Improving Fundamental Skills of Elementary School Students through Fundamental Skills Card-Based Cooperative Learning Model

Abstract

The general objective of this study is to determine the effect of fundamental skills (FS) card-based cooperative learning model on the elementary school students. The specific objectives are to describe the effectiveness of FS card, and opinions about FS card media. This type of research is a quasi-experiment, one group pretest-posttest design. The population of this study was Buleleng-Bali Elementary School. The sampling technique used was purposive random sampling. Data collection used FS test instruments, formative class evaluation questionnaires and students' opinions about FS card media. Data were analyzed by using quantitative qualitative descriptive and t-test at significance level of 0.05. The results of this study showed that: 1) the learning effectiveness reached a score of 2.80 from a maximum score of 3.00. 2) 92.39% of the students gave positive opinions, and 3) the result of t-count was 24, 17; p-value