The Effectiveness Of Students Team Achievement Division In Improving Students’ Ability In Reading Comprehension for The Seventh Grade Of SMPIT Ummu’l Qura Of The 2017/2018 Academic Year

vardi, yoav; weitz, ely.; dr. roslaini, m.hum; nita kaniadewi, m.pd;

GITA DWI YULIYANTI. NIM: 1401065054. The Effectiveness Of Students Team Achievement Division In Improving Students’ Ability In Reading Comprehension for The Seventh Grade Of SMPIT Ummu’l Qura Of The 2017/2018 Academic Year.A paper, Jakarta, The Study Programme of English Education, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. Hamka, 2018.

The purpose of this study was to find out the empirical evidence whether using Student Teams Achievement Division is effective in improving students’ ability in reading comprehension at SMPIT Ummu’l Quro, Depok. The study is conducted in SMPIT Ummu’l Quro Depok in August to September 2018. The population ofthis research is all the seventh grade of SMPIT Ummu’l Qura Depok. It consists of 5 classes with 117 students. The writer decided to take 46 students from 2 classes; they are VIII E and VIII D. The two classes were chosen because the average scores of the pre-test of them were almost equal. The research finding showed that the average score of the experiment class was 84.34. While the average score of the control class was 78.78. The writer used t-test formula to analyze the data. It was used to determine whether there was or there was not a significant difference between the score of the experiment and control class. The calculation on significance level ɑ = 0.05 showed that tobseved was higher than ttable (2.63 ˃ 1.71). Thus, the H0 (Null hypothesis) was rejected and Ha (Alternative hypothesis) was accepted. It means Student Teams Achievement Division is effective in improving students’ ability in reading comprehension at SMPIT Ummu’l Quro, Beji in 2018/2019 academic year.