Development of Explanatory Text Teaching Materials Assisted by Digital Scrapbook Media for Class VIII Students of SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Medan

This study was using research and development (R&D) model proposed by Borg
and Gall which aimed to know (1) developing process of teaching material in
explanation text with digital scrapbook, (2) it’s form, (3) feasibility, and (4)
effectiveness. The result of research showed that (1) developing teaching
materials process went through 10 steps which were done well, (2) the from of
teaching materials for explanation text using digital scrapbook with the different
style and content, (3) the validation of teaching materials was appropriated to be
used based on experts' validation got score 91.16% with excellent level and
expert of design average score 86.00% with excellent level, and expert of media
which got score 87.50% with excellent level. The trial of product is alone through
: a) individual assessment avarage score range ini 86.98% with excellent level, b)
Small group discussion's score was 87,11% with excellent level and, c) Limited
field training discussion's score was 88,04% with excellent level, (4) to see the
effectiveness of teaching material for explanation text with paper clip or digital
scrapbook is via prestest assessment was 65.53 to the postes assessment was
82.57. The implications of this study were (1) teaching material was developed
could be used in learning and teaching process, (2) teaching material was
developed could improve insight of teacher in increasing the quality and creating
valuable learning, (3) teaching material was developed can be used as one of
alternative teaching materials in learning of explanation text.