Design of Teman Ritma’s Application to Increase Student’s Problem-Solving Ability

Abstract

Problem solving ability is kind of ability to collect information, analyze situations and identify problems to produce alternatives in decision-making. Learning media that have not yet integrated problem-solving ability need to be developed. Hence, the purpose of this study is to develop android-based learning media to increase student’s problem-solving ability. The data sources in this research are students of seventh grade of SMPN 5 Yogyakarta (public junior high school), learning material validators, and learning media validators. The instruments used in this study are interview guidelines, observations, questionnaires, problem-solving based test, learning material expert questionnaires, and learning media expert questionnaires. Data analysis techniques contain stages of data reduction, displaying data, and conclusions. The results showed that (1) student’s problem-solving ability are relatively low, so an android-based learning media called “Teman Ritma” was developed; (2) creating of application is assisted by Microsoft Office PowerPoint integrated with ISpring suite, and a converter HTML-to-App software called “Website 2 APK Builder”; (3) Teman Ritma’s learning media application contains kind of features as follow: title screen, main menu screen, student’s competencies to be achieved, learning material menu, learning materials that presented using combination of text and video, mini games, exercises task with explanations, and quizzes; (4) validation results of learning materials experts and learning media experts showed that the Teman Ritma’s marked as “excellent criteria” for learning materials aspect, and “good criteria” for learning media aspect. Teman Ritma’s declare valid and eligible to use. This research will continue to implementation and evaluation phase.