The Development of Digital-Based Teaching Materials to Improve Student Ability in Developing Economic Learning Tools

Education personnel institutions (LPTK) are suspected of not being able to
produce competent teacher candidates. The teaching materials used are still
conventional, therefore information and communication technology (ICT) in the
learning process is necessary to apply through digital-based learning. This
research aims to: (1). identify the learning needs of the economics learning
planning course desired by students. (2). test the feasibility of the developed
digital-based economic learning planning teaching materials (3). tested the
effectiveness of using digital-based economic learning planning teaching
materials which were developed to improve students' ability to develop economic
learning tools. This study used research and development (R & D) methods. The
population were 115 students consisting of classes A, B and C who were attending
economic learning planning courses. The sample for this study were students in
the third semester of the business education study program, which consisted of
two classes A and B. Class A consisted of 40 students as an experimental class and
class B as a control class consisting of 40 students. The sampling technique used
a random sampling technique. Data collection was carried out by conducting
formative evaluations and limited trials one by one after the learning process. The
results of this study indicate that digital-based teaching materials are appropriate
and effective for use in planning economic learning. The t-test at α 0.05 states that
the learning outcomes of planning economic lessons taught using digital-based
teaching materials are higher than the group of students who are taught without
digital-based teaching materials.