scholarly journals A Comparative Study on Teaching Reading Through Thinking Aloud Pair Problem Solving and Problem Posing Model

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Aziz Mustolih ◽  
Abdul Asib ◽  
Kristiandi Kristiandi
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Problem Posing ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Thinking Aloud ◽  
English Class ◽  
Significant Difference

<p>This research compared the implementation of Thinking Aloud Pair Problem Solving (TAPPS) and Problem Posing Model (PPM) in teaching and learning process of reading in English Class at the eleventh-grade students of SMA IT Nur Hidayah, Sukoharjo. This research intends to find out (1) whether there is a significant difference of post-test result on reading comprehension between students taught using TAPPS and those taught by using PPM; and (2) whether TAPPS is more effective to teach reading than PPM. The method used in this research is quantitative through the experimental approach in order to analyze the data. The research was conducted in April 2017 until May 2017. The eleventh-grade students of SMA IT Nur Hidayah, Sukoharjo which consists of 148 students were used as the population of the research. The sample consists of 2 classes which for each consists of 24 students. The sample is XI IPA 1 as the experimental group and XI IPA 3 as the control group. The sampling technique is cluster random sampling. The data are collected by conducting a reading test and analyzed by using t-test formula. The result of the research shows that: (1) there is a significant difference in students’ reading comprehension taught using TAPPS and those taught using PPM; and (2) TAPPS is more effective than PPM to teach reading for SMA School? students.</p>

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SUBTITLE VIDEO AND PICTURE SERIES ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF PROCEDURE TEXT AT HEALTH STUDENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF ADIWANGSA JAMBI

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-87
Author(s):  
Resi Silvia
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Nursing Program ◽  
Control Group ◽  
First Year ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Procedure Text ◽  
Experimental Group

The current study aimed to compare between using subtitle video and picture series in teaching and learning process towards health students‘ reading comprehension. The research was carried out in 2018-2019 academic year in University of Adiwangsa Jambi, Indonesia. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the sample. One class was selected as sample from first year of nursing program. Totally 36 students were divided into two groups (one experimental group and one control group). Then, a pre-test of reading comprehension was administered to assess the students’ reading comprehension. The students of experimental group used video files to improve their reading comprehension while the control group using picture of teaching reading comprehension. In the end of the meeting, all the students were assigned multiple-choice reading comprehension post-test and fulfilled some questionnaires to measure their reading motivation. In order to test the significance between the groups, the independent samples t -test was used. The results of the research showed a significant difference between the students who were learned by using video that was more successful than the students who were learned by using picture. Based on the findings, it indicated that video materials had significant effect on promoting health students’ reading comprehension.

scholarly journals The Effect of List-Group-Label Strategy on Students’ Reading Interpretative Comprehension

INTELEKTIUM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-121
Author(s):  
Afore Tahir Harefa
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Label Strategy

Reading at the level of interpretive understanding is a student activity to respond, get information and meaning by making inferences and reading between the lines of the reading text. This study reveals the problems, namely: students are not able to identify content words such as verbs, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs from the text, students lack vocabulary, students are not able to answer comprehension questions from the text by applying the List-Group-Label Strategy in the teaching and learning process. reading narrative text. The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not there was a significant effect of List-Group-Label Strategy on Students' Reading Comprehension in Narrative Text. This research is a quasi-experimental design. The population in this study were junior high school students and the sample was class VIII students which consisted of two classes as the experimental class and the control class. Each class consists of 30 students. Researchers selected samples using saturated sampling technique. The instrument used in data collection is a written test. Next, the researcher gave a pretest and posttest to the experimental group and the control group to determine the normality of the data and the homogeneity of the sample. After conducting the research, the researcher analyzed the data and produced hypothesis testing, the t-count was 5.067 and the t-table was 2.002. While t-count (5.067) > t-table (2.002), it can be concluded that Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted. In conclusion, there is a significant effect of the List-Group-Label Strategy on students' reading comprehension in narrative texts

scholarly journals The Effectiveness of Smart Kit in Enhancing Students’ Mathematical Process Skills and Achievement in Mathematics

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S3) ◽  
pp. 191-196
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Treatment Group ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Mathematical Achievement ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Process Skills ◽  
Teaching Aids ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Mathematical Process

The utilization of teaching aids is crucial in enhancing students’ mathematical process skills. However, teachers give less accentuation on this aspect of usage which leads to students’ low competence in mathematical process skills. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a developed teaching aids, in particular, a Smart Kit in enhancing mathematical process skills and achievement among selected primary school students in Hulu Kinta, Perak. The experimental method was used in this study. Cluster sampling was used to select the samples. The samples were divided into two groups, the control and treatment groups which each consisted of 36 respondents. The treatment group was engaged with the developed Smart Kit while the students in the control group followed the conventional method of teaching and learning. Measurement and Geometry topics at primary school level were selected and students’ mathematical process skills were assessed based on Malaysia Assessment and Curriculum Standard Documents. The findings revealed that there was a significant difference in problem solving, reasoning and connecting skills between the control group and the treatment group. Furthermore, the mathematical achievement of the treatment group was higher than the control group. In conclusion, the utilization of the developed Smart Kit enhanced students’ problem solving, reasoning and connecting skills, and improved mathematical achievement. In implicative insinuation, the use of the developed Smart Kit can help teachers and students in teaching and learning processes specifically on the topics of Measurement and Geometry.

