The effect of using poster on students’ achievement in writing descriptive text at VIII grade SMP Negeri 1 Panyabungan Selatan

Nasution, Laila Fitri (2025) The effect of using poster on students’ achievement in writing descriptive text at VIII grade SMP Negeri 1 Panyabungan Selatan. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This study focuses on the problems of students in writing descriptive text. The purposes of this study include: 1) To describe the students’ writing descriptive text achievement before using poster media at SMP Negeri 1 Panyabungan Selatan is. 2) To describe the students’ writing descriptive text achievement after using poster media at SMP Negeri 1 Panyabungan Selatan is. 3) To examine the significant effect of poster media on students’ achievement in writing descriptive text at the VIII grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Panyabungan Selatan. This study is a experimental with a pre-test post-test control group design. The population of the study were all the students of class VIII grade SMP Negeri 1 Panyabungan Selatan, with a sample of 25 students divided into an experimental group. Data were collected through in the form of essay tests of writing descriptive text and analysed using independent sample t-test with the help of SPSS software version 26. The results showed that mean score before implementing poster media, the students’ achievement in the experimental class was categorized as “Enough”, with a mean score of 63.64. After the implementation of poster media, the mean score in the experimental class increased to 81.36, which also falls under the “Good” category, but reflects a notable improvement in performance. The data were analyzed using SPSS version 26 with an independent sample t-test, and the result showed that t-count (6.956) > t-table (1.682), which means Ha is accepted and H0 is rejected. Thus, it can be concluded that there is a significant effect of using poster media on students’ achievement in writing descriptive text at VIII grade SMP Negeri 1 Panyabungan Selatan.

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