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Miftahul Jannah, 219021. “The Effect of Using Student Team Achievement Divisions (STAD) towards Students’ Reading Comprehension on Narrative Text at The Tenth Grade of MAS Miftahul ‘Ulumi Syar’iyyah Canduang”. A Thesis, English Education Study Program. State Islamic University of Sjech M. Djamil Djambek Bukittinggi, 2025. This research was due to discover the effect of Student Team Achievement Divisions (STAD) towards students’ reading comprehension on narrative text. There were some problems that researcher found during the preliminary research. First, the students have a low reading comprehension ability. Second, the students have low reading interest. The students felt that reading is a boring activity. Last probem is, the teacher applied a monotonous method that is lecture method in the teaching and learning process. This research was an experimental research. The method used to explore in this research was a quasi-experimental design by using pre-test and post-test control grup design. The population of this research was the tenth grade students at the school consisted of 41 students. The sample was X1 consisted of 20 students as the experiment class and X2 consisted of 21 students as the control class. The reading test was used as the research instrument. The researcher utilized SPSS version 26 to analyze the data. In addition, the researcher conducted an independent sample t-test to determine the effect of using STAD method toward students' reading comprehension The result of the research showed that there was significant effect of using STAD method towards students’ reading comprehension on narrative text. It has presented by using statistical of independent sample t-test where Ha is accepted when Sig. (2-tailed) 0,05 and H0 rejected. Based on the result the Sig. (2-tailed) was 0,025 0,05 it means that Ha is accepted. In addition, there was significant difference of the students' reading comprehension between using STAD and without using STAD. It can be seen from the statistical of paired sample t-test, where Sig. (2-tailed) was 0,000 0,05. It can be concluded, H0 not accept. Furthermore, the mean score of the post-test experiment class and control class was 74,25 > 66,19. It can be concluded, Ha is accepted and H0 is rejected, where there is a better use of Student Team Achievement Divisions (STAD) than using lecture method.