The Development of Inquiry-Based Student Worksheets to Improve Activities and Civics Learning Outcomes of Students 2 Bilah Hilir

Abstract

This research is carried out based on problems where the low learning outcomes in civics lesson and the activity of students in the learning process. This is caused by several factors, including the lack of variations in teaching materials used by the teacher and the learning process that only uses conventional methods. It causes the lowness of students’ interest in learning. Therefore, the researchers intend to develop teaching materials in the form of inquiry-based student work sheet in civics subjects in class seven which aims to improve student learning outcomes and activities. Inquiry-based worksheets is teaching materials designed using stages of inquiry learning, namely orientation, formulation of problems , submission of hypotheses, collecting data, test hypotheses and conclusions. Inquiry based worksheets is not only able to improve student learning outcomes but also it increases student activity. It is due to the stages of inquiry requires students to be active and think critically in the learning process. In this study, inquiry based worksheets is developed in accordance with BSNP standards, namely aspect of readability,  graphics, content feasibility, and also fulfilled valid, practical and effective criteria. This study applies the ADDIE development model with stages: analysis, design, development, implementation, evaluation. The data analysis that used in this research are 1) the analysis of the validity of inquiry based student worksheets, 2) the analysis of   the increasing of students’ activity and learning outcome. The result of this research shows that. The  worksheets developed are declared valid and feasible, this is based on the results of the validation stated by the expert team namely material experts 91.7% with the criteria of "very good", the result of validation from linguists is 87.5% with the criteria "good ", And the result of validation from learning design experts is 88.5% with the criteria of" good ". Furthermore, inquiry-based students worksheet is able to improve students’ civics learning outcomes. It obtains the average of g factor0.83 in the "high" category, in addition students also get the average g factor of 0.88 with the category " high "for student learning activities.

Keywords: Worksheets, inquiry, learning outcomes, and learning activities.