THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GAMIFICATION TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ TENSES MASTERY

Abstract

Having joined an online learning for a long time, the students get bored to get involved and engaged in the learning process. The teacher’s creativity to create fun and interactive activities like gamification is highly required in order to cope with the students’ boredom. Gamification is a teaching method that uses game elements with the aim of motivating students to be directly involved in games and learning at the same time so that students get an interesting and enjoyable learning experience. Although many studies have been conducted related to the use of gamification, the study on enhancing tenses mastery using gamification is rarely found. This study was aimed to investigate whether gamification was more effective than conventional teaching method in enhancing tenses mastery of the second semester students of nursing diploma III of faculty of health of Harapan Bangsa University. The method which was employed in this research was a quasi-experimental method with a post-test-only non-equivalent control group design. The population of the research was the second semester students of nursing diploma III of faculty of health of Harapan Bangsa University. Two classes were taken by using total sampling technique. The samples in this research were two classes; experimental class consisting of 30 students from 2A-1 and control class consisting of 30 students from 2A-2. The research instrument used was a tenses mastery test. The data were obtained from tenses mastery test. They were analysed in the terms of their frequency distribution and t-test. It was proven that the mean score of the students’ tenses mastery in experimental class was 86.24 while the mean score of the students’ tenses mastery in control class was 79.82 The t-test result in the research was 2.13 and the t-table is 1.67. It meant that t-test score was higher than the t-table. Based on the research findings, it could be concluded that the use of gamification was more effective than conventional teaching method to enhance tenses mastery of the second semester students of nursing diploma III of Harapan Bangsa University