Pictorial Stories as Media of Prime Assistance Learning For Vocational High School Students

摘要

This research is aimed to: 1) find the data of SMK Muhammadiyah 1 Imogiri Special Regency of Yogyakarta's teachers' obstacles in preparing pictorial stories as media of prime assistance learning, 2) produce pictorial stories as media of Prime Assistance learning of X grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 1 Imogiri, Special Regency of Yogyakarta. Methods of this research were the Research and Development methods. The steps of development in this research confirmed Borg & Gall's procedure, namely: (1) research and information collecting; (2) planning; (3) develop preliminary form of product, (4) preliminary field testing; (5) main product revision; (6) main field testing; (7) operational product revision; (8) operational field testing; (9) final product revision; (10) dissemination and implementation. Pictorial stories' qualification as produced media was tested by instructional media expert and learning materials expert. Limited test was also done to 2 X-grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 1 Imogiri. Besides, the field test was done twice, those were: small group test (12 students) and big group test (32 students). The subject of this research is X-grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 1 Imogiri, Special Region of Yogyakarta. Data of this research was analyzed using descriptive statistic. Research findings: 1) the obstacles of SMK Muhammadiyah 1 Imogiri's teachers in preparing pictorial stories as media of prime assistance learning process are: a) the difficulty in making actual pictures to express prime assistance's activities, b) the difficulty in taking their time to produce pictorial stories as media, c) the difficulty in visualizing the prime assistance materials in pictorial stories' plot, d) the difficulty in composing pictorial stories' scripts; 2) pictorial stories with five topics for prime assistance learning process are qualified with high qualification levels by the learning materials expert (mean 3.41), media expert (mean 3.62). The quality of the media is also proved good through the limited test with high qualification level (mean 3.8), the small group test with high qualification level (mean 3.61), and the big group test with high qualification level (mean 3.76).