Yulia Ayriza, Farida Agus Setiawati, Agus Triyanto, Nanang Erma Gunawan, Moh. Khoerul Anwar, Nugraheni Dwi Budiarti, Anisa Rima Fadhilah
A variety of previous research findings have shown that educational games can improve students’ knowledge, proving that the joyful learning experience improves the learning process. However, it is not easy to make educative or learning activities interesting enough to stimulate the acquisition of career knowledge in lower grade elementary school students. This research was conducted to examine the effectiveness of quartet card game in increasing career knowledge in lower grade elementary school students (grades 1, 2, and 3). A quantitative approach and an experimental method were employed. The data were collected with career knowledge pretest and posttest with 254 lower grade elementary school students and were analyzed with a statistical t-test of the gain scores and variance analysis of the posttest gain scores from the three different methods. The results showed that of the three quartet card game methods examined, only two were significantly found effective (p <.05) in increasing the career knowledge in lower grade elementary school students; namely, the chain message method and the conventional method. The memory game method failed to increase the students’ career knowledge. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Colombo St. No 01, Yogyakarta, 55281, Indonesia; Department of Guidance and Counseling, Faculty of Education, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Colombo St. No 1, Yogyakarta, 55281, Indonesia; Department of Islamic Guidance and Counseling, Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta, Marsda Adisucipto St., Yogyakarta, 55281, Indonesia; Department of Elementary Education, Magister Program, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Colombo St. No 1, Yogyakarta, 55281, Indonesia
