The Effect of Learning Style on Students' Reading Comprehension Achievement

Nita Sitta Rachma, Cucu Sutarsyah, Hery Yufrizal

Abstract


Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menemukan apakah ada pengaruh gaya belajar terhadap prestasi pemahaman membaca siswa. Desain penelitian ini kuantitatif menggunakan non-correlational of ex post facto design. Populasi dari penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas satu di SMAN 10 Bandar Lampung. Sampel penelitian sebanyak 30 siswa. Instrumen yang digunakan adalah kuisioner gaya belajar dan tes pemahaman membaca. Data yang terkumpul dianalisa menggunakan Pearson Product Moment, One-Way ANOVA di SPSS 16.0. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa nilai f-table dari gaya belajar terhadap prestasi pemahaman membaca siswa 1.067 dengan nilai signifikansi .380 lebih besar dari f-value (.05). Dapat disimpulkan bahwa tidak ada hubungan yang signifikan antara gaya belajar pada prestasi pemahaman membaca siswa. Namun, setelah dilakukan post hoc test, gaya belajar kinestetik menjadi gaya belajar terbaik pada prestasi pemahaman membaca siswa dibanding kedua gaya belajar lainnya.

The objective of this study is to find out whether any significant effect of learning style on students reading comprehension achievement. This was quantitative research applied non co-relational of ex post facto design. The population was the first grade students of SMAN 10 Bandar Lampung. There were 30 students as the sample. The instruments were in the form of questionnaire about learning style and reading comprehension test. The data were analyzed by using Pearson Product Moment- One Way ANOVA in SPSS 16.0. The result showed that F-table score of learning style on students reading comprehension is 1.067 and the significant value is .380. It concluded that there is no significant effect of learning style on students reading comprehension achievement. Moreover, after doing post hoc test, it was found that kinesthetic tend to be the best learning style in reading comprehension achievement among others.

Keyword: effect, learning style, reading comprehension achievement


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