The Influence of the Beyond Centers and Circles Time (BCCT)Approach and the DRILL Method on Children's CognitiveDevelopment in PAUD Ambon City

This research aims to determine the effects of the drill method, the BCCT approach, and a combination of both (the drill method and BCCT approach) in improving children’s cognitive development in PAUD Ambon City. This research uses an ex po facto research design. The subject of this research is the grades of Xaferius Kindergarten students in Ambon City in 2022 using the drill method on 15 students in the age group of 5-6 years. The learning outcomes of 25 students involved in this research was studied. The subjects in this research were homogeneous according to the characteristics of the learning method. The data were collected through 1). The scores obtained by students in the school on the pretest. 2). Conduct the treatment during 6 meetings. 3). Conduct the post test. In this research, the data collected was analyzed using analytical techniques: 1). Descriptive analysis was used to describe inferential variables, and 2). In inferential statistics, the level of students’ cognitive development of students who were given BCCT treatment was higher compared to the group of students who were given drill method treatment. Through the test criteria, if tcount ≤ ttable then H0 is accepted, it turns out tcount ≤ ttable, is -23,216 > 0.000, so H0 is rejected and H1 is accepted. Where the calculated t value is greater than the r table, it indicates that there are differences between the two groups so that the BCCT learning approach is good to use in developing the cognitive development of children aged 5-6 years. Keywords: beyond centers and circles time (BCCT) approach, drill method, cognitive development