Improving Fundamental Locomotor Skills of Elementary School Students in Padang City Through the Kids Athletics Model

Abstract

The problem in this study is the low level of basic movement of students, especially in basic locomotor movements. The purpose of this research is to improve the basic movement of elementary school students through the kid’s athletics model. This research is development research with a model design adapted to the ADDIE development model. The steps taken are analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation. Elementary school students in the city of Padang who are 9-10 years old, as well as the validators are four experts, namely two experts on evaluation and sports measurement tests, two experts on curriculum and materials. The results of the development of this kid’s athletics model, obtained a validation value according to experts an average of 95.9% so that the learning model can be said to be feasible. Then the reliability level was up to 0.989 in the small group trial and 0.996 in the large group trial, so that the learning model was said to be reliable for improving the basic movements of the kid’s athletics model. From the results of validation by experts, the practicality value obtained was a percentage of 96.7%. Then the value of its effectiveness, then obtained a percentage of 92.9%. Thus, it can be concluded that the kids’ athletics learning model is well used as a learning model to improve basic movements, especially basic locomotor movements for elementary school students. Keywords: Fundamental locomotor skills, athletics model, elementary school