Improving the martial art skills and physical fitness quality of students grade VII through e-module development

Limited teaching materials are one of the obstacles to achieve learning goals and students' physical fitness. The purpose of developing the Sport and Health Physical Education module of martial art material is accompanied by physical fitness activities of students grade VII in improving the students' physical fitness. This research used Research and Development Borg and Gall model consisting of potential and problems, data collection, product design, design validation, design revision, product trials and product revision. The research population was lecturers, teachers and students grade VII of Private Junior High Schools in Padang with a data collection process using validation sheets for validators and questionnaire sheets for students. The data collection technique was total sampling. The assessment of the skills of learners was carried out by a martial art expert based on the skill assessment grid in the school. Meanwhile, the physical fitness instrument for students uses the Harvard step up test. The data analysis techniques used are the assessment scale and percentage range showed that 1) The resulting module was very feasible to be used as teaching material for martial art material accompanied by physical fitness training activities for students grade VII with a percentage number. 2) Learning using e-modules can improve the ability of students' basic martial art technical skills. 3) Physical fitness training activities combined in martial art skills had a positive impact on improving the students' physical fitness. It is concluded that based on valid test results, the Pencak Silat learning e-module supported by Physical Fitness training as teaching material for Pencak Silat material is very feasible to be used as teaching material and improve students' physical fitness.