The Child-Friendly-Based Lift the Flap Story Book: Does this Media Affect the Students’ Academic Self-Efficacy in Mathematics Learning?

Abstract

This paper aims to determine the impact of the child-friendly-based lift the flap story book toward academic self-efficacy of fourth-grade students in learning mathematics. This is a quasi-experiment with pretest-posttest group design. The sample of the research is selected by the cluster sampling technique consist of 82 students from three classes. The data were collected through mathematics tests and academic self-efficacy scales. The test results were used for proving the prerequisite and hypothesis test with a significance level of 0.05. The results showed that the data in the control class, the experiment class I, and the experiment class II had normal distribution and the variance was homogeneous. The result of independent sample t-test for the control class and the experiment class I showed that sig.2 tailed 0,008 <0,05, while the result of the control class and the experiment class II showed that sig.2 tailed 0,002 <0,05. Based on the test results, it can be seen that the significance value is <0.05 so that the use of the child-friendly-based lift the flap story book on learning mathematics positively affects students’ academic self-efficacy. Judging from the results of mathematics tests, there were different results on students who have high and low academic self-efficacy skills. Students with high academic self-efficacy were able to complete almost all questions correctly. While students with low academic self-efficacy could only solve some problems correctly.

Keywords: academic self-efficacy, child-friendly, mathematics learning, picture story book