scholarly journals Reading Performance of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-58
Author(s):  
Jerryk Comawas Alico
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Comprehension Tests ◽  
Reading Comprehension Tests

This causal-comparative research investigated whether reading comprehension performance differs if students read two different texts one that is related to their chosen field of study while the other is not. It also took interest in determining the influence of demographic and academic profile information on reading comprehension. Thirty students enrolled in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Strand of the Mindanao State University-Marawi Senior High School took two sets of reading comprehension tests for four times. The first set used texts whose topics are related to STEM while the second set used texts whose topics are taken from other fields of study like social sciences and economics. Findings revealed that in all four sessions of reading comprehension tests, there was a consistent significant difference between the performances of students in STEM-related and STEM-unrelated texts. Specifically, students performed better in test sets that used STEM-related texts. Moreover, there was no difference in the students’ performance when they were classified according to their gender and age. Interestingly, the curriculum they undertook in junior high school mattered in their reading comprehension performance on STEM-unrelated texts, which showed that students who were trained in science high schools performed better than other students did. These findings forward significant pedagogical implications for the effective teaching of English as well as other subject areas to Senior High School students with respect to instructional and reading materials used.

Think Pair and Share for Junior High School Students' Reading Comprehension

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Siti Nurbaya ◽  
Wahyuni Fitria
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
First Grade ◽  
T Test ◽  
Seventh Grade ◽  
Significant Difference

Abstrak The objectives of this study was to find out whether or not there was a significant effect of the using Think-Pair and Share technique at seventh grade students’ reading comprehension of Junior High School Satu Atap Bertam. This research was conducted at first grade students of Junior high school Satu Atap Bertam. This school is located in Muaro Jambi, there are two classes of seventh grade students, and this school uses school based curriculum. In conducting the research, the writer used the experimental research, and the design of the experimental research was a quasi-experimental research. The result of the research found two things: First, the writer has computed the two means score by using t -test formula; the value of t-test was higher than the value of t-table. It indicated that there was a different on the students’ reading comprehension that was taught by using Think Pair and Share technique. Second, the result of the analysis indicated there was a significant difference between the students’ reading comprehension taught by using Think Pair and Share technique and those who were not. Keywords: Think-Pair and share technique; reading comprehension

scholarly journals A Comparison of Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) and Survey, Question, Read, Recite, and Reviews (SQ3R) Strategy to Improve Reading Comprehension Achievement of Indonesian Junior High School Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 689-695
Author(s):  
Ara Bella
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Repeated Measure ◽  
School Students ◽  
Reading Tests ◽  
Survey Question ◽  
Significant Difference

The objectives of the research were to investigate whether there was a statistically significant difference of the students’ reading comprehension achievement after the implementation of DRTA strategy and SQ3R strategy. Furthermore, the approach used in this research was quantitative. The subjects were 32 students for DRTA group and 31 students for SQ3R group of Junior High school 9 Bandar Lampung. The reading tests were used as the research instrument. In addition, the data were analyzed by using Repeated Measure t-test. The result showed that there was a statically significant difference of students’ reading comprehension with the significant level 0.05. From the result, it is suggested that SQ3R strategy can facilitate students better to improve their achievement in reading comprehension. Keywords: reading comprehension, DRTA strategy,SQ3R strategy.

scholarly journals Teaching Narrative Reading by Using the Sub-text Strategy for Islamic Senior High School Students

Ta dib ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-82
Author(s):  
Muhamad Holandyah ◽  
Nova Lingga Pitaloka ◽  
Wahyudiyanto Wahyudiyanto
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
T Test ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Paired Sample ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Quasi Experimental

The objectives of this study were to find out whether or not there was a significant improvement before and after the treatment on the eleventh grade students’ reading comprehension scores at one Islamic senior high school in Palembang by using Subtext strategy and to find out whether or not there was a significant difference on the eleventh grade students’ reading comprehension scores between the students who were taught by using Subtext Strategy and those who were not. In this study, Quasi Experimental Design using pretest-posttest nonequivalent groups design was used. There were 60 students taken as sample. Each class consisted of 30 students from class XI IPS 2 as control group and class XI IPS 3 as experimental group. In collecting the data, reading comprehension test was used. The test was given twice to both experimental and control groups, as a pretest and posttest. To verify the hypotheses, the data of pretest and posttest were analyzed by using independent sample t-test and paired sample t-test in SPSS program. The findings showed that the p-output from paired sample t-test (sig2-tailed) was 0.000 which was lower than 0.05 and t-value 11.399 was higher than t-table with df=29 (2.0452).  The result of p-output from independent sample t-test was 0.001 which was lower than 0.05, and the t-value 3.465 was higher than t-table with df=58 (2.0017). It means that teaching reading narrative text by using Subtext strategy had significant effect on the students’ reading comprehension scores.

PENGARUH CONTEXTUAL TEACHING AND LEARNING (CTL) TERHADAP PEMAHAMAN MEMBACA SISWA

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Anni Holila Pulungan
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Junior High ◽  
School Students ◽  
Lecture Method ◽  
Contextual Teaching ◽  
Better Than

The study deals with the Contextual Teaching and Learning of the students’ reading comprehension at junior high school. Contextual Teaching and Learning is a new alternative for every teachers to relate the materials to the real world. The aims of the research are to analyze the effect of non and CTL method of the students’ reading comprehension.  The research method is an experimental method. The data analysis is taken from the two classess. Then, they divided into two  groups, the control and experimental group. The major findings of the study shows that the effect of Contextual Teaching and Learning on the students’ reading comprehension is better than the non CTL method-lecture method for the junior high school students.

scholarly journals An Analysis of the Language Patterns of Standardized Reading Comprehension Tests and their Effect on Student Performance

1974 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 353-366
Author(s):  
Eugene Jongsma
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Oral Language ◽  
Standardized Test ◽  
Fourth Grade ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Fourth Grade Students ◽  
Language Patterns ◽  
Comprehension Tests ◽  
Reading Comprehension Tests

A random sample of passages was drawn from standardized reading comprehension tests for fourth grade students. The number and types of language patterns found in the test passages were determined through a method of linguistic analysis. The patterns identified on the tests did not reflect the patterns used most frequently in the oral language of fourth grade children. When the test passages were rewritten using a larger percentage of high frequency oral language patterns, and administered to comparable groups of students, no significant difference in comprehension performance was observed between those students taking the revised test and those taking the intact standardized test passages.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document