https://ejournal.unib.ac.id/penapaud <p>PENA PAUD: A multidisciplinary early childhood education research journal published in December 2020 by the Early Childhood Teacher Education Program of the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Bengkulu. JOURNAL PENA PAUD is published twice a year (June and December). The articles published are research articles on early childhood education related to educational services and the community. This journal publication aims to disseminate conceptual thoughts or ideas and research results that have been achieved in educational services that have not been published in other print or online media.</p> UNIB Press en-US JURNAL PENA PAUD 2777-1377 <p>Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:</p> <ol type="a"> <li>Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International </a> that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.</li> <li>Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.</li> <li>Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See <a href="http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html" target="_new">The Effect of Open Access</a>).</li> </ol> https://ejournal.unib.ac.id/penapaud/article/view/41166 <p>The development of interactive media as a type of multimedia teaching aid has a positive impact on children's gross motor skills. This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of interactive media in early childhood education through an experimental study. The study had two participants, 30 children each: An experimental group with interactive teaching media and a control group with conventional teaching methods. Counting skills were assessed before and after the intervention for both groups. Data analysis conducted with a paired t-test showed that the experimental group showed an increase in the mean score from 50 to 80 (t (29) =12.00; p&lt;0.001), indicating a statistically significant difference after the intervention. The Wilcoxon test on the control group showed an increase in the median score from 52 to 60, but did not reach statistical significance (Z=-1.50; p=0.134). The results suggest that the application of interactive teaching media is efficient in improving the counting skills of preschool children compared to traditional methods without focused treatment.</p> Merti Daryati Copyright (c) 2025 Merti Daryati https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 2025-06-01 2025-06-01 6 1 1 13 10.33369/jpp.v6i1.41166