Abstract:

This study aims to identify the need for developing a reading comprehension personal-cooperative-based learning model for junior high school students, build learning models and their learning tools, to test the validity of the results of the learning model by experts and users, testing the effectiveness of the learning model. This study used the Research and Development (R&D) method. There are three stages, namely (1) The exploration stage, (2) The development stage, (3) The testing stage. The number of teachers who were the subject of the study was 20 Indonesian junior high school teachers. There are 32 students for interviews and 317 students for data collection used a questionnaire. The development of the reading comprehension personal-cooperative-based learning model is equipped with four products, namely (1) a conceptual guidebook on reading comprehension learning model, (2) guidelines for reading comprehension personal-cooperative learning model, (3) reading comprehension learning materials, and (4) reading box and answer key box. The results of the feasibility of products of the reading comprehension personal-cooperative-based learning model are declared to be feasible by expert and user validators with an excellent category. Personal-cooperative based reading comprehension learning model is effective in improving students' reading comprehension ability.

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