A study on Junior High School Students’ Critical Reading Skill in Surakarta

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10.2991/978-2-38476-114-2_86How to use a DOI?

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Critical Reading; Descriptive Quantitative Research; Social Studies

Abstract

Critical reading has become an important aspect in education due to the open information accessibility. Students have to be critical in reading since there were texts which implicated various writers’ aims and intentions. The study was aimed to find out the students’ critical reading competence in Surakarta. This study was descriptive-quantitative research with grade 8 students in Surakarta as the subject of the research. The research was done through giving a critical reading test to 96 grade 8 students of 5 junior high schools in Surakarta both private and state. The test consisted of Multiple-Choice test, Complex-Multiple Choice test, and Matching test. The questions were built based on the critical reading indicators, they were: Understand (U), Integrate (I), Reflect (R), and Evaluate (E). Each question and answer were then analyzed statistically using descriptive statistics to find out each indicator tendency. The result showed that the students are moderate at understanding the text (68.92%), poor in Integrating text and real-life experience (52.31%), moderate in Reflecting the text (62.27%) and poor in Evaluating the text (47.22%). It could be concluded that Junior High Schools students in Surakarta have a moderate critical reading skill (57.68%) which indicates that it needs to be improved. Based on the result, the next researcher could develop their research focused on finding out the reasons causing the inadequate skill and the alternatives to improve the students critical reading skill.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - B. D. Elizabeth Untari
AU  - Joko Nurkamto
AU  - Nunuk Suryani
AU  - Gunarhadi
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/12/04
TI  - A study on Junior High School Students’ Critical Reading Skill in Surakarta
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Learning Innovation and Quality Education (ICLIQE 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 933
EP  - 942
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-114-2_86
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-114-2_86
ID  - Untari2023
ER  -