Jurnal Pustaka Indonesia
Vol. 6 No. 2 (2026): May-August

A Blended Instructional Design for Self-Reported Historical ‎Literacy in South Asian History: Development and Initial ‎Evaluation

Septina Alrianingrum (Universitas Negeri Surabaya)
Fadiyah Salsabila (Universitas Negeri Surabaya, Indonesia)
Sumarno (Universitas Negeri Surabaya, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
11 Aug 2026

Abstract

South Asian History courses often rely on dispersed, predominantly foreign-language resources that provide limited scaffolding for interpreting contested narratives and constructing evidence based historical arguments. This study developed and initially evaluated a discipline specific blended instructional package aligning synchronous guidance and asynchronous inquiry with six historical literacy indicators. Using ADDIE and an uncontrolled one-group pretest–posttest field evaluation, the study involved a convenience sample of 76 undergraduate students in three intact classes in the History Education Study Program at Universitas Negeri Surabaya. The package was designed for 16 planned sessions; however, actual instructional dosage and implementation-fidelity indicators were not systematically documented. One subject-matter validator, one media validator, and one learning validator appraised different domains using non-equivalent instruments; their domain-specific ratings ranged from 85.20% to 88.00%, with a descriptive cross-domain mean of 86.93%. Student acceptability averaged 84.82%. Aggregate self-reported historical-literacy scores increased from 51.03 (SD=14.55) to 88.93 (SD=4.91), with a mean change of 37.91, 95% CI [34.53, 41.29], t(75)=22.34, sig < .005, and Cohen’s dz = 2.56. The group-level normalized gain was 0.77 (77.39%), which was descriptively classified as high. These findings indicate high acceptability responses and substantial short term within-group gains in self-reported historical literacy. However, these findings do not establish causal effectiveness or demonstrated historical literacy performance.

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jpi

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Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Other

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Jurnal Pustaka Indonesia published Three times a year (April, Agustus and December ) as a medium of distributing scientific research in the field of language, literature , and the Indonesian language and literature education. Jurnal Pustaka Indonesia is published in collaboration between the Yayasan ...