QUESTION AND ANSWER RELATIONSHIP AND READING COMPREHENSION DEVELOPMENT AMONG THE SOPHOMORE NURSING STUDENTS

Abstract

The research was administrated to answer the question “is there any significance
improvement after they used the Question and Answer Relationship reading strategy?”
The data were collected through pre-test and post-test, administered to 29 students and
the data was analyzed by using T-test.
From the computation of the pre-test and post-test, the result showed that the
participants’ comprehension achievement was improved through QAR strategy and the
score gained by the participants showed that there was a significant effect of QAR
strategy. It is strong enough to improve the students’ reading comprehension. The
achievements showed that mean difference between pre-test and post-test is 8.7. The
tcounted = 6.37 > ttable = with significance level in 0.00. Standard error mean of the pretest
is 1.15446 and post-test is 0.77600.
The researcher hopes that the finding of present study could give some contribution to
the improvement on the teaching reading especially for the faculty of Education at
Universitas Advent Indonesia.