The effect of students team-achievement division (STAD) technique on reading comprehension achievement of students with different motivation levels

AbstractThe students had to get the four basic skills of language. One of them was reading. To reach these objective so teacher should use STAD technique. This study was held to investigate whether (1) students who taught by using Student Teams Achievement Divisions technique had better achievement in reading comprehension than those conventional technique, (2) the students who have high motivation have better achievement than those low motivation. (3) there was interaction between the STAD technique and the learning motivation toward the achievement. This research used a factorial design with pre-test and post-test that used experimental and control groups of eleventh grade students of SMA Islam Al MaarifSingosari Malang in academic year 2015/2016. The students reading comprehension scores were taken from a reading comprehension test. In assigning the students with high or low motivation, a set of questionnaire was applied. Pre-test was used to test the homogeneity of the experimental and control group. It was held before treatment. Then to analyse the data of post-test, two-way ANOVA was applied. The result of the data analysis indicatedthat there was dissimilar of achievement posttest between low and high motivation group. The result of this study indicated that students who were taught by STAD technique and had high motivation had better achievement in reading comprehension than those conventional technique. Keywords: reading comprehension, STAD technique, conventional technique, motivatio