Development of biology teaching management textbooks based on competency and conservation to maximize Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (PCK) the prospective teachers

Abstract

The objectives of this research are: (1) to examine the feasibility of competences and conservation-based textbook of Biology teaching management, (2) to test the effectiveness of the developed textbooks in the small and large-scale test. This study is an Educational Research and Development (R & D) following the stages of potential and problems analysis, data collection, product design, product validation, trial usage, product revision, and mass production. The results of the feasibility assessment of the product by the expert, the textbook have content the very feasible criteria (77,88), and media experts gave very feasible criteria (83,35). In the small-scale test, the students responded that the book had met the criteria of excellent legibility, on 14 indicators of product legibility with an average legibility value of 90,07. The textbook legibility is excellent since the sentence is understandable and communicative, has illustration adequacy, easy to use, relevant to the competences achievement, as well as there is the integration of conservation character values and TPACK description. The large-scale test showed that the application of the developed textbook was effective in maximizing the ability of prospective teachers’ PCK. It is found that competences and conservation-based Biology Teaching Management textbook are very feasible and powerful to maximize the PCK of prospective biology teachers.