THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ROLE PLAYING APPROACH TO CONTROL THE STUDENTS' AGGRESSIVENESS IN NATURAL SCIENCE LEARNING PROCESS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN KOTA PADANG
To help Elementary School students in mastering Natural Science learning materialsI and to increase their achievement in Final Examination, conventional approach is stillI '"requently used. Consequently, students-oriented learning strategies that could reflect the1 students' daily experiences are less prioritized. Nowadays, violence perpetrated by students rom �lementary School to university levels either. published _or_ unp�blished k�eps ncreasmg, Some of them are the brawl, peers defamation, and sadistic actions committedi 'Jy several students in an Elementary School in Bukittinggi. This research seeks to reveali • he effectiveness of role playing approach in Natural Science learning process in controllingI he Elementary School students' aggressiveness.This quasi experimental research applied quantitative approach. The population of he research was Elementary School students in Simpang Haru Kota Padang. By using:luster Random Sampling, the students in class IV B were chosen as the experimental' group and those in class IV A were taken as the control one. The data were obtained:hrough interview and observation. The data collected then were analyzed by usingWilcoxon Signed Ranks Test and Kolmogorov Smirnov 2 Independent Samples.Based on the results of the research, it is figured out that: (1) the aggressiveness of.he students in the experimental class taught by using Role Playing approach in pretest fiffers from that in posttest, (2) the aggressiveness of the students in the control class taught by using conventional approach in pretest does not differ from that in posttest, and'.3) the aggressiveness of the students in the experimental class taught by using RolePlaying approach differs from that of students in the control class taught by using:onventional approach. In general, it is revealed that the aggressiveness of the students rior to the implementation of Role Playing approach was negative, but it becomes positive fter that approach is applied. Hence, the use of Role Playing approach is effective to ontrol the aggressiveness of the Elementary School studen