Innovative Notation System for Effective Reading and Thinking Strategy in Covid 19 Learning and Teaching Pandemonium

Abstract

Encouraging reading to the students who have the opportunity to do so, and shaping on providing educational support to those who do not, we can take small, yet impactful, steps towards combatting illiteracy during this Covid 19 pandemonium through Innovative Notation System For Effective Reading And Thinking . Therefore, the main objective of this study was to find out whether or not there was significant difference of students’ reading in narrative texts taught by using Innovative Notation System For Effective Reading and Thinking Strategy and taught without using the strategy. The method of the research that was used in this study was a quasi-experimental design. The population of this study was all of the eighth grade students of State Junior High School 1 Palembang in the academic year of 2019/2020 with the total 251 students. The sample was 60 students divided into two groups they were experimental and control group. The sample was taken by using purposive sampling. The data were collected by written test. The test was given from multiple-choice that consisted of 40 test items and analyzed by using independent sample t-test formula. The result shows that the level with df 29 (30-1) was 1.671 and t-obtained 6.27. It means that t-obtained was higher than t-table 1.671 as critical value. Consequently, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected.