Efficacy of Collaborative Strategic for Reading (CSR) To Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension

Abstract

The purpose of this research or the study was to improve students' reading comprehension skills. Classroom Action Research (CAR) has been used to adopt this research. The research includes five stages, namely preliminary research, preparation, implementation of plans, observation of results, and reflection of results. The research was conducted in three cycles, each cycle being tested for reading comprehension which aims to evaluate student learning outcomes. The subjects of this study were class VIIIC students of SMP Negeri 11 Malang 44 first semester students (2019/2020). The types of data in this study consisted of field notes, observation sheets, tests, and interviews. This type of data is used as the basis for evaluating student achievement in reading comprehension in each cycle. The result of the study showed the implementation of the Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) improved the students’ reading comprehension. As indicated by the increase in the average score of students and the percentage of students who achieve mastery learning to read comprehension descriptive texts in the post test given in three cycles (72 and 77% in the first cycle, 74 and 82% in the second cycle, and 78 and 86% in cycle III). The implementation of CSR in reading comprehension was effective in improving students' reading comprehension skill.