SMART Strategy to Enhance Student’s Reading Comprehension

Abstrak

SMART Strategy is one of strategy in reading comprehension skills. The goals of the research were to investigate the effect of using the SMART Strategy on the reading comprehension skills of tenth-grade students at SMA Swasta Bina Putra during the even semester of the 2023–2024 academic year in East Sepatan, Tangerang Regency. The study employed a cluster random sampling method. The researcher conducted a pre-experimental design in the form of two groups of pre-test and post-test design with a quantitative approach. The pre-test was conducted to determine the student's reading comprehension skill score before the treatment given and the post-test was conducted. The data analysis showed that the students' reading comprehension scores by using the SMART Strategy were better than those of the control class where the class was not taught. The analysis indicated that the mean post-test score of the experimental class was higher than the pre-test score, suggesting that the SMART Strategy had a significant positive effect after the treatment. The t-test results further supported the conclusion that there was a significant effect of using the SMART Strategy on students' reading comprehension skills.