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DOI: 10.15294/dp.v13i2.15540
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Ikhsananto, Aan & Sutirman. (2018). Effectiveness of Rapid Typing Software and
Module for Improving 10 Finger Typing Skills. Dinamika Pendidikan, 13(2), 228-
237.
© 2018 Universitas Negeri Semarang
Correspondence Author: p-ISSN 1907-3720
Jl. Colombo No.1, Karang Malang, Caturtunggal, Kec. Depok, Kabupaten Sleman, e-ISSN 2502-5074
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each finger performs a stroke according to its have not maximized their typing skill. They
own task without using the sense of sight to are difficult to apply techniques ten-finger ty-
find the desired keyboard keys. ping correctly. They are only concerned with
Improving typing skills can help stu- the results, so the speed and accuracy are
dents use computers to handle different types less noticed. Keyboarding is a complex skill
of tasks to be more efficient. Poole and Pre- that requires the consentration of linguistic,
ciado (2016) explained that teachers felt touch cognitive and sensory-motor skills. It is not
typing skills were important and that a lack a simple skill to acquire and maintain, and
of touch typing proficiency would negative- achieving fluency while keyboarding requires
ly impact student performance on a standar- many hours of practice (Preminger, Weiss &
dized test. Typing on a computer has several Weintraub, 2004). The use of learning media
advantages that students get. First, the product besides aiming to facilitate the delivery of ma-
tends to be neater, more legible, and more ac- terial from teacher to the student can also inc-
curate than a handwritten. Second, the writing rease interest and willingness of students in a
process is more efficient, since students can subject (Saeroji, 2014). Therefore, the position
more easily correct typing and spelling errors. of learning media in the world of education
Children are also less hesitant to reevaluate is needed.
and edit their written work produced on the The effort to improve typing skills was
computer. As a result, the productivity and done by implementing rapid typing software
quality of their written work may be increased and modules. This software is a special pro-
(Preminger, Weiss & Weintraub, 2004). gram to practice the typing skills of ten fingers
Typing skills consist of two components, correctly. In addition, this software can also
typing speed and typing accuracy. Ten-finger monitor the level of speed and accuracy of ty-
typing speed is usually measured on two sca- ping students. McGlashan, Blanchard, Syca-
les, namely CPM (Characters Per Minute) and more, Lee, French, and Holmes (2017) add
WPM (Word Per Minute). CPM is the num- that the software used graphically presented
ber of true words typed in one minute, while hand and finger placement for each key was
WPM is the number of standard words that self-paced and had short lessons with visu-
are five letters typed in one minute. WPM can al reinforcers. Chwirka, Gurney & Burtner
be obtained from CPM divided by five (Su- (2002) argue that students were highly motiva-
lastri, 2014). Type accuracy is measured by a ted to pursue this type of intervention because
percentage scale (%). An expert touch typist they enjoyed the use of a computer.
can easily achieve 50 wpm and even 100 wpm. Skills possessed by a typist is that he is
These self-taught typists use two or three fin- able to type without looking at the keyboard,
gers per hand, and may look for each key as the fingers automatically press the keyboard
they are typing (Baker & Redfern, 2007). keys without being forced. A typist is comp-
Based on the results of examination letely focused on typed text. In addition, a
subjects of Office Technology on the compe- typist also needs to pay attention to the time
tence of typing skills class X Automatic Ex- in completing the task. Therefore it takes soft-
pertise and Office Governance in SMK N 7 ware that can be used to practice typing skills,
Yogyakarta semester one batch 2017/2018. one of the software is rapid typing.
Retrieved data of daily test results and mid- Sutirman (2012) explains software
term exam results that have not reached the rapid typing is a special application program
target. The target is 100% students reach the developed to train typing skills. Sulastri (2014)
minimal mastery criteria established by the also explains software rapid typing is one soft-
school, which is a value of more than or equal ware to help learn to type fast. With the help
to 75 without remedial process. of this app can train our fingers to be used for
Based on the observation, students fast typing. In line with previous opinions, ra-
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pid typing application is an application used the typist is perfect or still not perfectly typed.
to train typing ten fingers with training speed It can all be seen in the statistics that will ap-
and accuracy of typing (Setyawati, 2016). It pear at the end of the typist following the les-
can be concluded that rapid typing software son (Sulastri, 2014). Thus, the existence of a
is an application program used to help learn rapid typing software can help students learn,
typing skills with speed training and accuracy understand and practice skills and increase
of typing. 10-finger typing skills easily.
