Practicalities in the development of integrated science textbook of junior high school drought theme using problem based learning

Abstract

Practicalities refers to the degree that the user or other experts consider interventions can be used and preferred under normal conditions. The purpose of this study was to investigate the practicality of a textbook. The practicality test was conducted with one to one evaluation (3 learners), small group test (8 learners), and field test (30 learners) and 2 teachers using questionnaires. This type of data is primary data. Practical questionnaire prepared for learners with easily understood aspect, attractive, and efficient through the evaluation one by one, with the result of 80.21; 83.33 category of very practical, and 70.83 practical categories. Then, to test the response of learners in small groups, with the result of 81.39; 84.24 category of very practical, and 72.82 practical categories. At the end of the study conducted field tests on the response of learners with the result 82.19; 85.00; 80.00 categories very practical. After that the teacher’s response questionnaire, with the result 87.50; 90.62; 85.00 categories very practical. The practical implication is that textbook is used in the learning process and the learning process using textbook is done.