Enhancing Multicultural Understanding through Educational Cinema-Based Information Services among Seventh-Grade Students at SMA Brigjend Katamso Medan
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.66851/ijcp.v1i3.206Keywords:
Information services, Educational cinema, Multicultural understandingAbstract
This study aims to enhance multicultural understanding through information services using an educational cinema technique among seventh-grade students at Brigjend Katamso Private Junior High School, Medan. The study employed Guidance and Counseling Action Research (GCAR) conducted in two cycles, Cycle I and Cycle II. Each cycle comprised planning, implementation, observation, and reflection, while Cycle II concluded with an evaluation. The participants were 37 students selected through a screening process. Data were collected using a 39-item multicultural understanding test that had undergone validity, reliability, item-difficulty, discrimination, and distractor-effectiveness testing. Data were analyzed descriptively by comparing scores and percentages before and after the educational cinema-based information service. The pre-cycle percentage of multicultural understanding was 40.8%. Following the intervention in Cycle I, it increased to 72%, representing a 31.2-percentage-point increase. In Cycle II, the percentage increased further to 92.2%, representing an additional 20.2-percentage-point increase from Cycle I. Overall, multicultural understanding increased by 51.4 percentage points from the pre-intervention stage to Cycle II. These findings indicate that educational cinema-based information services can be used as a guidance and counseling strategy to strengthen students’ multicultural understanding.
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