Questions of the Research

d. Purpose Formulation An Accounting Pocket Book was hoped to fulfill the needs of grade X Accounting students in SMK Muhammadiyah 1 Yogyakarta by providing practical and easily-understood references. Moreover, students’ motivation increased. 2 Design Stage The second stage was a design stage or media design. This stage was a media design according to the result of analysis stage. 3 Development Stage In this stage, the media was developed according to the design covering book cover, skin, contents, pictures and colors. After the preliminary product of the pocket book was made, a validation test was done as an expert judgment. Validation was carried out by media and material experts. If the product needs improvement, the revision stage will be conducted. If the product is good already, it can go on to the implementation stage. 4 Implementation Implementation stage was done to examine the media to the users. The media was created for the grade X accounting students of SMK Muhammadiyah 1 Yogyakarta. The characteristic of the implementation was a try- out to see how the users’ responses and evaluations to the product seen from some aspects. 5 Evaluation Stage Munir 2008: 200 found that “to identify the advantages and weaknesses of the developed media needs an evaluation.” Evaluations done by the users, media and material experts to know the suitability of the developed media, the users’ responses, and evaluations after using the media. The results showed whether the media was suitable to use. Besides, the evaluation stage was needed to improve the media.

B. Research Subjects

The research subjects were one material expert, one media expert, one accounting teacher of SMK Muhammadiyah 1 Yogyakarta, 34 students of X Accounting 2 class and 35 students of X Accounting 1 class of SMK Muhammadiyah 1 Yogyakarta. SMK Muhammadiyah 1 Yogyakarta was chosen because the same research was never conducted there before. The students of SMK Muhammadiyah 1 Yogyakarta were happy with the use of learning media. From the field experiences that the researchers did, she found that accounting teachers still used traditional media and they lack media. The library did not facilitate students with a complete collection of books. The books were less captivating. As the result, students read less.