This program is published by a site Utilization of rapid typing software pro-
http://www.rapidtyping.com. Rapid typing gram can improve typing speed of ten fingers
software has features that can monitor the le- students with average speed from 98.53 CPM
vel of speed and accuracy of typing students. in pre test to 190.06 CPM in post test. This
In addition, student progress and achievement software increased the accuracy of typing ten
from beginning to end training can be kno- fingers with an average accuracy of 88.33% in
wn. The display of rapid typing software is pre test to 96.06% in post test, so that students
also quite interesting. Dynamic and colorful can be declared skilled (Setyawati, 2016). Su-
display of images and text is the main attrac- lastri (2014) stated that the use of rapid typing
tion. The presence of music background ac- software program can increase the lecture ap-
companiment also adds to the advantages of peal, increase the seriousness, the speed and
this program. accuracy of typing. Other research shows that
the use of rapid typing software can impro-
ve the attractiveness of typing manuals for
students and can increase the seriousness of
students in following the lectures (Sutirman,
2012).
This research aimed to know the effec-
tiveness of rapid typing software and module
for improving students typing skills. There are
two hypotheses in this research. First, there
are differences in the effect of rapid typing
software and module for student typing skills.
Secondly, there is a significant effect of using
Figure 2. Rapid Typing rapid typing software on student typing skills.
The purpose of the agency will be easily
This software is equipped with several achieved if the work is completed effectively.
worksheets that must be done by students. According to Sedianingsih, Mustikawati &
The worksheets provided in this program ran- Soetanto (2010) that effective is doing the right
ge from basic typing exercises in the form of things to target the right, so that the desired
alphabetical typing to complex skill training target can be achieved. Hadade (2015) argue
in the form of an english text typing exercise. that effectiveness basically can be shown at
How to type with ten fingers using rapid ty- the level of achievement of results. However,
ping software is just by following the letters in effectiveness is not only oriented to the results
the rapid typing display by pressing the same but also the existing process of achieving go-
letter on the keyboard, do according to the let- als.
ters printed on the screen, if there is an empty Based on the description above, it can
one we just press the space bar, do it carefully be concluded that effective is a state indicating
until the lesson is over. In the rapid typing soft- the extent to which the plan can be achieved.
ware, there are also statistics on the results of The more plans that can be achieved, the more
the lessons that have been followed, whether effective the activity will be. Thus, the effecti-
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veness can be defined as the level of success improving typing skills required indicator to
that can be achieved from a particular way or interpret it. Typing skills consist of sub speed
business in accordance with the objectives to and sub accuracy. On the sub competence of
be achieved typing speed the measurement used units of
KPM (Keystrokes per Minute).
MethoDS KPM is the number of keystrokes in
a one minute period of time, with formula
The research was a pre-experimental KPM = (Keystrokes without errors + keystro-
design that generally aimed to know the in- kes with errors)/time spent in minutes. On the
fluence of rapid typing software and module sub-competence of typing accuracy the me-
in the learning process. The specific purpose asurement used percentage. Typing accuracy
of research was to know the change of typing is defined as the percentage of correct entries
skill before and after the application of rapid out of the total entries typed, with formula:
typing software and module in the experiment Accuracy = (100% - incorrect keystro-
group. This research used quasi-experimental kes*100%)/total number of keystrokes. The
research, because the class had been deter- instrument of data collection in this research
mined by the school and researchers cannot using the script of typing skill made by Natio-
create a new class. Hence, researcher used an nal Education Standards Agency. Data ana-
existing class to determine the group. Pre-ex- lysis technique used descriptive analysis and
perimental design analysed one group pre-test MANOVA test. While the prerequisite test
and post-test design. This design was pre-test used the data normality test results.
before treatment and post-test after treatment,
so it can be compared before and after treat- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
ment and the detail is shown at Table 1.
The experimental group learning pro-
Table 1. Research Design: One Group Pre- cess was conducted in class X OTKP 2 with
test and Post-test Design the number of 30 students. In the experimen-
tal group applied rapid typing software and
supported by rapid typing module. There were
Pre-test Treatment Post-test
5 meetings. The 1st meeting was pre-test was
O1 X O2 continued by introducing rapid typing softwa-
Source: Processed Primarry Data (2018) re and module, the 2nd, 3rd meeting, the 4th
was trained using rapid typing software and
Description: modules, and the last meeting is the warm-up
X1: giving treatment to experimental group by exercise and ends with the post-test.
using rapid typing and module in learning The results of statistical tests that exp-
O1: giving pre-test to experimental group lain that there are differences in the average
O2: giving post-test to experimental group results of pre-test and post-test typing skills.
