A Comparative Study on Reading Comprehension of Male and Female
ABSTRACT
A Comparative Study on
Reading Comprehension of Male and Female Students of SMP Negeri 8 Makassar
The
objective of this research was to find out whether there is or not reading comprehension of male and female students of the third year
of SMP Negeri 8 Makassar. This research
employed comparative method. This compares male students and female students’
reading comprehension ability. This study has one variable that is the ability
of female and male students in reading comprehension.
The population of this research was the third
year students of SMP Negeri 8 Makassar which consisted of 290 students. The
sample of the research consisted of 60, 30 male students and 30 female students
which way taken by using random sampling technique.
The
instrument of this research was a reading
test in multiple choices and text questions. The numbers of
the tests are 30 items which is one reading text, there are 10 questions. There
are 20 items for multiple choices and 10 items for text questions.
The result of the data analysis indicated that there
was significance difference between male and female students in reading
comprehension where female students’ score was higher than male students’ score.
The mean score of female students (8,3) was greater than the mean score of male
students (7,3). The standard deviation of female students is 0,91 and the
standard deviation of male students is 1,07. From t-test, the researcher found
that the value of t-test (3,807) was greater than t-table (2.000) at the level
of significance 0.05 with degree of freedom (df) = 58.
Based on the findings and discussions of
the research, the researcher concluded that there was a significant difference
of reading comprehension between male and female students of the third year of
SMP Negeri 8 Makassar and female students’ reading comprehension ability was
better than male students.
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