The objective of this study was to find out the effectiveness of QAR
strategy towards reading comprehension on reading text at IX grade Science
students of SMA Darul Hijrah for male. The samples of this research were the IX
grade Science students of SMA Darul Hijrah for male. The IX Science II class as
the experimental class.
The research used pre experimental research method in conducting the
research. The research used saturated sampling as the technique of the sampling.
This research was employed one-group pretest-posttest design, it is no
randomization and no control class because the score other class are very
differices. Data analysis was conducted by using t-test with the help of SPSS
version 23 to test the hypothesis.
The result showed that different mean score of students’ reading
comprehension before being taught using QAR strategy was 61.67. Meanwhile,
the mean score of students’ reading comprehension after being taught using QAR
strategy was 73,67. The result of counting score using T-test showed that tcount
(6.378) > ttable (2.758). The result of calculation indicated that Ha was accepted
and Ho was rejected. The finding showed that the QAR strategy was effective to
improve the students’ reading comprehension.