Indonesian is One of the subjects that must be included in any
curriculum. One of the texts in Indonesian class is a short story text that is
a fiction text. Students take several steps to make learning short story texts
easier, namely identifying, demonstrating, analyzing and creating short story
texts orally and in writing. These phases help students gain skills in learning
short stories. This research is research developing learning media in the form
of an application for the learning process of short story texts. The presence
of learning application media for the learning process becomes more interesting
and further increases the motivation of the students in the learning process.
The purpose of this study is to explain the process of ABC media application
development and the ABC media quality, which consists of validity,
effectiveness and practicality for learning short story writing. This
development research uses a development model designed by Sadiman, the steps of
which include analyzing students needs and characteristics, formulating lesson
objectives, formulating material elements, creating success measures, creating
test media, and revisions. The results of this media development research
encompass the quality of ABC media, which consists of three aspects namely
validity, effectiveness, and practicality. First, the validity of ABC media can
be seen from the validators rating, which shows that the ABC media development
is valid. The overall average of the validation results gave a percentage of
86.64 percent with the criteria very feasible. The second aspect is the
effectiveness of ABC media, which results from the learning outcomes of the
students and the observations of educators and students. Student learning
outcomes on short stories using ABC media showed an average of 87.04 percent. The
results of the observation of the activities of the educators showed 81.42 percent,
and the results of the observation of the students showed 81.67 percent. The
effectiveness of ABC media shows 83.37 percent with very good criteria.
The third aspect is the practicability of ABC media, obtained from the student
response questionnaire, which shows an average of 78 percent rated as practical giving ABC media an average of 82.67 on the quality
criteria percent that is classified as very high quality media.
Keywords: Development,
ABC Media, and Short Story Text.