DEVELOPMENT OF THEATER EDUCATION TEKSBOOK WITH CHARACTER EDUCATION AND LOCAL WISDOM THROUGH ACTIVE LEARNING TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS SCRIPT WRITING ABILITY

The purpose of this study was to describe: (1) the students’ and lecturers’ needs on the Theater Education Textbook, (2) the development of the textbook model, (3) the effectiveness testing on the designed textbook, (4) the result of the textbook dissemination. The type of research used was research and development by Borg and Gall. Research was done through 4 stages: (1) exploration, (2) model development, (3) model testing, and (4) dissemination. The research approach used in the exploration stage was qualitative descriptive approach. Data collection was done through documentation study, observation, in-depth interview, and questionnaire. The data collected were analyzed using interactive analysis model. Model testing was done by experimental research. The results of this research were: (1) exploration stage showed that the Theater Education Textbook used in Undergraduate Elementary Teacher Education (ETE) Program of Sebelas Maret University, Muhammadiyah University, and Slamet Riyadi University Surakarta, Indonesia did not met the students’ and lecturers’ needs, (2) the theater education textbook was developed through preliminary field testing; and (3) testing phase of textbook effectiveness was done through main field testing. The value of t-obtained was 0.17 and t-table (0.05; 173) = 1.64. Thus, the critical area {t <-1.64 or t> 1.64}. Since t-obtained (0.17)< t-table (1.64)  H 0 : μ1 ≠μ2 was accepted. This means that the theater script writing textbook with character education and local wisdom was able to improve the students’ script writing ability.