A. Hakikat Penelitian Pengembangan
Menurut Gay (1990) Penelitian Pengembangan adalah suatu usaha untuk mengembangkan suatu produk yang efektif untuk digunakan sekolah, dan bukan untuk menguji teori. Sedangkan Borg and Gall (1983:772) mendefinisikan penelitian pengembangan sebagai berikut:
Educational Research and development (R & D) is a process used to develop and validate educational products. The steps of this process are usually referred to as the R & D cycle, which consists of studying research findings pertinent to the product to be developed, developing the products based on these findings, field testing it in the setting where it will be used eventually, and revising it to correct the deficiencies found in the filed-testing stage. In more rigorous programs of R&D, this cycle is repeated until the field-test data indicate that the product meets its behaviorally defined objectives. Read the rest of this entry »
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