ABSTRAK
Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan tujuan: (1) menganalisis bagaimana kondisi bahan ajar sejarah; (2) mendeskripsikan pengembangan bahan ajar sejarah lokal berbasis nilai-nilai sulam kerawang gayo guna meningkatkan karakter bangsa siswa; dan (3) mendeskripsikan keefektifan bahan ajar sejarah lokal berbasis nilai-nilai sulam kerawang gayo dalam meningkatkan karakter bangsa siswa.
Metode penelitian pengembangan (Research and Development/R&D) dari Borg and Gall digunakan dalam penelitian untuk menghasilkan bahan ajar. Tahap metode mencakup: (1) tahap studi pendahuluan, yakni studi literatur, studi lapangan, dan temuan kebutuhan bahan ajar; (2) tahap pengembangan, meliputi: desain prototype, validasi expert’s judgement, uji coba satu-satu serta revisi, dan uji coba luas; dan (3) tahap uji keefektifan, meliputi: menguji keefektifan dan kelayakan bahan ajar sejarah lokal.
Hasil yang diperoleh: (1) bahan ajar mengacu pada KTSP, terfokus pada satu buku teks tanpa ada pedamping maupun pengembangan bahan ajar, fasilitas sekolah terkait bahan ajar sejarah  masih minim, kurang memberikan materi tentang pendidikan karakter, dan guru terlalu mengejar waktu untuk menyelesaikan materi, sehingga perlu adanya bahan ajar dengan penekanan pada karakter bangsa; (2) bahan ajar sejarah lokal yang disusun berdasarkan enam komponen yang ditentukan, Silabus dan RPP, validasi tiga pakar memberikan nilai skor rata-rata 5 dengan kategori “sangat baik”, uji coba satu-satu dilakukan pada 5 siswa dan 13 siswa dengan nilai skor rata-rata 4,4 dengan kategori “sangat baik”, revisi yang hanya sebatas format penulisan; hasil uji coba luas menunjukkan adanya perbedaan nilai rata-rata antara kelompok eksperimen lebih meningkat dibandingkan kelompok kontrol baik dari prestasi maupun sikap karakter bangsa; dan (3) penerapan bahan ajar sejarah lokal berbasis nilai-nilai sulam kerawang gayo guna meningkatkan karakter bangsa terbukti efektif, terbukti dari nilai post test pada kelompok kontrol dan kelompok eksperimen, untuk hasil prestasi sebesar 0.005 < 0.025 dan sikap karakter bangsa sebesar 0.005 < 0.025 dengan demikian H0 ditolak jadi ada perbedaan yang positif dan signifikan.
Kata Kunci: Bahan Ajar, Sejarah Lokal, Nilai Sulam Kerawang Gayo, Karakter Bangsa.
ABSTRACT
This research aim to find: (1) the analyze how conditions of teaching materials history; (2).the described of the development local history of teaching materials based on values of The Embroidery Kerawang Gayo to improve nation character of the students, and (3) the description of the effectiveness local history of teaching materials based on values The Embroidery Kerawang Gayo in improving the nation character students.
Research method development (Research and Development / R&D) of borg and gall was used in this research to produce teaching materials. Stage methods are: (1) the preliminary stage of the study, namely the study of literature, field studies, needs and findings of teaching materials; (2) the developmental stage, includes: design prototypes, validation expert’ s judgement, the trial and the revision of one-on-one, and piloting broad; (3) And the test of  the  effectiveness stage, includes: test the effectiveness and appropriation teaching materials local history.
The results obtained: (1) the teaching materials referring to KTSP, focused on one text book without any partners and also the development of teaching materials, regarding school facilities in the history of teaching materials are not enough, less of giving materials about character education, and teachers are too pursue time to resolve the matter, so that needs of teaching materials with an emphasis on the  nation character; (2) teaching materials local history is based on six components determined, the syllabus and lesson plans, validation of three experts give the value of the average score category 5 with very good, one by one the trial conducted in 5 students and 13 students with the value of the average score 4.4 with the category of very good, the revision of which are only the format of the writing, the results of the trial wide showed that there are differences in between average value of the experiment more increase than both control group of achievement and the attitude of the nation character; and (3) the application of teaching materials local history based on values kerawang gayo embroidery in order to increase nation character has proved effective, proven by  the value of post group test on control and the experiment group, to yield achievement of 0.005 < 0.025 and attitude nation character of 0.005 < 0.025 by this  Ho rejected so there is a difference of positive and significant.
Keyword: Teaching Materials, Local History, The Value of Embroidery Gayo filigree, nation character.