The Effect of Skillastics Game on the Elementray School Students’ Social Skills

Syam Hardwis

2017

Abstract

The research was conducted because of the low social skill in children at elementary school level today. This is shown by the observed behavioral disorders such as lack of confidence, academic failure, shyness, and violent conduct. Skillastic game can help social skill development at elementary school children (lynxleisure.com). Skillastic game can be used because it is not quite popular in Indonesia. The research was aimed at finding out what is the effect of skillastic games on students’ social skill development at elementary school level. To this end, true Experimental Design using The Randomized Pretest-posttest design was used to solve the problem. The sample was two fifth grader classes. The sample was divided into two groups; experimental and control group consisting of 42 students of each group. The research was conducted in SD Padasuka 5 Bandung and SD Rancaekek II Kab. Bandung. Cluster sampling technique was used to choose the sample. The instrument used was a test Social Skill Assessment Elementary School Age by Ellen McGinnis and Arnold R Goldstein. The Analysis of the data in this research using SPSS with the test equipment used include: test for normality with Shapiro Wilk, test homogeneity with Lavene statistic. And F test or Anova for to see the difference the average score sample group. The result of this research is obtained an average score of the experimental group and control in urban and rural areas for the development of social skill (3.3810: -0.1429; 1.1905; 1.6429) with a value of F= 6.251 (0.000) (P<0.05). This means that there is a significant difference from the average score of the development of social skill between the experimental group and control group in urban and rural areas. In other words, that skillastic game have a significant influence on the development of social skill of students with demonstrated presence of cooperation, interaction with other students, and sense of responsibility compared with the control group.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Hardwis S. (2017). The Effect of Skillastics Game on the Elementray School Students’ Social Skills.In 2nd International Conference on Sports Science, Health and Physical Education - Volume 1: ICSSHPE, ISBN 978-989-758-317-9, pages 76-79. DOI: 10.5220/0007055300760079

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsshpe17,
author={Syam Hardwis},
title={The Effect of Skillastics Game on the Elementray School Students’ Social Skills},
booktitle={2nd International Conference on Sports Science, Health and Physical Education - Volume 1: ICSSHPE,},
year={2017},
pages={76-79},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007055300760079},
isbn={978-989-758-317-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - 2nd International Conference on Sports Science, Health and Physical Education - Volume 1: ICSSHPE,
TI - The Effect of Skillastics Game on the Elementray School Students’ Social Skills
SN - 978-989-758-317-9
AU - Hardwis S.
PY - 2017
SP - 76
EP - 79
DO - 10.5220/0007055300760079