reference to the actions conducted in two cycles, use of Quipper school media to improve students’ reading comprehension as justified in the following results. First, the process of using Quipper school made the students motivated to do the assignment and evaluating their understanding of the text and students show their enthusiasm and active participation in the teaching learning process. Second, there is an improvement on students’ reading comprehension as displayed in the increase of the gain score by deducting the mean score of the pre-test from the mean score of post-test.