Effectiveness of Multicultural-based Comic to Improve Learning Achievement and Tolerance Characters in Elementary School

Abstract

Student success in the 2013 curriculum in elementary school seeks to improve student learning achievement and instill character values derived from Indonesian culture. Problems in the field show that social learning achievement is relatively low in social learning material. Teachers have difficulty developing media to instill a character of tolerance that can be integrated into the material diversity of Indonesian culture. This research aims to determine the effectiveness of CITA (Cerita Indonesia Kita) comic media on social science learning achievement and the character tolerance of 4 th grade elementary school students. The type of research used is quasi-experimentation with pre-test post-test group design. The subjects of this study are students and teachers of 4 th grade Public Elementary School P., Bantul, Yogyakarta Special Region. The instruments used are the tolerance character scale and the social learning achievement test. Data analysis uses independent sample t-test and paired sample t-test at significance level 0.05. The results showed that the multicultural-based CITA comic medium effectively improved social learning achievement and the character tolerance of 4 th grade elementary school students. The effectiveness of comics can be seen from the independent sample t-test and paired sample t-test, which shows a significance value of 0.000.

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