Playstore-based Animal Encyclopedia

Farida Nur Kumala

, Dwi Agus Setiawan

, Muhammad Nur Hudha

, Mohammad Amin

, and

Muhana Gipayana

Universitas Kanjuruhan Malang, Jl. S. Supriadi 48, Malang, Indonesia

Universitas Negeri Malang, Jl. Semarang, No.5, Malang, Indonesia

faridankumala@unikama.ac.id

Keywords: Playstore, Animal, Science Encyclopedia, Elementary School.

Abstract: The purpose of this research is to develop a playstore-based the encyclopedia. The Development is done

through the stages of needs analysis using questionnaires and observation sheets. Furthermore, the results of

the development obtained from the questionnaire that has been disseminated to material experts, media and

languages are analysed using descriptive quantitative analysis techniques. Playstore-based the encyclopedia

gets valid value from material expert, media and language, in the other hands according to teacher and

student of encyclopaedia that developed able to increase student learning motivation. This motivation arises

because the presentation of encyclopaedias that lead to online games and easily accessible at home and

school, so that students do not feel learning to be a burden. Learning while playing will make students feel

comfortted, relaxed and able to improve students' understanding in learning science. It is expected that the

results of this study can be useful for the development of student learning motivation at the primary school

level.

1 INTRODUCTION

Playstore is currently used by many people, both for

learning and playing. Juraman (2014): 1) Playstore

has many interesting applications and supports all

types of mobile phone based on android. 2) There

are many interesting games, 3) Easily accessible, to

open the Play Store shortly and do not take up much

internet quota, 4) Has many categories include,

games, news, music 5) Always update, apps from

Google play will continue to update.

An application in playstore that provides

electronic encyclopedia form. Several electronic

encyclopedias have been developed such as the

encyclopedia of power engineering (Ochkov, 2007);

media pedia (Hong et.al, 2013); Chinese

encyclopedia (Upadhyaya, 2013); So far the

encyclopedia has also been developed in some web

but considered less credible (Kubiszewski,

Noordewier and Costanza, 2011) because there is no

person in charge of the writer such as human

encyclopedia, religion, world, plant and animal etc,

moreover the existing encyclopedia is not

comprehensive and sometimes there are some

technical problems such as broken links etc. One

example is the animal encyclopedia, so far in the

playstore there are various animal encyclopedias that

have been developed, but the animal encyclopedia is

still fragmented into sections such as the special

encyclopedia of mammals, birds, reptiles. So, to read

as a whole we must install some applications the

encyclopedia on android system.

In addition, the existing encyclopedia is still in

general, not developed specifically in accordance

with the curriculum, the encyclopedia developed

according to the curriculum will facilitate the child

in learning and facing the tasks and problems in the

classroom. When the encyclopedia is developed in

accordance with the curriculum will make children

learn while playing, develop literacy reading and can

help students' academic development. Based on this,

the aim of this study is to try to develop a special

animal encyclopedia that is associated with a

playstore-based elementary school curriculum.

2 METHOD

This research is a Research and Development

research using 4D Thiagarajan stages depicted in

Figure 1. The subjects in this study were 5th grade

elementary school students in three sample schools

in Malang City, amounting to 80 students.

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Figure 1: Stage of Development.

In Figure 1. the define stage begins with needs

analysis of the field such as book analysis,

encyclopedia, learning difficulties and learning

styles of current elementary students using

observation sheet. The results of further observations

are analyzed and reviewed by the literature.

Furthermore, the results of the analysis serve as the

basis for developing encyclopedia by analyzing the

standart-competance, basic-competance concept of

animals at the primary school level into a map of

material concepts, learning objectives and indicators

of students' material understanding.

The results of the analysis at the define stage

were developed at the design stage. This stage

develops concept maps into conceptual materials as

well as quizzes on every concept established in the

encyclopedia and quiz drafts. This encyclopedia

draft is further designed in a playstore app. The

design completed with a quiz on each animal

material shown in Figure 2.

