The Effect of Reciprocal Teaching Strategy toward Pre-College Students' Reading Comprehension and Critical Thinking

Fatimah Firdaus, 20222005 (2024) The Effect of Reciprocal Teaching Strategy toward Pre-College Students' Reading Comprehension and Critical Thinking. Magister thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Sjech M. Djamil Djambek Bukittinggi.

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Abstract

The research explored the impact of the Reciprocal Teaching Strategy (RTS) on improving reading comprehension and critical thinking skills among pre-college students in Kec. Ampek Angkek, Indonesia. Reciprocal teaching is a collaborative learning technique focusing on four key strategies: predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing. The study addressed significant gaps in the reading comprehension abilities and critical thinking skills of Indonesian students, the problems found was the low ability of reading comprehension and students’ struggle to understand even simple story questions highlights a larger problem of disinterest and disengagement with reading. This situation not only affects academic performance but also indicates that Indonesian students were not being given enough opportunities to develop a culture of reading and make them lack in comprehending text and think critically. This research using quasi experimental research with 42 samples. Divided into two group, experimental class and control class. The instrument used were pre-test and post-test to measure the significant effect of the Reciprocal Teaching Strategy toward pre-college students’ reading comprehension and critical thinking. The experiment was attempted in three meetings in experimental class. The paired samples t-test results showed a mean difference of -16.50 with a standard deviation of 14.06 and a standard error mean of 2.22. The 95% confidence interval for the difference ranges from -20.997 to -12.003, and the t-value is -7.422 with a significance value of 0.000. Since the significance value is less than 0.05, it confirms that the difference between the PreTest and PostTest scores is statistically significant. Quantitatively, the findings confirmed the effectiveness of RTS showing significantly better performance.

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