Abstract
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.
Highlights
Civics education is a subject that aims to shape the nation's personality in accordance with the order of moral values
The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of cognitive moral-based on civics education teaching materialin improving moral judgement competence in the fifth grade elementary school
The result of significance test of control group normality is 0.107 and the experimental group is 0.20, it means that both groups are normal distributed since the result of the count is greater than the alpha value (>0.05)
Summary
Civics education is a subject that aims to shape the nation's personality in accordance with the order of moral values. This subject is intended to shape learners into human beings who have a sense of nationality, love their country and behave in accordance with the moral of Pancasila [1]. The role of civics education as a vehicle for moral education is a very fundamental thing. Civics education as one of compulsory contents in all levels of education has a mission to foster, uphold, and develop a set of moral values [3]. Learning about moral values conducted in the learning activities at schools should be implemented in the content of this subject matter that has become one of the goals of Civics education
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