Development of Contextual Based Entrepreneurship Materials for Vocational Secondary School Students (SMK) Negeri 8 Medan

Schools should always improve the competence of
graduates, therefore teachers should continuously improve
capacity and capability in order to improve the quality of the
graduates is one of them through the development of innovative
teaching materials. This study aims to: (1) produce teaching
materials that are feasible to use, easy to learn and can be used
for individual learning, (2) to know the effectiveness of teaching
materials developed on contextual based entrepreneurship
subjects. This type of research is development research using
Borg and Gall development model combined with Dick and
Carey learning design model. The research method consists of
two stages, stage I developed the teaching materials and test, and
stage II product effectiveness test. The research was conducted
on the students of class X Vocational High School (SMK) Negeri
8 Medan, with a sample of 47 students Contextual-based
entrepreneurship-based instructional products developed have
been eligible and suitable for use as a learning book, based on
expert material assessment, instructional design, student
responses on individual trials, small group trials, and limited
field trials of developed materials are categorized as excellent so
they are acceptable and worthy of use as teaching materials. It
was concluded that the effectiveness of the use of contextual
based teaching materials was 27.37%.