Developing story-writing textbook: (integrative thematic character building base learning) ; for fourth grade elementary students in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia

Abstract

This research was aimed to (1) describe the teacher teachers’ and students’ need on story-writing textbook; (2) develop the textbook prototype; (3) describe text book prototype development into textbook; (4) find the effectiveness of the application of the story-writing textbook; and (5) find out the acceptance of storywriting textbook. Research and Development (R & D) method was used in this research. The research was done in four steps, they are exploration stage, development stage, effectiveness testing stage, and dissemination. Result of the exploration stage showed that the quality of the Indonesian Language textbooks for fourth grade elementary students in Surakarta had not been appropriate to the teachers and the students, moreover on the story-writing materials. Steps which were done in developing stage were forming the materials outline for story-writing textbook, creating the Integrative Thematic Character Building Base learning procedure, determining the learning scoring system, and editing the Integrative Thematic Character Building Base Story-Writing Textbook. To ensure the excellence of the textbook, validation from the textbook expert and Indonesian Language learning expert were done. The result of the revision was tested on preliminary testing and main field testing in four elementary schools in Surakarta. Statistical test was done through non-independent T-test. The result showed that to (6.11) > tt (1.67) which means the hypothesis was accepted (Ho was rejected). The try-out of the textbook model showed that the textbook was acceptable to be used for the fourth grade students of elementary school. Experiment was done to measure the effectiveness of the textbook through statistical test using non-independent T-test. The result showed that to (24.75) > tt (1.66), thus the hypothesis was accepted (Ho was rejected). The result of the effectiveness test showed that the textbook was stated effective. The feasibility test to show the stakeholders’ responds toward the new textbook has been developed and experimented. Thus, the new textbook was stated feasible.