THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING CANVA TOWARD STUDENTS WRITING ABILITY OF ACHIEVEMENT STUDENT OF SMP NEGERI 3 MARDINGDING

Abstract

Many junior high school students do not understand the importance of writing for student achievement. This research aims to find out whether the use of the Canva application is effective or not as a medium for student achievement in writing. This research uses quantitative methods. The instruments used in this research were written interviews and post-test and pre-test. The respondents in this research were students in class VIIIA and class VIIIB at SMP Negeri 3 Mardingding. The research results showed that the effectiveness of Canva on students' writing skills was in class VIIIA with 25 students and class VIIIB with 25 students, and class VIIIB learned to write using Canva in the computer laboratory. and class VIIIA does not use Canva. From the research results, it turns out that learning using Canva is more effective than not using Canva. It is known that the average of class B students is 83.2% pre-test to 98.4% post-test. It is known that class VIIIB understands Canva better because they directly use it, this can be seen from the results test students were more creative in writing than students who did not write from Canva. Meanwhile, class VIIIA results had an average of 53.0% pre-test to 71.6%. So it was concluded that 257.9% of the experimental class t-test calculations were more significant in increasing student achievement in writing.