scholarly journals THE USE OF INSTAGRAM TO DEVELOP STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY

Akademika ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (01) ◽  
pp. 97-107
Author(s):  
Amelia Nurdiansyah ◽  
Tryanti R. Abdulrahman
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Alternative Hypothesis ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
T Test ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Discrimination Power ◽  
Control Group Design ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Difficulty Index

The research consists of two variables, namely the independent variable (Instagram) and the dependent variable (writing ability). The aim of this research is to find out whether or not the use of Instagram is effective in teaching writing Descriptive Text. The population of this research was all grade ten students at SMAN 3 Bekasi, consisted of 370 students divided into 10 classes. The sample of this research was 74 students divided into 2 classes, taken from the population using Cluster Random Sampling Technique. This research used the Quasi Experimental Method, and the design was randomized post-test only control group design. To collect the data, the writers used instrument. The instrument consists of 10 question items in an essay. They were developed from the indicators of writing as specified in BluePrint. To get a good instrument, it was tried out to other classes outside the sample classes, and the instrument was analyzed in the item of its validity, reliability, difficulty index, and discrimination power by using Ms. Excel 2010. After it has been analyzed, it gained 5 items which were used to collect data for the research. The writers used a T-test to find out whether the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted or rejected. The result of this research presented that there was a significant difference of Instagram on students’ writing ability at SMAN 3 Bekasi. The significance (Sig.) score of T-test 0.000 is lower than (<) 0.05. Therefore, the research had a significant difference in Instagram on Grade Ten Students’ Writing Ability at SMAN 3 Bekasi. In addition, Instagram helped the students to develop their writing, and also, it can ease the teaching and learning process.

scholarly journals Identification of Senior High School Students' Problem-Solving Skill on Static Electricity Based on Gender

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 208
Author(s):  
Nurul Atqiya ◽  
Dibyaratna Sy. ◽  
M. Pathurrozi ◽  
Sentot Kusairi
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Male Students ◽  
P Value ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
School Students ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Significant Difference

This research aimed to identify differences in problem solving skill between male and female students. The research subjects were 50 students (21 male and 29 female) who were taken by random sampling technique from two high schools in Malang. The research instrument was adapted from problem solving instruments of Maries & Singh (2018). The data was analyzed by statistic descriptive and Kruskall Wallis test (p-value <0.05). The results showed that overall, there was no significant difference between male and female students (p-value>0.05). However male students performed better than female students on preparing the action (p-value<0.05). The results of this research can be a consideration and input for practitioners of education to improve the quality of education, especially in Indonesia.

scholarly journals Morphological Instructional Packages as Determinants of Inferring Word Meanings in Reading Comprehension among Secondary School Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Julius Olaitan Akinwumi ◽  
Olagundoye Christanah Olubunmi
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
English Language ◽  
Academic Ability ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Word Meanings ◽  
And Control ◽  
Senior Secondary

This study investigated the effects of morphological instructional packages as determinants of inferring word meanings in reading comprehension among secondary school students in Ekiti State. The study adopted pre-test, post-test and control quasi-experimental research using two experimental groups and one control group with a sample of 270 Senior Secondary II students selected from nine public senior secondary schools using multi-stage sampling procedure, stratified random sampling and purposive sampling. The selected schools were assigned into three major groups, with each group made up of three schools of 30 students per school (two experimental groups and one control group). Three instruments were adapted, validated and used for data collection for the study namely: Morphological Production Task on Students’ Academic Ability (r = 0.74), Morphological Analysis Task of Students’ Academic Ability (r = 0.83) and Achievement Test in Comprehension (0.75). Data collected were analysed using Mean, Standard Deviation, Analysis of Covariance, Scheffe post-hoc and Multiple Classification Analysis (MCA). The study showed that there was significant difference in the achievement mean score of students in reading English language comprehension between the experimental and control groups. It showed that students exposed to a combination of morphological instructional packages with Eclectic and Problem-Solving methods achieved more in inferring word meanings. It was recommended that teachers of English language should be encouraged to use morphological instructional packages combined with Problem-Solving and Eclectic methods should be given enough orientation through seminars and workshop on the importance of morphological instructional packages combined with eclectic and Problem-Solving methods towards the teaching of languages and reading comprehension in particular.

scholarly journals Improvement of the Concept of Mitosis Instruction to Improve Biological Achievement Among Secondary School Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 164-169
Author(s):  
Akawo Angwal Yaki ◽  
Koroka Mohammed Sanda ◽  
Rabiu Mohammad Bello
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
And Control ◽  
Senior Secondary

