DEVELOPMENT OF CHARACTER-BASED STUDENT WORKSHEETS ON THEME 4 VARIOUS WORK SUBTHEME 1 TYPES OF WORK FOR GRADE IV ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

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This research is motivated there are teachers who have not fully applied the character of students based on these problems, so it is necessary to develop a character based student worksheets in accordance with the 2013 curiculum for that writer to be interested in wanting to do a research entitled development of character based student worksheets on thime 4 various work subtheme 1 types of work for grade IV elementary school students.
According to Zulfah (2017) "LKPD is one of the printed teaching materials that can help teachers in achieving learning goals especially to improve students' mathematical problem solving abilities." Generally teachers still use the form of teacher and student books provided by the school. To overcome these problems researchers are interested in developing character-based LKPD.
This type of research is development research with the type of research to be carried out is development research. According to Trianto (2014: 233) that "the development of this model consists of 4-D stages, namely define, design, develop and assess. The research instrument uses validity, practicality and effectiveness sheets. At the Validation stage carried out in this study emphasizes the internal validity (rational) by using the existing criteria in the product development. The observed aspects are material, design and language aspects. To test three aspects of validity the opinions of experts can be used. Practicality Test is conducted after LKPD is validated and feasible to be trialled with the aim of knowing the practicality level of students' work sheets based on character grade IV elementary school conducted by one teacher and 25 students, while in effectiveness using pre test and post test questions as many as 20 questions.
The results showed an average value of validity of 87.5% with valid criteria, an average value of practicality of 95.5% with very practical criteria and an average value of effectiveness of 0.81 with high criteria.
From these data it can be concluded that the development of character-based worksheets is valid, practical and effective in thematic learning in class IV of primary schools.
Keywords: Thematic, Student Worksheets, Character