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SKRIPSI THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PREDICT, ORGANIZE, SEARCH, SUMMARIZE, EVALUATE (POSSE) AS A LEARNING STRATEGY ON READING COMPREHENSION OF RECOUNT TEXT OF THE EIGHTH GRADERS
              Reading is a crucial activity for students to gain knowledge and ideas from 
the text. Therefore, appropriate, effective, and exciting learning strategies are 
essential to achieve reading goals. Teachers can facilitate teaching and learning by 
implementing the POSSE strategy. Proficient readers naturally utilize this approach 
to enhance their reading and learning process. By predicting, organizing, searching, 
summarizing, and evaluating, students can participate in reading discussions.  
The objectives of this study are to know the effectiveness of using the 
POSSE strategy to teach students` recount text reading comprehension and to find 
out whether there is a significant difference of the students` recount text reading 
comprehension who are taught using the POSSE strategy and those who are taught 
using the Story Mapping strategy.  
A quantitative approach was used in this study, along with a quasi-experimental 
design. Two classes were involved in this study. The experimental class was taught 
with the POSSE strategy, and the control class was taught with the Story Mapping 
strategy. SMPN 3 Muntilan consisted of 219 students in the eighth class. The 
sampling techniques used were purposive sampling techniques. Class VIII B was 
used as the experimental class, while Class VII G served as the control class. The 
writer used a reading comprehension test to collect the data. The SPSS program 
27.0 was utilized to analyze the data. 
The N-Gain test results showed an average score of 0.3483, which falls 
within the medium improvement range of 0.30 to 0.70. This revealed that the 
POSSE strategy proved effective in teaching students` recount text. Furthermore,  
the Independent Sample T-test revealed that the significance value in this study was 
0.001 < 0.05. From the result of this study, the writer concluded that the alternative 
hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. It means that there is a statistically significant 
difference in reading comprehension among students taught using the POSSE 
strategy and students taught using the Story Mapping strategy. As a suggestion in 
the future, the strategy may be employed by teachers to boost students` reading 
comprehension during classroom lessons.            
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