TY - THES PB - Universitas Muhammadiyah Prof Dr. HAMKA UR - http://repository.uhamka.ac.id/id/eprint/16272/ KW - Reading Skill KW - Student Teams-Achievement Divisions (STAD) technique KW - Classroom action research. A1 - Saraswati, Dwintha AV - public N2 - The main objective of this study is todescribetheimplementationofStudent Teams- Achievement Divisions (STAD) techniquein improving students? reading comprehension such as the contribution of the technique in reading comprehension, reading comprehension improvement, and the students? responsestoward the implementation of STAD techniquein teaching reading comprehension among the eight grade students of SMPBhara-Trikora Jakarta in 2017/2018 academicyear. This study is a classroom action research that was done in three cycles. The participant of this study was 17 students. The data collection was done using observation, test, and questionnaire. The data from the observation that had been taken from every cycle analyzed descriptively while the data from test were analyzed quantitatively. The result of this study shows that teaching and learning process used Student Teams-Achievement Divisions (STAD)technique issuccessful, and it can improve students? reading skill. It is supported also by the qualitative and quantitative data which show that (1) implementing Student Teams-Achievement Divisions (STAD) technique not only made students understand the material of narrative text, but also motivated andenthusiastic while following the teaching and learning process, (2)the students? responses toward the implementation of STAD technique in teaching reading were positive, (3) the students? test score was increasing in every cycle. In the first cycle, the students? average score was 70.3, increase to 75.0 in the second cycle, and reach81.5 in the third cycle.Based on these findings, it is recommended that STAD technique can be implemented in teaching reading comprehension to improve students? reading comprehension. Y1 - 2018/02/26/ TI - The Implementation of Student Teams-Achievement Divisions (STAD) Technique in Reading Comprehension: A Classroom Action Research at the Eight Grade Students of SMPBhara-Trikora ID - repository16272 M1 - masters ER -