Implementation of Innovative Learning Material to Improve Students Competence on Chemistry

Improving students competence to provide appropriate knowledge and
skills to deal with professional works becomes a challange in education nowdays.
Objectives: This research is aimed to develop and implement an inovative learning
material to be used as learning media in the teaching and learning activities to improve
students’ competence on chemistry. Materials and Methods: The procedures consist
of the development and standardization of an innovative learning material with tasks
instructions, preparation of research instruments of questionnaire and evaluation tests
and implementation of an innovative learning material for teaching and learning activities
in the class. Relevant contextual examples, laboratory works, students’ activities, media
and multimedia and hyperlink to trustworthy websites were integrated into a set of
chemistry material to achieve innovative learning material. The instruction for students
tasks was also included into the learning package to guide the students to achieve
learning goal. Results and Conclusion: Set of learning package has been implemented
as learning media in the experimental class on the teaching of chemistry. Compared to
control class that used the existing textbook, students’ performance in the experimental
class was higher than that in control class. An innovative leaning package was
discovered to be effective to guide the students to learn chemistry independently. The
learning facilities integrated in the learning material help the students to understand
chemistry concepts easily. The students enthusiastic to learn chemistry and familiar to
use scientific documents to complete the given tasks, as well as having improved ability
to write and organize their assignments. Innovative learning material has transformed
the chemistry teaching and learning practice from lecturer oriented to students oriented.