Evaluating Eighth Grade Students' Reading Comprehension Proficiency at SMP Trisakti 1 Medan
Keywords:
Reading Comprehension, Students’ AbilityAbstract
The objective of the research is to describe the ability of the eighth-grade students in reading comprehension. This research is quantitative research. The population of the research is the eighth-grade students amounting to 150 students for five classes. As many 50 students are taken as a sample which is randomly taken chosen from each class. The instrument of collecting data was a test. Try out test was done in order to know the item difficulty, validity, reliability of test items. From the real test the writer found that Minimal Criterion Mastery in the subject of English Language was 77, and it was only 5 students got score above 77. It means based on the Minimal Criterion Mastery the eighth-grade students of SMP Trisakti 1 Medan are unable yet on doing reading comprehension. The table shows that the percentage of the ability on reading comprehension is 29.25%. Thus, the students are suggested to study more on the subject reading to do well on the test. The teacher is also expected to give an explanation of the materials for readings.
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