PENGEMBANGAN BUKU SISWA BERBASIS INKUIRI PADA POKOK BAHASAN PENCEMARAN DAN KERUSAKAN LINGKUNGAN UNTUK MENINGKATKAN HASIL BELAJAR SISWA KELAS VII SMP NEGERI 1 MAESAN BONDOWOSO

Abstract

Abstract.Inqury approach is considered to be able to improve student’s intellectual potentially informulates the problem, making hypothesis, collecting the data, testing the hypothesis, and making conclusions. This research intended to know the  quality of inquiry-based student book that have been developed and toincrease the student achievementsafter uses inquiry-based student bookon the pollution and environmental damage subject for VII grade of state junior high school 1 Maesan Bondowoso. This research refered to Borg and Gall model, but it is restricted untilthe seventh step (research and information collecting, planning, develop preliminary form of product, preliminary field testing, main product revision, main field testing, operational product revision). This research used 5 validators to assess the quality of the book and, 12 students in preliminary field testing and 21 students in main field testing. Data obtained from student and teacher questionnaires, validator sheets, questionnaires of the legitility and difficulty level, pretest, postest and student’s response questionnaires. The result of this research showed that inquiry-based student book can improve average of student achievements by 25,90.

Key Words:Borg and Gall Model, inquiry, pollution and environmental damage, student book.