Analyzing Average Scores in Morality and Ethical Story Creation Tests: A Pre-and-Post Backward Design Evaluation Using T-Test in Educational Systems

Abstract

Fairy tales play a vital role in fostering early childhood development. Learning to create fairy tales, especially fairy tales that can promote morality and ethics for early childhood children, will result in appropriate and sustainable social development for children. As well as resulting in pre-service teachers learning  meaningfully  and  valuablely.  Able  to  innovate  on  their  own  individual  potential  with  a backward design learning model that encourages pre-service teachers and educators to know and understand common goals. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of using a backward design learning  approach  to  teach  moral-ethical  storytelling  to  pre-service  teachers  in  early  childhood education. Specifically, it seeks to compare the story-building skills of such pre-service teachers before and after the application of the aforementioned approach. The study sample comprises 36 second-year early childhood education students from the 2021 academic year. The literature and tales used in the study  were  selected  via  cluster  random  sampling.  The  research  instruments  employed  included backward  design learning  plans and a morality-ethical  storytelling  test, with data analyzed  through average  and  standard  deviation  statistics.  The  findings  indicate  that  the  backward  design  learning approach can develop the creation of moral and ethical tales for pre-service teacher s and the students had higher ethical storytelling skills after the backward design learning management than before the experiment in all aspects. Develop learning skills that can be applied in real life And see the results that can be used in the future, along with cultivating early childhood children to grow up to be good citizens of society with quality.