Abstract
Children have many abilities that continue to develop; there are musical abilities of children who also develop. At the Kintelan Semarang State Kindergarten there is a kolintang extracurricular to support the development of children's musical abilities, but not all children join the kolintang extracurricular. The aim of this study was to determine the musical ability of children who take kolintang extracurricular activities with children who do not take kolintang extracurricular activities at Kintelan Semarang State Kindergarten. This research uses quantitative research with comparative methods. The subject and population of this study were children of Class B of Kintelan Semarang State Kindergarten. The data collection was carried out by distributing questionnaires. The data analysis technique used is the analysis of the independent sample t-test, which was previously subjected to a prerequisite test, namely the normality and homogeneity tests. The results showed that children who took kolintang extracurricular activities got a minimum value of 86, a maximum score of 134, and an average value of 119.79, while children who did not take extracurricular kolintang received a minimum value of 70, a maximum value of 114, and an average value of 90.93. tcount > ttabel is 4,389> 1,701 and Sig <0.05 is 0,000 <0.05. The conclusion of this study is that there is a significant difference in the musical abilities of children who take kolintang extracurricular activities with children who do not take kolintang extracurricular activities. The suggestion of this research is that the teacher should motivate all children to be able to participate in kolintang extracurricular activities so that their musical abilities can develop optimally.
Highlights
Descriptive Analysis of Children’s Music Ability, it is known that children who take kolintang extracurricular get the minimum value is 86, the maximum value is 134, the average value is 119.79, the middle value is 112, the standard deviation is 12,378, the variance is
While for children who do not follow kolintang extracurricular, it is known that the minimum value is 70, the maximum value is 114, the average value is 90.93, the middle value is 92, the standard deviation is 14,955, the variant is 223,638, and the range is 44
The conclusion of this study is that there is a significant difference between the musical abilities of children who take kolintang extracurricular with children who do not take kolintang extracurricular
Summary
At this time, the child experiences growth and development quickly. Child growth and development includes all aspects, namely, physical and motoric aspects, cognitive and language aspects, moral and religious aspects, and social and emotional aspects. Growth and development of all aspects of the child is the right time to provide stimulation to stimulate the development of these aspects (Nuryanto, 2017), in addition to stimulation of growth and development of children requires special attention from the surrounding environment in order to run optimally. Education is one of the forms of attention for children, education is important to be given to children because education is the basis of children’s physical and psychological development. Education has an important role to support the growth and development of children
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