Development of Social Studies Teaching Materials Based on Local Wisdom of Grade VI Primary School Students in Jekulo, Kudus Regency

Abstract

This study aims to: (1) describe social studies learning based on local wisdom to improve the scientific thinking ability of elementary school students, (2) formulate the development of social studies learning designs based on local wisdom to improve the scientific thinking skills of elementary school, (3) analyze the effectiveness of social studies learning based on local wisdom to improve the scientific thinking skills of elementary school students. This research is development research using the Borg & Gall model. The development steps include: 1) analyzing the needs in elementary schools; 2) develop a preliminary design; 3) validation and revision; 4) limited trials; 5) extensive trials; 6) dissemination. The trial was conducted on 36 teachers at SD 1 and 2 Sadang as experimental classes and 36 teachers, and 36 teachers at SD 3 and 4 Sadang as control classes. Data were collected by observation, questionnaires, tests, interviews. The validation result data is analyzed by accumulating the number of scores. Data on the effectiveness of the local wisdom-based Personality Competency model were analyzed by gain test, t test at a significance level of 0.05. The results of the study showed a significant increase in learning outcomes, namely in the control group, as many as 53.1% had an increase in moderate learning outcomes and 46.9% in the low category. In the experimental group, 58.1% had a moderate increase in learning outcomes and 41.9% were high; (2) Learning outcomes achieve completeness, namely due diligence results for the experimental group of 5.97 with a significance value of 0.000 < 0.05, which means that the average learning outcome of 80.58 markedly exceeds 69 or has reached learning completeness, while in the control group of -0.781 with a significance of 0.441 > 0.05, which means that in the control group has not reached completeness. The completeness of students' classical learning in the experimental class was 87.1%  and in the control, class was 59.4%. The conclusion obtained is that the personality competency design model based on local wisdom improves the performance of elementary school teachers. It is recommended that teachers use a personality competency design model based on local wisdom because it is able to improve the performance of elementary school teachers.