The influence of Android-based gymnastics learning media on cartwheel skills

Cartwheels are one of the gymnastics skills in Physical Education (PE) teaching that must be mastered by junior high school students. In their teaching, PE teachers must be able to create innovative and interactive learning, thereby generating student motivation to master this skill. This study aims to analyze the effect of using Android-based gymnastics learning media on cartwheel skills in junior high school students. This research is an application of one of the Android-assisted exercise materials for junior high school students developed from Handayani et al study (Handayani et al., 2023), where one of the gymnastics materials in the application is cartwheel skills which will be reported in this research. This research was a pre-experiment with a one group pretest-posttest design, involving 63 junior high school students in one of the provinces in Indonesia. Participants were seventh and eighth grade male students taking combined PE classes, and aged 12-13 years. The procedure in this research is collecting pretest data for cartwheel skills, using Android-based exercise media for cartwheel material by students, and collecting post-test data. The duration of the meeting was 4 weeks, and the instrument used was a cartwheel skills test, which consisted of initial, main and final phases. Then, the data was analyzed using paired sample t-test. The results of the research show that there are differences in the average of each phase and all phases of cartwheel skills, with pretest data being 62.51 (less) and post-test being 70.13 (enough). Then, the results of the paired sample t-test showed that there was an influence of the use of Android-based gymnastics learning media on cartwheel skills (P