Development of a Reference Handbook Based on Contextual Teaching Learning in Curriculum Studies Course

Abstract

The study aims to find out the implementation of reference handbook based on CTL. Design of the study is a modified Research and Development (R&D) developed by Borg and Gall. Subjects in this study are students of Chemical Education Major in Islamic University of Indonesia in the odd semester of academic year 2016/2017. The reference handbook arranged has been validated by academics and practitioners and categorized as "Very Good" with score 92.29% and 92.09% respectively. Furthermore, the reference handbook was also tested in the Preliminary Field Testing phase and scored 88.89% with the category "Very Good". After the reference handbook was revised following the phase, it was re-tested at the Main Field Testing phase and scored 89.09% with the category "Very Good". Based on these results, the reference handbook has been developed can be implemented in the Curriculum Studies course very well.