Journal of Educational Research and Evaluation
Vol 4, No 4 (2020)

A Comparative Study of The Students’ Critical Reading Competency on High Order Thinking Items in A Junior High School

Rini, N.K. Ratna Kusuma (Unknown)
N.L.P, D.K. Tantra, (Unknown)
Dewi, Eka Sulistia (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
09 Nov 2020

Abstract

This study aims to analyze and describe the students’ reading competencies and comparing simultaneously the students reading competencies on high order thinking items across classes, text genres, and reading indicators. The design implemented was descriptive in order to answer the first research question and comparative research in order to answer the second research questions. The instrument used for data collection was reading competency test. The data were then analyzed descriptively and inferentially by implementing a parametric statistic, namely: central tendency measures; measures of dispersion; and simultaneous comparison. The present study was applied one-way ANOVA as the inferential analysis. The result showed, the significant value of one-way ANOVA on the students Reading Competency was 0.75. The significant figure was higher than 0.05. As a result, the students reading competency in high order thinking items was not significant. Therefore, the null hypothesis was accepted. It can be drawn a conclusion that the students reading competencies on high-order-thinking items across classes, text genres, and reading indicators are in below average.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JERE

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Subject

Humanities Education Public Health Social Sciences Other

Description

Journal of Educational Research and Evaluation (JERE) is an interdisciplinary publication of original research and writing on education which publishes papers to international audiences of educational researchers. The JERE aims to provide a forum for scholarly understanding of the field of education ...