The Development of Contextual Teaching and Learning-Based Comic as a Learning Media for Elementary School Students

摘要

The research aimed at developing and testing the validity, practicality, as well as the effectiveness of learning a learning media in the form of comic based on Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) on Social studies. Observation model and development model (R&D) of Borg and Gall used were the research. The result of this research showed that the CTL-based comic is a reasonable, practical and effective media. The use of CTL-based comic gives influence to the learning outcomes of the students. It could be seen through the result of the t-test from the try-out which showed that t_(count) is 2.55 > from t_(table) 2.903. The use of CTL-based comic as a learning media also got good response from the students with percentage 90.5%. Therefore, it could be concluded that CTL-based comic was reasonable, practical and effective to improve the learning outcomes on Social studies lesson of the third-grade students in Elementary School.