Development of Technology-Based Waterped Media To Enhance Reading Comprehension Skills In Elementary School

This study aims to produce technology-based waterped media and to determine the effectiveness of the media in improving reading comprehension skills. Research and development refers to the steps developed by Borg and Gall, including ten steps. (1) information collection, (2) planning, (3) initial product development, (4) initial field trials, (5) initial product revision, (6) main field trials, (7) product revision, (8) operational field trials, and (9) final product revision, and (10) dissemination and implementation. The subjects of the field trials involved 34 students and two grade V teachers. This study's data collection techniques and instruments used were questionnaires, scales (media validation and material validation), and tests. The study showed that technology-based waterped media could improve reading comprehension skills in the "very good" category. The effectiveness of the technology-based waterped press can be seen from the test results using the independent sample t-test, which shows a significance value of 0.501 or a sig value> 0.05 so that there is a significant difference between the results of reading comprehension skills between the control and experimental classes before and after using technology-based watered media.