The Effect of Music and Motoric Movement Intervention to Increase Attention among Elementary School Studentsin Semarang Central Java

摘要

This study was done to determine the effect of the music and motoric movement as an intervention to increase attention among third grader elementary school in Semarang. Quasi Experimental with nonrandomized pretest-posttest control group design was used to achieve the aim of study. Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC)-IV digit spansub-test (forward backward)was used to measure students attention. Subjects were divided into three groups, first group wastreated with music intervention involved 28 students, second group was treated with music and motoric movement intervention involved 25 students, and 25 students in the control group. The results showed that theattention in group 1 was significantly increased (MD =-1321, p<0.05), in group 2 was not significantly increased (MD =-0280;; p>0.05), while subject in control group experienced with decreased attention (MD =-0443, p<0.05). Music intervention could increase attention by 11.7 %, music and motoric movement intervention only increased attention by0.5 %, and subjects experienced a significant decrease by 13 % in control group.This finding is strikingly unique and perhaps will promote the notion that "two heads are not always better than one", but clearly better than nothing.