ROLE PLAYING SIMULATION LEARNING METHOD IN DISASTER-PRONE AREAS: IS IT EFFECTIVE IN IMPROVING KNOWLEDGE AND PREPAREDNESS FOR GEOLOGICAL DISASTERS?

Abstract

Indonesia is a disaster-prone country, and one of them is geological disasters. The application of disaster education through simulation methods in educational institutions is expected to be able to make the community have the right knowledge and attitude of disaster response. The purpose of this study was to determine and analyze the knowledge and attitudes of students in higher education in responding to geological disasters through simulation learning methods. The population in this study were students of the Social Sciences Education Study Program from five Islamic universities in East Java, Indonesia and the sample in this study was 378 students. The method used was quantitative with univariate and bivariate data analysis. The results of the study from the analysis stated that there was a significant difference between the knowledge and preparedness of geological disasters in students in the control group and the experimental group with a P value of 0.0001. Thus, the level of knowledge and disaster preparedness in students who received simulation learning was higher than students who did not receive learning with the simulation learning model. The implication of this study is that the simulation learning model can be used as a reference in the implementation of disaster education, especially in disaster-prone areas