Movement Skills And Students' Cognitive Function

Abstract

This research is a quantitative study with a correlational design that aims to determine the relationship between movement skills and cognitive function in students of public elementary schools in Kuantan Singingi Regency, Riau Province. The population of this study was students for the 2021/2022 school year, with a population of 37.085 children spread across 256 public elementary schools. The sampling technique used in this research is random sampling. With this technique, I obtained a sample of 4700 students. Methods of data collection using tests and measurements of cognitive function and movement skills Cognitive function uses the Concentration Grid Test (CGT) instrument and movement skills by observing movement learning. The results showed that students' cognitive function was in a good category, and their movement learning was also good. The results of the correlation analysis obtained a correlation coefficient of 0.471 > r_table = 0.160. This shows that there is a significant relationship between movement skills and cognitive function in public elementary school students in Kuantan Singingi District for the 2021/2022 academic year. The conclusion that can be drawn from the results of the research is that one student's movement skills is influenced by cognitive function. Students who have good cognitive function tend to have good movement skills.