Improving Self esteem and Games Performances through Games based Learning in Physical Education Content Basketball at Secondary High School

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine and analyze the effect of games-based learning in physical education of Basketball game on junior high school students’ self esteem and skill play in class VII. This study uses quasi experiment with pretest-posttest without control group design which implemented for 1.5 months with 16 meetings, thrice a week. The total numbers of sample are 30 students (15 females and 15 male) aged between 13-14 years old in Bandung, West Java Indonesia. A measuring instrument used for measuring students’ self esteem called Self esteem inventory (SEI) created by Coopersmith and modified by researchers; this questionnaire is a closed-ended questionnaire. Each student was given a pretest and posttest consisting of 40 items that they must respond. Meanwhile, to measure students game performances this study uses GPAI test (games performance analysis instrument). After implementing the learning program, it is found that the game-based approach gives a significant effect on the improvement of students self esteem and basketball playing skills. For self esteem, the average score of male students on pretest is 2.05 and 2.21 on posttest; the average score for female students is 1.98 on pretest and 2.04 on the posttest. For game performances, the average score of male students on pretest is 1.75 and 2.77 on posttest whereas the average score for female students is 1.57 on pretest and 2.34 on posttest. Keywords—self esteem; games performance; games based learning; basketball