The Effect of Peer Tutoring and Social Skill on Learning Results and Concepts Application for Students of Health Department

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the effect of peer group learning and social skills learning strategy on the learning outcomes of understanding and application of concepts on the basic concept of nursing. The study used pseudo experimental design. The subjects of the study were nursing students of Malang with 76 students. Data collection was a test on social skills and learning outcomes. Data was analyzed by using Anova. The results indicated that: (1) learning achievement in applying peer tutoring strategy gave better effect than direct learning strategy (2) students with high social skills had higher average score than low social skills.