The purpose of this research was to find out the teaching materials that needed to be developed in Cell Biology courses at Malang City Universities. The study was conducted on students who have taken Cell Biology courses in four college at the Malang city. The type of research conducted is quantitative descriptive research. The results showed that students were interested in Cell Biology courses and in the Cell Biology course there were several topics which were considered difficult including cell division, cell division control, and cancer, while for the results of the study related to the availability of teaching materials used, data were obtained that in three universities, namely UNISMA, UMM, and IKIP Budi Utomo, the percentage was more than 50% while for UIN the percentage was 48%. Students consider teaching that has not been able to construct understanding of concepts in studying Cell Biology courses so it is necessary to develop research-based module teaching materials.

Abstrak: Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui bahan ajar yang perlu dikembangkan pada matakuliah Biologi Sel di Perguruan Tinggi Kota Malang. Penelitian dilakukan terhadap mahasiswa yang telah menempuh matakuliah Biologi Sel di empat Perguruan Tinggi kota Malang. Jenis penelitian yang dilakukan adalah penelitian deksriptif kuantitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa mahasiswa tertarik pada matakuliah Biologi Sel dan pada matakuliah Biologi Sel terdapat beberapa topik yang dianggap sulit antara lain pembelahan sel, pengendalian pembelahan sel, dan kanker. Hasil penelitian terkait ketersediaan bahan ajar yang digunakan diperoleh data bahwa pada tiga perguruan tinggi yaitu UNISMA, UMM, dan IKIP Budi Utomo diperoleh persentase lebih dari 50% sedangkan untuk UIN didapatkan persentase sebesar 48%. Mahasiswa menganggap ajar yang digunakan belum dapat mengonstruk pemahaman konsep dalam mempelajari matakuliah Biologi Sel sehingga perlu adanya pengembangan bahan ajar modul berbasis penelitian.