Need Analysis of Ecology Course Teaching Materials Based on Student Needs
Abstract
One of the important components of the lecture process is the existence of quality teaching materials. Teaching materials will assist students in understanding content delivered by lecturers theoretically or in practice. Results of preliminary study indicate that there are teaching materials unsuitable to student needs. Some students opine that it is difficult to obtain learning sources for the Ecology course. This research aims to find out the results of needs analysis of Ecology course teaching materials that will be used as a basis in preparing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)-based Ecology course module. The method employed in the research is survey method. Data collection were done using survey questionnaire in Google Form. The survey respondents were 104 students of Biology Education in three universities who had taken the Ecology course. The data analysis was done by describing the survey results of need analysis of ecology course teaching materials. The research results suggest that about 52.9% of respondents had difficulties in obtaining ecology learning sources. About 98% of respondents state that most lecturers only used PowerPoint in teaching and did not recommend teaching materials according to the content delivered. Therefore, in certain ecology contents, students encounter difficulties to work on their assignments and understanding the existing content.
Keywords: ecology course, teaching materials, student need
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