The Practicality And Validity Of The Popular Scientific Book Development Survival Plants

The popular scientific book was developed to construct the reader's knowledge in recognizing survival plants in the forest. T he purposed of the development of this book was to help in identifying the wild plants that can be consumed and used as medical material dir ectly in the forest. Besides, the development process, the practicality and validity stages of popular scientific books were inten ded to assess the exactness and easiness of the use of these popular scientific books. Meanwhile, in this research used development method which ADDIE development design and it was consisted of the stages of Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluat e. However, in practicality and validity tests were only carried out at the Develop stage. The material and media validity were tested by the media and material expert team. The instrument was used a validation questionn aire. The practicality level testing was carried out on 25 student’s mountaineering community and this used questionnaire instruments and interview sheets. The research data were analyzed descriptively. Thus, based on the results of the research at the material validation stage it is known t hat the book has an average value of 100% and it means that the book material has been very good and appropriate. Furthermore, the results of the validat or's assessment on the design indicators of the contents of the book got an average value of 94.10% wit h a very good category. The practicality test results were obtained 92.68% with very good category.