The effectiveness of the Predict Observe Explain (POE) Method and Time Token Arends for Students’ Concepts Understanding in The Social Studies Subject

Abstract

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of predict observe explain (POE) learning methods and time token Arends on the ability to understand concepts of elementary school students in social studies subjects. This research is a quasi-experimental research with pretest-posttest control group design. The population of this study were 40 students of class IV SDN 4 Cakranegara. Simple random sampling technique was used to determine the treatment class. Class IVa was treated with the time token Arends method and class IVb was treated with the predict observe explain (POE) method. The students were tested with 10 pretest questions and 10 posttest questions. Data analysis was performed using the normality test, homogeneity test, normalized gain, paired t-test, independent t-test, and the MANOVA test. The significance level used is 0.05. The results showed that the use of the POE method and time token Arends is not effective in increasing the concept understanding for grade IV students of SDN 4 Cakaranegara in social studies subjects.