The Effect of Using Group Work Technique on Students’ Reading Comprehension at the First Year of Senior High School 4 Mandau

Abstract

This research was aimed to find out The Effect of Using Group Work Technique on Students’ Reading Comprehension.  The  design  of  this research was quasi experimental. The population  was the total of tenth grade students that consist of 10 classess. Meanwhile the sample was proportion of the population that consist of 2 classes. X⁶ was experimental class and X⁹ was  control  class.  The  number  of  sample  was  selected  by  using  cluster sampling. To analyze the data the writer gave pretest and posttest then analyzed the data by using independent sample t-test by using SPSS 16 version and effect size formula. After analyzing the data, where the 2-tailed value was smaller than 0.05 (0.000 < 0.05). The result of effect size was 0.3 categorized as large effect. Thus, null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected, and alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. So, it can be concluded that there was a significant effect of using Group Work Technique on Students’ Reading Comprehension