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Promoting Interventions to Develop Religous Identity of Secondary School Students
Get PDFAdolescence is known as the transition from childhood to adulthood. In this period, the adolescent will experience many changes related to their identities in various domains of life, including the religious domain. This study aims to investigate the profiles of religious identity status of early adolescents. A total of 116 secondary school students participated in this study. Data were collected by using the Scale of Religious Identity Status. The results showed that students’ religious identity status were distributed in four categories: achievement (66%), searching moratorium (23%), foreclosure (10%), and moratorium (1%). Implications for guidance and counseling services in secondary school are discussed to promote the development of religious identity of early adolescents
The relation between self-regulated learning, academic performance of graduate student
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to discover possible relationships between self-regulated learning with graduate students’ academic performance. Eighty graduate students from the Learning Sciences Programme and Human Resources Programme at Faculty of Cognitive Sciences and Human Development were randomly selected. Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (Pintrich, 1991) was piloted and administered. First, the questionnaire was undergone the back-to-back translation (into Malay language version). Two variables that involved in this study were motivation and learning strategies. Academic performance measured to be dependent variable which is the graduate students’ current CGPA. Findings show that there is no relation between motivation and learning strategies with academic performance. Future recommendations are also discussed in this study
Optimization of achievement motivation to improve long jump performance
Get PDFThis study aims to reveal the achievement motivation of the athlete's long jump ability. This is so motivated by the observations of the athlete's performance is still not under the reality. Achievement of an athlete long jump is still lower than the previous year and declines. One reason is the low motivation of athlete achievement. This phenomenon is an attraction for writers to examine related to the optimization of achievement motivation to improve the performance of long jump athletes. This research is the quasi-experiment. Sampling is done by purposive random sampling. The sample size was 32 people out of 58 athletes. Achievement motivation data got through the use of instruments in the form of a questionnaire. Validity analysis is to test using product-moment correlation SPSS version 20.00 and data analysis with T-Test. The results showed that there was a significant difference in ability of long jump athletes with high achievement motivation compared to low achievement motivation
Improving learning skills of college student through mastery content service in technique counseling courses
Get PDFCounseling skills is one component of the expertise that must be possessed by prospective counselors who study in university. It requires adequate student learning skills to succeed in mastering counseling skills. This study aimed to improve students' learning skills through content services over the course of counseling techniques. The study involved 61 students used the one group pretest-posttest design. The result from the research showed that there is influenced of delivering masterycontent service to student's learning skill in a course of counseling technique
Effectiveness assertive training on discipline of learning in junior high school
No full textDiscipline in learning is the obedience of students in the implementation of learning. In fact, in schools there are still students who are not in accordance with the rules of the class, do no work, come to school not on time. See things to keep in mind to improve the discipline of learning. The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of training in improving student learning discipline. The method used is quasi experimental research with Non-equivalent Control Group Design. The study was conducted at SMK Trisakti Bandar Lampung, with the sample of this study is 18 students of class X Yang who have income 16-17 years. The instrument used in this study is the scale of learning discipline. Data analysis technique using Wilcoxon test. The results of this study indicate that assertive training can improve student learning discipline
The contribution of headmaster’s personality competence to the teacher’s social competence of vocational high school
No full textThis research aims to know the contribution of headmaster’s personality competence to the teacher’s social competence at Vocational High School. The type of this research is Correlation. With 55 teachers at the State of Vocational High School in Padang Municipality through sampling technique of stratified random sampling. The used of the instrument is scale of KKPS and KSG. Test Instrument covers testing validity and reliability. The analysis of data uses correlation. The result of this research are: (1) headmaster’s personality competence teacher of the State of Vocational High School 6 in Padang Municipality is well, with the level of achievement score 86,2%, (2) Teacher’s Social Competence at the State of Vocational High School 6 in Padang Municipality placed in well category, with the score level achievement 84,97%, (3) There is a well correlation between headmaster’s personality competence with teacher’s social competence at the State of Vocational High School 6 in Padang Municipality with coefficient correlation rcount = 0,36> r-table = 0,207 in level of credibility 95%. The level of headmaster’s personality competence is relative minor to the teacher’s social competence at the State of Vocational High School 6 in Padang. It means that headmaster’s personality competence gives the contribution to the teacher’s social competence at the State of Vocational High School 6 in Padang Municipality is around 12,96%
An Initial Study in the Development of International Postgraduate Students Academic Stress Scale (IPSASS)
Get PDFThe aim of this study is to develop a new scale, the International Postgraduate Students Academic Stress Scale (IPSASS), for measuring the sources of academic stress on international postgraduate students. A 79-item prototype was developed by reviewing literatures and conducting interviews. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was used to investigate the contribution of each item and the number of factor in the IPSASS. The result of study revealed that IPSASS has seven subscales including: (1) Learning Process, (2) Time Management, (3) Financial Problems, (4) Relationship’s Building, (5) Supervision, (6) Acquiring Resources, and (7) Academic Performance. The IPSASS is a reliable and valid instrument for measuring the source and level of academic stress on international postgraduate students. This study has contribution significantly to the literature and practice for providing a valuable understanding regarding psychological and academic issues faced by international postgraduate students.
