The Effectiveness of Using Group Investigation Method in Teaching Reading Descriptive Text at the Seventh Grade Students of MTs Negeri Prembun in the Academic Year of 2016/2017

Abstract

This research is aimed to find out the effectiveness of using Group Investigation method in teaching reading descriptive text at the seventh grade students of MTs Negeri Prembun in the academic year of 2016/2017. Group investigation method has six strategies. They are topic selection, planning for cooperation, implementation, analysis, presentation and the last is evaluation. The researcher use quantitative research. The population of the study is 253 students’ the seventh grade of MTs Negeri Prembun in the academic year of 2016/2017. The sample was one class, namely VII C is 33 students. This sample is using purposive sampling technique. This research was conducted with giving pretest before treatment and posttest after applying treatment. The data were analyzed by using t-test formula to show the effectiveness of using group investigation method. The result of the research that the mean score of pretest is 82.85 and the mean of posttest is 84.85 and they can be categorized as excellent based the criteria reference scale of Arikunto. It means that the result of posttest is higher than pretest. The result of t-value is -0.465 and then the researcher consult the critical value on the t-table using 5% (0.05) alpha level significance and the degree of freedom is -2.037. It show that t-value is higher than t-table that is -0.465 > -2.037. It means that using Group Investigation in teaching reading descriptive text at the seventh grade students of MTs Negeri Prembun in the academic year of 2016/2017 is effective.