Khairani Faizah, Sumaryanti, Sulistiyono, Padli, Yudanto
Background. Physical growth has a significant influence on children's motor skills development. Objectives. This research aims to analyze (1) the influence of learning methods on the improvement of early childhood gross motor skills and (2) the difference in the influence of demonstration and conventional learning methods on the improvement of early childhood gross motor skills. Methods. This type of research is an experiment with two groups: pre-test and post-test. The sample in this study is 20 early childhoods. Gross motor instruments were tested consisting of: (1) a test of walking on a straight line of 5 meters, (2) a test of running to avoid five obstacles as far as 15 meters, (3) a test of standing on one foot for 10 seconds, (4) a test of jumping from a 15 cm high beam, (5) a test of jumping from a 15 cm high beam. Results. The research results prove that: 1) There is a significant influence of learning methods on early childhood gross motor skills by obtaining a significance value of less than 0.05 (p <0.05). 2) There was a difference in the influence of demonstration and conventional learning methods on improving early childhood gross motor skills. It was tested that the average score of the gross motor post-test in the demonstration learning method group was 12.2. On the contrary, the average score in the conventional learning method group was 7.8, with an average difference in the post-test. Conclusions. With this, it can be concluded that the group given the treatment of the demonstration learning method has a more significant influence than the group of conventional learning methods. © 2025, Society of Aging and Physical Activity (SAPA). All rights reserved.
Faculty of Health and Sports Science, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Faculty of Sports Science, Universitas Negeri Padang, Indonesia
