R.R. Prayuda, Ratnawulan
To implement optimal learning process, one component of a learning process that is student's characteristic should be analyzed. This analysis must be considered in preparing teaching materials and learning resources. These characteristics concern in student's interests and talents, learning styles, basic skills and background. Student analysis for book development is very necessary to know how the book will be developed based on the analysis result. This research is done by a combination method that is qualitative and quantitative. Based on the data obtained, the student's initial competence that needs to be analyzed is in the attitude aspect, knowledge and skills. The result of this analysis showed that in the knowledge aspect, the score was 81.25%. This obtained a high score because students are happy with factual learning based on everyday life and facts that is close to students. In the skill aspect, the result is 81,02%, this value is included in category both because of reasoning indicator, students able to make a conclusion based on the result of practice. Good attitude aspects of the spiritual and social attitudes are in a good category, so this aspect is higher than other aspects. Results of this study are used to obtain the student's data used for developing integrated science students' book design. © 2019 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Negeri Padang, Indonesia
