Abstract:
Education in the 21st century is required to produce generations who have and
master various kinds of skills, one of which is critical thinking skills. Therefore,
learning is needed that can prepare students to think critically. One of them is
applying local potential-based learning resources developed in popular
scientific book teaching materials. This study aims to examine the practicality
of the content, the practicality of expectations, and the actual practicality of the
popular scientific books developed. The method used is based on Tessmer's
formative evaluation design. The results of the research on the readability test
obtained results of 87.18% with very good criteria, based on student
responses, the results were 89.60% on the practicality of expectations and
92.59% on the actual practicality with very practical criteria, and based on the
implementation of popular scientific books that developed which got the
results of 92.59% on the implementation of expectations and 96.69% on the
actual implementation with a very good category. This result shows that a
popular scientific book titled "Types of Plants in the Fabaceae Family with
Medicinal Properties in the Banua Botanical Gardens" is very practical to use as
enrichment material in the Higher Plant Botany (BTT) course and can improve
students' critical thinking skills.
