Assessing Students Reading Comprehension Using Close Elide Test at the Eight Grade of MTsN Langsa

The objective this study is to find out how he use of Close Elide Test in students reading comprehension at the eighth grade of MTSN Langsa in academic year 2017/2018. The subjects of this study were 70 students. Experimental research was used as a method in this study. The study was carried out in the two classes, they are the controlled class and and the experimental class. The data were gathered through tests which were delivered into the pre-test and post-test. The result of this study showed that Assessing Close Elide Test is effective to use in teaching reading comprehension. Gained score of the experimental class (27.14) is higher than the controlled class (17.71). from the rsult of statistic calculation, it is obtained that the value of t-oservation (to) is 3.47 and degree of freedom (df) is 68. In the table of significance 5%. The value of degree significance is 1.66. comparing those value, the result is 3.47 > 1.66 which mean t observation (to) score is higher than ttable (tt) score. In other word, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected.