The Effectiveness of Multicultural-Based Social Sciences Teaching Materials for Optimizing Nationality Character of Students in Junior High School One Natar South Lampung Regency

This research is motivated by the lack of nationality and multicultural values, the limited number of textbooks in schools that are only received from the government and the lack of interesting books. Then, the need for multicultural-based learning modules that have nationality character values. The research aims to produce IPS multicultural based teaching material products and to analyze the effectiveness of the use of multicultural based IPS teaching materials. This research is a development research (R&D) of Borg and Gall. The module products are validated by learning material experts, learning media or design experts, linguists, social studies teachers and students. The effectiveness of the product is obtained by using a pre-test and post-test (control group design) experimental test. The pre test and post test results of IPS tests were analyzed using t test and normalized gain comparison. Based on the results of data analysis and discussion, the following conclusions are obtained: 1) Learning that uses multicultural-based teaching materials in social studies subjects as learning resources in social studies learning can improve student character values. 2) Learning social studies using multicultural-based social studies teaching materials for eighth grade junior high school students is more effective than using non-development modules in schools. The module’s teaching materials are effective by being proven 1) Learning that uses multicultural-based teaching materials in social studies subjects as learning resources in social studies learning can improve student character values. 2) Learning social studies using multicultural-based social studies teaching materials for eighth grade junior high school students is more effective than using non-development modules in schools. The module’s teaching materials are effective by being proven 1) Learning that uses multicultural-based teaching materials in social studies subjects as learning resources in social studies learning can improve student character values. 2) Learning social studies using multicultural-based social studies teaching materials for eighth grade junior high school students is more effective than using non-development modules in schools. The module’s teaching materials are effective by being provent-test analysis of pre-test and post-test data on the learning outcomes of the control class and the experimental class, it is known that the average learning outcomes of the experimental class are better than the control class. From these results there is clearly a difference between the experimental class and the control class. Thus thatmulticultural-based IPS teaching materialswhich proved to be more effectively used in learning. The results of the test indicate that there is a significant difference and increase in student character outcomes from the experimental and control class.