Quizzes application: is it effective to enhance students’ reading comprehension?

Abstract

Reading is crucial for the students because the success of their study depend on their ability to read. In reading, most of the students got difficulties in understanding text, such as they did not know the meaning of each word, how to find main idea, analyzing generic structure, etc. Considering that in this pandemic period, their study time at school is very short. Therefore, students need new and interesting things to keep learning to read. The purpose of this research was to know the effect of using Quizizz Application on the students’ reading comprehension. The researchers used Quantitative approach. Then, the population was the first grade students of SMAN 1 Kediri while the sample was 32 participants. Data collection through pre-test and post-test. The students were given pretest, treatment, and posttest. The treatment was conducted twice in order to know whether there is a significant effect of using Quizizz application in teaching reading comprehension or not. The data got from students’ score of pretest and posttest that analyzed using t-test formula. To analyze the data, the researchers used SPSS version 16.0. The result shows that t-score is higher than t-table in the level significant of 5% (1,696). The mean score of pretest is 57,34 with the total score is 1835 and mean score of posttest is 74,06 with the total score is 2355. Thus, it can be said that there is any significant effect of using the Quizizz application on the students’ reading comprehension at the first grade of SMAN 1 Kediri.