Cognitive Moral Based on Civics Education Material in Elementary School

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of the use of cognitive moral
based on civics education teaching material in improving the moral
judgement competence of the fifth grade elementary school students. This
study is a quasi experiment using pretest-postest control group design. The
subjects were 59 students of the fifth grade elementary school consisting of
31 students of experimental class and 28 students of control class. The
treatment of the experimental class used cognitive moral based on civics
education teaching material for about 8 weeks. Learning process in the
control class is on the same material and time intensity, but they were not
given a treatment. Technique of collecting data used is test. The test
instrument consists of 25 multiple choice questions dominated by a moral
dilemma. The result of independent sample t test shows that t value is higher
than t table (2.161> 1.671). The results show that cognitive based civics
education teaching material is effective in improving the moral judgement
competence of the fifth grade elementary school students. The increasing
moral judgement competence in the experimental class based on the
acquisition score N-Gain 0.36 is the medium category.