Development of social studies teaching materials based on local wisdom of the Samin Society Class V Elementary School

Abstract

This study aims to describe the needs of teachers and students for samin society-based learning materials social study class V elementary school, and to analyzing the effectiveness. This research is a development research that uses ten steps, namely analysis of potentials and problems, gathering information, product design, design validation, design revision, product testing, product revision, and use trial, final product revision and dissemination. The practicality test and effectiveness test were conducted on 74 grade 5 students as the experimental class. Data collection used teaching material assessment sheets, practicality questionnaires, and tests of students’ cognitive learning outcomes. Data analysis techniques used validation sheet analysis, practicality questionnaire analysis, teacher and student response questionnaires, and t-test acquisition analysis to determine the effectiveness of samin society-based teaching materials social study. Teaching materials developed with effectiveness data which were then analyzed by normality test, test homogeneity, t test. The results of the t test obtained the value of t = 3.796. The t table value for df = 80 with a significant level of 5% is known to be 1.988. The conclusion is that social studies teaching materials assisted by local wisdom of the samin society are effective in improving social learning outcomes in elementary schools.