Seeing Pancasila: Picture Media to Improve Fourth Graders’ Civic Education Achievement

Abstract

Fourth-grade students at SDN Mantingan 5 in Ngawi showed low participation and low achievement in Civic Education (PKn) because lessons were conventional and used no media. This classroom action research examined whether picture media of the Pancasila symbols could improve students’ learning achievement. Following the Kemmis and McTaggart cycle of planning, action, observation, and reflection, the study ran a pre-cycle and two cycles in April 2023 with 12 students. In Cycle I, students coloured pictures of the Pancasila symbols; in Cycle II, they also pasted and named the symbols and their precepts, completed a worksheet, and presented their work. Data came from written tests, observation, and documentation, and were analysed descriptively against the minimum mastery criterion (KKM) of 70. The class mean rose from 63 before the action to 70 in Cycle I and 83 in Cycle II, and the number of students reaching the KKM rose from 4 (33.3%) to 6 (50%) and then 12 (100%). Because there was no control group and each cycle was a single lesson, the gains are consistent with, but do not prove, an effect of the media. Picture media of the Pancasila symbols appears useful for civic education in the lower grades and should be tested with comparison groups.