The effect of using the power of two strategy on students reading comprehension on descriptive text at 1th grade of SMA N 1 Pangkalan
ABSTRACT Nabila Nada Islami, 2318001. The Effect of Using The Power of Two Strategy on Students Reading Comprehension on Descriptive Text at 1th Grade of SMA N 1 PANGKALAN. A Thesis, Islamic University of Bukittinggi, 2022. This research was done due to several problems found: The students ability in reading comprehension was low, the students had low motivation to read the text, and then the students were not interested in learning reading in the classroom, they did not pay attention to the teacher’s explanation. The Power of Two Strategy is related to this problems because the power of two strategy is a part of active learning which is the best way to improve students learning activity. This research was an experimental research. The researcher chose quasi experimental design by using the experimental class and control class. The population of this research was 1 th grade of SMA N 1 Pangkalan. The sample was X MIPA 1 which was as experimental class and taught by using The Power of Two Strategy and X MIPA 2 was treated as control class and taught by using Scientific Learning Approach. To determine the sample, the researcher used cluster sampling because the class have similar characteristic in score of reading test and have similar problems in reading comprehension. To analyzed the data, the researcher used Liliefors test for normality test. Then to hypothesis, the researcher used T-test and Based on the output of Test Statistics, the result of post-test in both classes showed that the obtained significant value or sig. (2-tailed) was 0.000. It means that alternative hypothesis was accepted and the two tailed significant showed that p0.05 (p=0.000). It can be concluded that there was significant differences of students reading comprehension who were taught by using the power of two strategy. In other words, null hyphothesis was rejected and alternative hypothesis was accepted. The result is also indicated by the mean of experimental class post-test score was (85.86) is bigger than the control class post-test score was (61.86). It means that the students who are taught by using the power of two strategy better than the students who are not taught by using the power of two strategy. To sum up, the power of two strategy has a significant effect on reading comprehension on descriptive text at 1th grade of SMA N 1 Pangkalan.