Project-based learning: Does it really effective to improve social’s skills of elementary school students?

Abstract

In 21 centuries, teacher area required to have high accountability in facilitating their students to achieve various knowledge and life skills in society. An appropriate learning model that meet the students’ needs is essential to develop social skills because the learning model that emphasizes only on the skills of the students as individuals will not allow them to face the challenges of life that demand them to collaborate with other. This research aimed at developing an innovative learning model that facilitate students to optimally achieve social skills as one of the social studies objectives and investigating the significance of the effect of project-based learning model on the social skills of fifth grade students of elementary. The research is done by experimental method with non-equivalent control group design. Based on our findings, it was concluded that project-based learning model had no significant effect on improving the student’s social skills.