4.1.4 The Result of the Students’ Reading Comprehension Test at the End of
the Cycle
The reading comprehension test was administered to measure students’ reading comprehension after the action given to them. The reading comprehension
test was conducted on Tuesday, May 19
th
2015, it consisted of 35 test items covered of word comprehension, sentence comprehension, paragraph comprehension, and text
comprehension. The test given was divided into two parts. The first part was multiple choices consisted of 25 test items, and the second parts were true false that consist of
10 test items. The time allocation was 60 minutes. All of students joined the reading comprehension test. The following table was the result of the reading comprehension
test. The students could be categorized achieved the research target when he or she got the score of 70 or higher.
Table 4.7 The Result of the Students’ Reading Comprehension Test at the End
of the Cycle
No. Students Name Score
Achieved Not Achieved
1 A L
83
√ 2
A W
69
√ 3
A M
74
√ 4
A R
80
√ 5
A Z
68
√ 6
A E
81
√ 7
A N
65
√ 8
A F
81
√ 9
A W
69
√ 10
B S
76
√ 11
B R
88
√ 12
D H
80
√ 13
D T A
64
√ 14
D N
78
√ 15
D R
80
√ 16
I A
88
√ 17
L N Y
88
√ 18
L N A
62
√ 19
M D
86
√
20 M N
78
√ 21
N R
86
√ 22
N H
92
√ 23
N A
69
√ 24
O P H
80
√ 25
P A
78
√ 26
R A
90
√ 27
R I W
88
√ 28
R
68
√ 29
S F U
76
√ 30
S H
86
√ 31
T
86
√ 32
W P
90
√ 33
Y E A
80
√ 34
Y A
88
√ 35
Y E
78
√ Total
27 8
Percentage 77
23
E : The percentage of the students who achieved the target score
n : The number of the students who get score ≥ 70
N : The total number of the students
In this research, the action was considered successful if the XI-MIA 3 students’ mean score of reading comprehension test reached at least 70, and it could
be reached at least 70 of the research participants. Based on the table 4.2 above, it was found that the students who achieved the target score on the reading
comprehension test were 27 out of 35 students, while 8 out of 35 students had not achieved the target score.
In the following chart, it can be seen the students’ improvement from pre-test of reading to reading comprehension test in the end of
cycle one. In pre-test of reading, the students who achieved the target score were 54 of 35 students and 46 of students had not achieved. In reading comprehension test,
there were 77 of 35 students achieved the target score and 23 of 35 students had E
not achieve. Referring to the result of pre-test of reading; there was 23 improvement on the students’ reading comprehension test 54 to 77.
Chart 4.8 Students’ Improvement in Reading Comprehension Test in the Cycle
4.1.5 The Result of Reflection at the End of the Cycle
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