The Effect of Using 3-2-1 Strategy on Students’ Reading Comprehension Achievement

Abstract

This research was an experimental research which was intended to know the effect of 3-2-1 Strategy on the students’ reading comprehension achievement. The research was conducted at SMP Negeri 5 Jember and the all eighth grade students were the participants of this research. Two classes were taken as the samples from the existing six classes by considering the closest mean difference from the homogeneity test result. This happened because the result of One way ANOVA showed that the population was heterogeneous. VIII F was chosen as the experimental group and VIII E was chosen as the control group. In this research, the researcher taught each group twice by using different treatment. The researcher used 3-2-1 Strategy in teaching reading comprehension to the students’ of the experimental group while the control group received no treatment. The 3-2-1 Strategy embodied with a chart consisting three elements; 3 things you discovered, 2 interesting things you discovered, 1 question you still have. The 3-2-1 strategy chart was filled after reading the narrative text given by the researcher. At the end of the treatment, the experimental and control groups did the same reading comprehension post-test. Try-out test was conducted before post-test to the class which belonged to neither the experimental nor the control group that was VIII C. The students’ scores of the try-out test were analyzed its reliability and difficulty index. It aimed to construct a valid and reliable post-test. After conducting try-out test, the post-test was conducted. The students’ post-test scores of both groups were then analyzed by using t-test formula in SPSS computing system to know the significant difference.