In the post-test result, sub competence typing
The population of the study was 62 speed had an average of 197.49 KPM and
students of class X the program of Automa- the average pre-test of 142.50 KPM. Then on
tic Expertise and Office Governance 1 and 2 the sub-competence subtitles typing post-test
in SMK N 7 Yogyakarta. Samples were 30 average was 97.97% and pre-test average was
students of class Automatic Expertise and 96.69%. It can be concluded that there are dif-
Office Governance 2, class selection using ferences in the effect of rapid typing software
simple random sampling technique. To know and module to student typing skills.
the effectiveness of rapid typing software in
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The results of One-Sample Kolmogo- can be concluded that the data is normally
rov-Smirnov Test (Table 3) is known for sig- distributed. Based on the results of Multiva-
nificance value for the experimental group riate Tests using Hotelling’s Trace test (Tab-
which includes pre-test speed of 0.72 and le 4) showed that the significance of 0.000 <
post-test speed of 0.49, pre-test accuracy of 0.05, which can be concluded that the rapid
0.20 and post-test accuracy of 0.11. All the re- typing software and module simultaneously
sults of significance in the experimental group have a significant influence to the typing skills.
were more than the 0.05 significance level. It
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Mean
Source Depent Variable Type III Sum of Squares df F Sig.
Square
Corrected Speed 45353,00 1 45353,00 36,16 ,00
Model Accuracy 24,70 1 24,70 3,30 ,07
Speed 1734000,00 1 1734000,00 1382,81 ,00
Intercept
Accuracy 568446,13 1 568446,13 76123,15 ,00
Speed 45353,00 1 45353,00 36,16 ,00
Group
Accuracy 24,70 1 24,70 3,30 ,07
Speed 72729,93 58 1253,96
Error
Accuracy 433,11 58 7,46
Speed 1852082,94 60
Total
Accuracy 568903,95 60
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Results Test of Between-Subjects Effects ware and module has a significant influence.
(Table 5) shows that partially the significan- Meanwhile, partially indicated that the rapid
ce of the speed is 0,000 < 0.05 which means typing software and module only have a sig-
that the rapid typing software has a significant nificant influence on the sub competence of
effect on typing speed. While the significance typing speed, but no impact on the accuracy
of accuracy of 0.074 > 0.05 which means that of typing. Differences in the results of typing
the rapid typing software does not significant- speed and typing accuracy can be explained
ly affect typing accuracy. The results show that based on observations of the researcher. One
simultaneously the rapid typing software and of the contributing factors was the level of se-
modules has a significant effect on students riousness of learning and practice of different
typing skills, while the test results partially in- students. There were some students who were
dicate that the implementation of rapid typing learning more seriously and who did not. Se-
software and module only have a significant rious students not only focused on speed imp-
influence on the sub competence of typing rovement but tried typing by minimizing ty-
speed, but no impact on the accuracy of ty- ping errors.
ping. The results of this study are in accor-
The first hypothesis explains that the- dance with previous studies conducted by Se-
re are differences in typing skills of students tyawati (2016) stated that the utilization of the
using rapid typing software and module. The rapid typing software can increase the ten-fin-
findings are the post-test result sub compe- ger typing speed of students with an average
tence typing speed has an average of 197.49 speed of 98.53 CPM in the pre-test to 190.06
KPM and the average pre-test of 142.50 KPM. CPM in the post-test. Improved ten-finger
Then, on the sub-competence subtitles typing typing accuracy with an average accuracy of
post-test average of 97.97% and pre-test ave- 88.33% on pre-test to 96.06% on post-test, so
rage of 96.69%. The second hypothesis states students can be declared as “skilled”. Other
that there is a significant effect of using rapid studies show that the use of rapid typing soft-
typing software on student typing skills. Sho- ware can increase the attractiveness of busi-
wed that the significance of 0.000 < 0.05, can ness typing lectures, where students can type
be interpreted as the rapid typing software using ten fingers with the expected speed and
and module simultaneously have a significant accuracy (Sulastri, 2014).
influence to the typing skills. Thus, it can be Limitation of the research are about
concluded that the hypothesis is proven. time and schedule of the rapid typing softwa-
Based on the results of the study, there re on the research could not be controlled by
are differences in the impact of rapid typing the researcher because it followed the school
software and module in improving students schedule. The material taught is limited to
typing skills. The difference is based on the the subject and training. It would be better if
average pre-test and post-test results of typing the teaching teacher continued the material
skills. Improved typing skills are done by ty- available to students to complement the lack
ping training continuously with rapid typing of learning that had been taught. This study
software and modules. The training was held does not take into account other influential
for 5 meetings. The activity began with the variables, so there may be other variables that
pre-test followed by the introduction of rapid influence the results of students typing skills.
typing software and modules, the 2nd, 3rd Hence, the future research needs to consider
meeting, the 4th was trained using rapid ty- other variables. Because this research was an
ping software and modules, and the last mee- experimental research, the researcher would
ting was the warm-up exercise and ended with suggest other learning models such as using
the post-test. typing master software. Therefore, the further
Simultaneously the rapid typing soft- research can be compared with this study.
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