A Comparative Study on Students' Reading Skills between the 2013 Curriculum and the Medeka Curriculum on Eleventh-grade Students of SMAN 1 Malinau and SMAN 3 Malinau.
The study aimed to find differences in students' reading skill scores between the 2013 Curriculum and the Merdeka Curriculum for grade XI students at SMAN 1 Malinau and SMAN 3 Malinau in the academic year 2023/2024. This study used the causal comparative method with a sample of 55 eleventh-grade students at SMAN 1 Malinau and 51 eleventh-grade students at SMAN 3 Malinau, using the purposive sampling technique. This study used TOEIC as a reading test instrument. The researchers used SPSS program version 24.0 to analyze the data. The study results showed that there is a significant difference between students at SMAN 1 Malinau who use the 2013 Curriculum and students at SMAN 3 Malinau who use the Merdeka curriculum in reading skills. The results of the Mann-Whitney test showed the P-value of -5.922 is higher than the significance level of 0.05, which means that the students' reading skill scores have differences between SMAN 1 Malinau and SMAN 3 Malinau. The school facilities are one of the supporting factors in improving student learning outcomes. The more diverse the facilities used the better the impact on the learning process and student learning outcomes. Keywords: Reading, Reading Skills, 2013 Curriculum and Merdeka Curriculum