Many students have difficulty understanding texts, especially grade VII students, because they have poor reading habits and teachers still use conventional teaching strategies to teach reading comprehension. One strategy that can be used in teaching reading comprehension is QAR (Question Answer Relationship). Therefore, the objectives of the study is to investigate the effectiveness of using QAR Strategy in Teaching reading comprehension Skill. The research on students’ reading was a quasi-experimental study. It involved 54 students of seventh grade students of SMPN 1 Gresik in the second semester of the academic year of 2021/2022. The students were divided into two groups: VII-3 class as the experimental group and VII-4 class as the control group. In the research, the students of VII-3 class were taught by using QAR Strategy whereas the students of VII-4 class were taught using KWL (Know Want To Learn) Strategy. The researcher used the reading comprehension test (pre-test and post-test) to collect the data. The data were analyzed by using ANCOVA in SPSS 21 version for windows. The result showed, that mean score of pre-test score of experimental group was 57.41 and the control was 53.93. In the post-test, the mean score of experimental group was 70.15 and the mean that score of control group was 65.19. The result of ANCOVA showed that the significance is 0.362. it higher than 0.05 (0.362 > 0.05). which can be concluded that the alternative hypothesis is rejected and the null hypothesis is accepted. It means there is no significant differences between students who are taught by using QAR Strategy and students who are taught by using KWL strategy and we can conclude that QAR Strategy is not effective in teaching reading comprehension .

Attamami , Aliyatus Sholikhah .   (2023). The Effectiveness Of Qar Strategy In Teaching Reading Comprehension Skill. IAIN Kediri