PENGARUH PENDEKATAN BLENDED LEARNING TERHADAP PENGETAHUAN DAN SIKAP SISWA KELAS 5 SEKOLAH DASAR TENTANG DEMAM BERDARAH DENGUE

Abstract

Background The program to prevent and get rid of DHF in Indonesia has been applied for approximately 43 years, but still haven’t succeeded in reducing the number of casualties. Providing health education through socialization, especially lecturing-like-socialization, is often chosen by most people, but there are tons of flaws in this method. A novel method known as blended learning is potential to improve students’ learning quality. Aim To prove the effect of blended-learning-approach towards the knowledge and attitude of elementary 5th graders’ regarding prevention of DHF. Method This research is a quasi-experiment with none-quivalent and pretestposttest control group design. The subject of this research is 227 students who were divided into 6 classes; 3 classes as the controlled group and 3 classes as the experimental group. Results Experimental and controlled group shows improving knowledge and attitude (pretest and posttest) after being given blended-learning-approach and lectures seen from p=0,000. In the posttest of knowledge, there is a significant difference between blended learning approach and lecturing-method, seen from p=0,014 but the median of the controlled group is higher than the experimental group (76.67>75.00). In the posttest of attitude, there is a significant difference between blended learning approach and lecturing-method seen from p=0,006, with the median of the controlled group is smaller than the experimental group (90.20<92.80). Conclusion There are some effects of blended learning approach towards the knowledge and attitude of elementary fifth graders regarding DHF. Keywords lectures, blended-learning-approach, knowledge, attitude, DHF.