Knife Pleated Skirt Multimedia Video Tutorial to Improve Learning Quality

Knife pleated skirt is one of the learning materials in the fashion pattern analysis course, UPI FPTK Fashion Education. Based on a preliminary study of 25 2013 fashion design students who had participated in the knife pleated skirt study, currently the learning used is still conventional, namely by demonstrating and using job sheet, power point, and fragment media. From the results of the preliminary study it was found that there were problems in learning how to determine the amount of fabric needed with the number of pleats and body size. For students who are slow in receiving the material, there needs to be a repetition of learning that can help students without the limited space and time to learn knife pleated skirt material. This study aims to overcome the problems experienced by students, by creating new learning media, namely multimedia knife pleated skirt video tutorials. The method used in this study is the Research and Development (R & D) method, with the stages carried out namely identification, planning, making, validation and testing, and the assessment phase. From the results of validation and field trials, it can be described that the making of knife pleated skirt video tutorials was made into a decent category with the assessment percentage of each validator and user was 95.97% by multimedia experts, 93.21% of material experts, and 91.24% by users. Thus, it can be concluded that the creation of a knife pleated skirt multimedia video tutorial is suitable for use. Keywords—research and development method; multimedia video tutorial; knife pleated skirt