@article{article_628321, title={Effectiveness of Teaching Materials of History to Improve the Political Awareness at SMA Katolik Diponegoro Blitar, Indonesia}, journal={International Journal of Educational Research Review}, volume={4}, pages={536–542}, year={2019}, DOI={10.24331/ijere.628321}, url={https://izlik.org/JA26NG92PL}, author={Kurniawan, Jeffry Dwi and Akhyar, Muhammad and ., Susanto}, keywords={Teaching Materials,Todung Sutan Gunung Mulia,Students’ Political Awareness}, abstract={<p> <span style="left: 316.117px; top: 367.955px; font-size: 13.2px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.94227);">This study aimed to find out the effectiveness of teaching materia </span> <span style="left: 669.083px; top: 367.955px; font-size: 13.2px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.953604);">ls of the struggle of Todung Sutan Gunung </span> <span style="left: 316.117px; top: 384.354px; font-size: 13.2px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.9372);">Mulia to improve the students’ political awareness. This study was conducted in class XI of Specialization in </span> <span style="left: 316.117px; top: 400.755px; font-size: 13.2px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.884858);">Linguistics, Sciences, and Social Sciences for the Indonesian history subject at SMA Katolik Diponegoro </span> <span style="left: 316.117px; top: 417.555px; font-size: 13.2px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.878543);">Blitar. The approach used in this research was the quasi </span> <span style="left: 633.4833333333332px; top: 417.55546666666663px; font-size: 13.2px; font-family: sans-serif;">- </span> <span style="left: 637.883px; top: 417.555px; font-size: 13.2px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.887623);">experimental approach with the pretest posttest </span> <span style="left: 316.117px; top: 433.955px; font-size: 13.2px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.922236);">control group design. The population and sample in this research were determined using the random </span> <span style="left: 316.117px; top: 450.755px; font-size: 13.2px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.926733);">sampling technique. The techniques of analyzing data </span> <span style="left: 607.833px; top: 450.755px; font-size: 13.2px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.920094);">used in this research were normality test, homogeneity </span> <span style="left: 316.117px; top: 467.155px; font-size: 13.2px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.871973);">test, mean similarity test and effectiveness test. The result of the research showed that the students who </span> <span style="left: 316.117px; top: 483.605px; font-size: 13.2px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.898188);">learned the history using the teaching materials of the struggle of Todung Sutan Gunung Mulia </span> <span style="left: 859.167px; top: 483.605px; font-size: 13.2px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.871459);">had the </span> <span style="left: 316.117px; top: 500.405px; font-size: 13.2px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.941459);">higher political awareness if compared to the students who were not provided with the treatment (the lecture </span> <span style="left: 316.117px; top: 516.806px; font-size: 13.2px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.926732);">method). This could be proven that there was a positive and significant improvement after the students were </span> <span style="left: 316.117px; top: 533.205px; font-size: 13.2px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.929145);">provided by the treatment in th </span> <span style="left: 497.8px; top: 533.204px; font-size: 13.2px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.914703);">e experimental classroom. The average score of the students’ political </span> <span style="left: 316.117px; top: 550.006px; font-size: 13.2px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.861353);">awareness which was initially 160.56 increased to 177.64, while the average score in the control classroom </span> <span style="left: 316.117px; top: 566.405px; font-size: 13.2px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.921383);">did not have a positive and significant improvement. The average score of the </span> <span style="left: 745.517px; top: 566.404px; font-size: 13.2px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.923537);">students’ political awareness </span> <span style="left: 316.117px; top: 582.806px; font-size: 13.2px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.906577);">which was initially 163.24 increased to 174.80. The increased score of the political awareness in the control </span> <span style="left: 316.117px; top: 599.605px; font-size: 13.2px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.923153);">classroom was not significant if compared to the experimental classroom </span> <span style="left: 705.0833333333333px; top: 599.6054666666664px; font-size: 13.2px; font-family: sans-serif;">. </span> <br> </p>}, number={4}