Rahmawati, Ahmad Fauzi, Syafriani
Students' preparedness towards volcanic eruptions should be encouraged early through education. Learning science that contains volcanic eruption theme has been done as the preparedness effort. Preparedness parameters are measured by knowledge and attitude. This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of integrated science textbook theme of volcanic eruption to improve the students' preparedness. The research method used is quasi experiment with one-group pretest-posttest design conducted on 32 students of seventh grade student in junior high school 1 Solok. The students' preparedness parameter is measured by the knowledge test sheet and the attitude questionnaire. Data were analyzed using statistic descriptive, n-gain, and effect size. The results shows the students' preparedness on knowledge and attitude parameters are in the medium category and effect size are in strong effect. Thus, scince textbook on volcanic eruption theme with the CPS model is effective to improve students' preparedness. © 2019 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Negeri Padang, Jl. Prof Hamka, Padang, 25131, Indonesia