The design results are then validated to content,

language and media experts, teachers and students as

application users. Expert validation consists of

lecturers who are competent in the IPA keSDan and

lecturers language to SDan, while media experts is a

professional in the field of graphic design and

application. For teacher subjects selected by teachers

as much as 3 people to assess and provide advice on

the application, the teacher selected is a teacher who

has experience of teaching over 10 years, while the

number of students involved in this study as many as

15 students are randomly taken from grade 3, 4 and

5 in SDN in Sukun district.

Figure 2: Stage of design in Playstore

The validation data for the research subjects used

a questionnaire containing the assessment statements

using a scale rating accompanied by columns to

provide suggestions for the applications that have

been developed. The following is an assessment of

the rating scale given to experts, teachers and

students. As follows, 1: not worthy, 2: decent

enough, 3: decent and 4: very decent.

The results of the assessment then analyzed

descriptively using the formula and criteria as

follows:

Information:

X = average score

Σ▒x = total score

N = number of appraisers

Guidelines for classification of playstore-based

encyclopedia applications are shown in table 1.

Table 1: The guidelines for classification of playstore-

based encyclopedia application.

Interval Score

Criteia

X > 3,4

Best

2,8 < X ≤ 3,4

Good

2,2 < X ≤ 2,8

Enough

1,6 < X ≤ 2,2

Less

X ≤ 1,6

Very less

Final preliminary analysis

Student analysis

Task analysis

Concept analysis

Preparation

of the test

Media design

Strategy selection

Draft

Expert and user validation

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The results of the analysis determine the

validity of the product and the product revision to be

the final product.

3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

The results can be described as follows:

a. the results of the define stage indicate that there

are some deficiencies in the reading book and the

IPA package used by the students, the book used is

still a lot of books containing information of text.

This causes the enthusiasm of reading low students

about 25% of all student subjects. Whereas from the

results of student observations in general learning

styles are shown in table 2.

Table 2: Tabel gaya belajar siswa.

Learning Style

Male

Female

Visual

64%

52%

Audio

10%

28%

Kinestetik

26%

20%

Based on table 2, it is known that students more

visual learning styles, consider it, the development

of appropriate learning is to use visual media to

facilitate students in learning. Followed by the

results of the analysis of the book, it is known that

the existing animal encyclopedia is not yet complete,

not yet adapted to the concept, characteristic of

elementary school students and the elementary

school curriculum, it is also found so many

electronic encyclopedia that there are many

applications cannot be downloaded intact or has an

error. A good book is when the book fits the reader's

characteristic.

The results of the next, needs analysis

developed the concept map of animal matter on the

SD curriculum shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3: Mind Map of Encyclopedia.

The results of the design stage of the Playstore-

based animal encyclopedia are equipped with an

opening, the stage of each material according to the

type of animal to be discussed. At the end the types

of animals are equipped with quizzes to make the

students happy and feel the learning as playing. At

the end of each item, a quiz is given to improve

students' understanding of learning. The results of

the design display shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4: Flow level image on encyclopedia and Example of animal encyclopedia.

Animal’s body system

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Figure 5: Examples of games in playstore-based animal encyclopedias.

Validation Result are shown in Table 3:

Table 3: Expert validation and teacher class of IV result.

Expert

Assessment

result

Criteria

Application

3,6

Very good

Content

3,8

Very good

Language

3,8

Very good

Teacher

3,5

Very good

Based on the results of expert’s validation

described in table 3. It is known that the playstore-

based encyclopedia scores very well and is valid

with little advice and revision from the expert.

4 CONCLUSIONS

Playstore based encyclopedia get valid value from

material expert, media and language, besides

according to teacher and student of encyclopedia

that developed able to increase student learning

motivation. This motivation arises because the

presentation of the encyclopedias that lead to online

games and easily accessible at home and school, so

that students do not feel learning to be a burden

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