Improving elementary school students’ creativity and writing skills through digital comics
Yıl: 2020 Cilt: 19 Sayı: 2 Sayfa Aralığı: 426 - 435 Metin Dili: İngilizce DOI: 10.17051/ilkonline.2020.689661 İndeks Tarihi: 10-04-2020
Improving elementary school students’ creativity and writing skills through digital comics
Öz: Creativity is an important component in 21st century learning. Students with high creativity areeasy to improve their ideas and vice versa. The active learning through media is one solution for students’low ability in improving ideas. This study was conducted to develop students’ creativity and writing skillsthrough digital comics. This study was a quasi-experimental through a pre-test–post-test design.Participants were 56 fifth-grade students consisting of 27 students as an experimental group and 29students as a control group. The study was conducted at two Indonesian public elementary schools in thefirst semester during the academic year 2019/2020. Rubric for Creativity (RCr) and Rubric for WritingSkills (RWS) were used as pre- and post-tests. The independent samples t-test and paired samples t-testwere applied at the significance level of 0.05. The results showed that digital comics significantly improvethe creativity and writing skills of the experimental group compared to the control group. Thus, it can beconcluded that digital comics are effective in improving the creativity and writing skills of elementary school students.
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