Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue: 5

The Effect of Peer Tutoring and Social Skill on Learning Results and Concepts Application for Students of Health Department

  • Author:
  • Farida DK Halis1, I Nyoman Sudana Degeng2, Punaji Setyosari2, Atti Yudiernawati1, Heru Santoso Wahito Nugroho3,
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 223 to 227

1Health Polytechnic of Ministry of Health at Malang, Indonesia

2Postgraduate Program in Learning Technology, State University of Malang, Indonesia

3Health Polytechnic of Ministry of Health at Surabaya, Indonesia

*Corresponding author: Heru Santoso Wahito Nugroho Midwifery Campus of Magetan, Health Polytechnic of Ministry of Health at Surabaya, S. Parman Street No. 1 Magetan, Jawa Timur, Indonesia Email: heruswn@gmail.com

Online published on 29 May, 2018.

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the effect of peer group learning and social skills learning strategy on the learning outcomes of understanding and application of concepts on the basic concept of nursing. The study used pseudo experimental design. The subjects of the study were nursing students of Malang with 76 students. Data collection was a test on social skills and learning outcomes. Data was analyzed by using Anova. The results indicated that: (1) learning achievement in applying peer tutoring strategy gave better effect than direct learning strategy (2) students with high social skills had higher average score than low social skills.

Keywords

Learning strategy, Peer tutoring, Social skills