THE EFFECT OF PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING AND PROJECT-BASED LEARNING ON STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT

The study was conducted to find out the effect of using PBL and PJBL Strategies on Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text at Senior high School 11 Medan. The research design used in this research was experimental research. The sample of this research were 90 students of the first semester at Senior high School 11 Medan in Academic Year of 2009-2010, with population 115 students from three classes. Based on cluster random sampling technique, there were chosen 30 students taught by using PBL strategy and 30 students taught PJBL strategy and 30 students using Control Group. The instrument used were 50 items of reading comprehension tests to measure PBL and PJBL. The technique of data analysis was factorial design specifically by using One Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) with significance level = 0.01. The testing of hypotheses in level p (0.01), with 2 degree freedom between (dfb) and 87 degrees of freedom within group (dfw) was found that F observed > than F table (8.7 > 4.79). It means thatthe first null hypothesis of the study Zo, was rejected and the firstalternative hypothesis (Y = 0 was accepted. In other words, it wasfound that PBL and PJBL and Control Group have different effect significantly on students reading comprehension of narrative text. For the second hypothesis, the researcher found out that the Problem-based Learning is more effective than Project-based Learning.