IMPROVING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COOPERATIVE GAMES SOCIAL SKILLS EARLY AGE CHILDREN

The purpose of the research is to improve the social skills of children with cooperative games. The benefit is to test the effectiveness of cooperative games in improving social skills. This study uses experimental design pretest posttest control group whose purpose is to measure the condition of the experimental group and control group before and after treatment with the number of each child in a group of 22 people. Characteristics of the sample was aged 5-6 years, have low social skills, 13 men and women 9.Data collected by observation and interview. Analysis technique used is the analysis of variance. The results showed that the cooperative game affect the improvement of social skills of children. Based on these results it is suggested that teachers use cooperative games to improve childrens social skills.