The analysis of causes of divorce by wives
Get PDFThis study aimed to find out the background of the life of women until the marital process, the factors causing wives to sue their husband for divorce, and the overview of women’s life who sued their husband for divorce. The research uses descriptive qualitative method and for collecting data were doing interviews. The subjects of this research were ten people. The results showed that most of their propensities to divorce were because: (1) the husband did severe persecution that was harmful to the wife; (2) the husband left the wife for 2 (two) consecutive years without wife's permission and without any legitimate reason; (3) the occurrence of dispute and the quarrel between the husband and wife as well as there was no hope of living in harmony anymore in the household; (4) the husband committed adultery (cheating). Based on the results from the study, divorced women feel free from her husband's bad behavior
Assistingthe government in the implementation Non-formal education: a case study of the Indonesian kasih bundo institute for the care and development of the disable children
Get PDFPoverty is still a serious issue worlwide including in Indonesia. One important way to address it is by providing education by the government. However, the government alone cannot address the problem satisfactorily, and, therefore, it needs non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to assist. One of these type of NGOs is Yayasan Penyantun dan Pembina Anak Cacat (YPPAC) Kasih Bundo. This NGO assists the government by providing a non-formal education by establishing Pusat Kegiatan Belajar Masyarakat (PKBM) Kasih Bundo (The Kasih Bundo Study Centre for the Community). This article reports a study on this NGO, focusing on what it has done and what it has successfully achieved by looking at the social and economic background of their families. The result suggests that the NGO has successfully assisted the government in a significant manner
Self-management training program by using cognitive technique (a quasi experiment on the students of UPI Kampus Serang)
Get PDFThe goal of this study is to construct an effective program which can improve students’ self-management of UPI Kampus Serang by using cognitive technique. The starting point of this study is began at the revealed undisciplined students behaviors such as tardiness in attending classes, tardiness in submission of assignments, unable to use their free-time effectively and productively and the others disorderly behaviors. Cognitive technique hopefully brings a self management which effectively changes the inadequate idea in the mind and bad feeling in the heart into an acceptable quality of this mental and behavior. Also, this technique hopefully emerges a basic change in the procedure of self management. Research design applies the Latin Square technique which is derived from one of Within Subject technique (Heppner, Wampold, Kivlighan, 2008). In this study, population of students was trained in their self management (SM) skill. The aspects of SM skill which are trained to the students namely time management (TM), social skill (SS), and self-directed learning (SDL). The training of these three SM skills applied three different cognitive technique that are planning (P), problem solving (PS) and self-instruction (SI). Thus students formerly divided into three groups of population to give treatment to each of the SM aspects (TM, SS, SDL) for each group by applying the three different cognitive aspects (P, PS, SI). The final outcome of this study shows that there are no significance different results in the applying of those three cognitive techniques in order to improve the students’ SM skills. Nevertheless, this training program has empirically proven that the program is able to improve the SM skills of the students at the rate of 30% better than before. Then, the final product of this study is a program of students Self Management Training by using Cognitive Technique