Needs Assessment of Teaching Book Development Based on Plants Multiplication Research in Plant Tissue Culture Course

Teaching books are a source of information, tools and teaching materials that are arranged systematically and used in learning process. The purpose of this study was to analyze the need for developing teaching books based on in vitro multiplication of Sipahutar pineapple plants in tissue culture courses. This research method was quantitative descriptive with 44 students as sample from Biology Department of Faculty of Science, Universitas Negeri Medan (Unimed). This research used four-D Models by Thiagarajan. The steps in this research, namely Define, consists a) Front-end analysis, b) Student characteristics analysis, c) Concept analysis, d) Tasks Analysis e) Learning objectives. Data collection was done by distributing open questionnaires. The results indicated that a) The initial preliminary analysis and curriculum shown that students still have difficulty understanding of plant tissue culture material, b) 72% of students had never read research-based teaching books on tissue culture courses, 90% of students agreed with the research-based teaching book c) Concept analysis shown that previous learning has not accommodated the entire curriculum structure, procedural content, the material was not yet research based, d) Completion of tasks, especially those based on research has not been done, e) The need of a variety of learning resources, it was very necessary to develop research-based teaching books.