The study examined the effects of Improvised Instructional Material Enhanced Biology Achievement among Secondary School Students in Lapai, Niger State. Quasi-experimental design which involved pretest, posttest, experimental and control group. A total of eight five (85) Senior Secondary two (SSII) students randomly selected from two sampled schools formed the sample size of the study. The instrument used for data collection was a researchers’ designed Biology Achievement Test (BAT). The instrument was validated, and pilot tested and yielded a reliability coefficient of 0.75. Two research questions were raised, and two corresponding null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study, the null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significant. The result of the study showed among others a significant difference in achievement score of the experimental and control groups in favor of the experimental group. The finding also showed that both male and female students’ achievements were enhanced equally. It was recommended among others that Biology teachers should be encouraged to improvise instructional materials for effective teaching and learning of Biology.    

scholarly journals Effects Of Problem-Solving Method On Secondary School Students Achievement And Retention In Social Studies, In Ekiti State, Nigeria

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-26
Author(s):  
B.O. Abdu-Raheem
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
School Students ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
And Control

This study investigated the effects of problem-solving method of teaching on secondary school students achievement and retention in Social Studies. The study adopted the quasi-experimental, pre-test, post-test, control group design. The sample for the study consisted of 240 Junior Secondary School Class II students randomly selected from six secondary schools in Ekiti State, Nigeria. The instrument used for the study is the Social Studies Achievement Test (SSAT) designed and validated by the researcher. Section A of the instrument consisted of the bio-data of the respondents while section B was made up of 40 multiple-choice items designed to measure the students achievement and retention in Social Studies. Four hypotheses were raised and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The data were analyzed using t-test and ANCOVA statistical tools. The results showed that there is a significant difference between the achievement mean scores of students in the experimental and control groups. There is a significant difference between the pre-test mean scores and achievement mean scores of students in the experimental and control groups. There is a significant difference between the retention mean scores of students in the experimental and control groups. There is a significant difference between the achievement mean scores and the retention mean scores of students in the experimental and control groups. It was discovered in the study that problem-solving method is more effective than conventional lecture method in improving students achievement in Social Studies. It was therefore recommended that teachers should be innovative in handling their lessons by relating them to the day-to-day life of students in such a way that the students will be challenged to put the lessons to practice as much as possible. Government should also emphasize the use of problem-solving method to teach Social Studies in secondary schools.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Problem-Solving Ability and Students' Characters Based on Islamic Perspectives

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-214
Author(s):  
Syamsul Huda ◽  
Muhammad Syahrul ◽  
Mu'min Firmansyah ◽  
Rahmi Ramadhani ◽  
Andika Eko Prasetiyo
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Mathematical Problem ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Mathematical Problem Solving ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Control Group Design ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Gender Factor

The purpose of this study was to analyze the mathematical problem-solving ability and characters of students who were taught using problem-based learning and ordinary learning based on Islamic perspectives. The instrument used in this study was a test of problem-solving ability and a students’ character questionnaire. This research was a quasi-experimental research with pre-test and post-test control group design. The sample of this research was 84 students from Private Islamic School in Medan, North Sumatera, by using a purposive sampling technique. The data in this research was declared homogenous and normal after being tested using the Levene’s Test and Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test. The hypothesis analyzes used was the Two Way-ANOVA test assisted by SPSS 25. The result showed that there was an improvement in mathematical problem-solving ability and students' characters through problem-based learning based on Islamic perspectives. However, there was no interaction between students' gender and problem-solving ability and character improvement based on Islamic perspectives. The gender factor in problem-based learning was not related to students’ cognitive and affective aspects. Each student with any gender had difference characters, especially related to Islamic perspectives. This research-proven that problem-based learning model had an important role in teaching and learning, and it can be used to improve students' mathematical and character problem-solving ability.

scholarly journals The effects of problem-solving teaching methods on elementary school student’s physics achievement at Dudmegn full cycle elementary school, Ethiopia

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-63
Author(s):  
Asrat Dagnew Kelkay ◽  
Gebremedhin Dagnew
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
School Level ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Lecture Method ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Research Procedure

This study investigated the effects of problem-solving teaching method on elementary school students’ physics achievement at elementary school. In this investigation an experimental research procedure was used. Along with this, a sample of sixty students was drawn from a total of three hundred seventy-eight students using lottery method of sampling technique. Physics achievement test (pre-test and post-test) covering the unit ‘’Introduction to Electronics’’ was used as measuring instrument. Then, based on the pre-test scores, mixed ability groups such as fifteen high and fifteen low scoring 30 students each were assigned as experimental (13Fand17M) and control(15 and15M) groups using lottery method of sampling technique Students in the experimental group were taught using problem solving teaching method while those in the control group were instructed with lecture teaching method. The post-test constructed by the writer in the sample unit taught was administrated to both groups immediately after the treatment was over. Finally, the results of the study revealed that problem-solving teaching method was more effective in teaching physics as compared with lecture method at elementary school level.   Key words: Achievement, Effect, Elementary, Physics, problem    

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