This inquiry was driven by concerns regarding the low proficiency in students' conceptual understanding of the IPAS subject. The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of e-comic learning media based on local wisdom on students' conceptual understanding of cultural diversity and its preservation in Grade IV of SD Negeri 5 Mendo Barat. The sample in this study consisted of all enrolled fourth-graders who met the inclusion criteria, establishing a comprehensive single-group cohort for the intervention 20 students in grade IV of SD Negeri 5 Mendo Barat, with a saturated sampling technique. The instrument used was a test instrument in the form of essay questions to measure students' conceptual understanding. The data analysis techniques used by the researcher were normality tests with the Shapiro-Wilk test criterion and hypothesis testing using a paired sample t-test. Based on the results of the study, the normality test shows that the pretest results have a significance value of (0.112 > 0.05) and the posttest results are (0.371 > 0.05), so the data results are declared to be normally distributed. The hypothesis test results using the paired-sample t-test showed that there was to understand the subject matter by bridging abstract topics with concrete local wisdom elements concept of cultural diversity and its preservation in grade IV of SD Negeri 5 Mendo Barat.
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