Developing Pop-Up Book Learning Media to Improve Cognitive Ability of Children Aged 4-5 Years

This study aims: (1) to develop pop-up book learning media appropriate for children aged 4-5 years and (2) know the effectiveness of pop-up book learning media to improve cognitive ability for children aged 4-5 years. This development research adopted Borg & Gall. The subjects used for the preliminary field test were 2 teachers and 12 children aged 4-5 years and main field test of 4 teachers and 31 children aged 4-5 years. The operational field test consisted of 40 children. Techniques and instruments of data collection were conducted through interviews, validation sheets, teacher and child response questionnaires, and observation sheets. Data collection techniques on operational trial used one-group pretest-posttest design. Data analysis used homogeneity test, normality test, paired sample t-test with significance level 0.05. The results show that: (1) The research has successfully developed a pop-up book learning media for children aged 4-5 years, (2) pop-up book learning media was appropriate to be used according to expert judgment and test result, and (3) the media of pop-up book was effective to improve cognitive ability for children aged 4-5 years. This can be seen from the result of paired sample t-test calculations in which the significance value was 0.00 less than 0.05 (<0.05), meaning that the pop-up book learning media was effective to improve cognitive ability for children aged 4-5 years.