Impact of Extracurricular Activities on Academic Performance of Students at Secondary Level

The present study aims to observe the impact of extracurricular activities on the academic performance of students at the secondary level in Multan city. All the students at the secondary level in the public sector of Multan city are the population of this study. Three hundred student’s 9th and 10th classes from (two) secondary schools from Multan city were selected. For this study, the researcher uses a simple random sampling technique. A total of 30 survey questions were developed based on Likert-scale type statement options (SA, A, N, DA, SDA), keeping in mind the objective of the study. The data were tabulated and analyzed by using descriptive statistical techniques. The MS-Excel is used for the descriptive analysis of the data. The study concluded that there is a severe need for the introduction of extracurricular activities, orientation programs for the students of secondary level. Extracurricular activities have a positive influence on students' life by improving their behavior, academic performance, better exam scores, more regular class attendance, a better self-image, due to these aspects which makes the students life more successful. Finally, the study suggests that Government should support the introduction of extracurricular activities in all secondary schools, allocate special funds, appoint special trainers/teachers, and fix their pay equal to other subject teachers.

Development of Mobile Learning as a Student Career Planning Media at Senior High School 1 Talang Ubi

Background of this research is the lack of students' understanding of career planning, there are several career problems faced by students. This study aims to produce a mobile learning-based career planning application at Senior High School 1 Talang Ubi. This development research refers to the steps of research and development (RD) by Borg and Gall. Subjects in the initial field trial 6 students scored 79.46 in the very good category, the main field trial 12 students scored 84.07 in the very good category, and the operational field trial 32 students scored 94.47 in the very good category. good. Subject selection was based on the purposive sampling technique. The results showed that (1) the media produced was in the form of a career planning application using Adobe AIR for Android Version 0.1, (2) the mobile learning produced according to experts was suitable for use as a medium for student career planning at Senior High School 1 Talang Ubi.

The Results of Developmental Task Inventory(ITP) For Guidance and Counseling Services at Islamic Boarding Schools

Guidance and counseling service is useful for students in Islamic Boarding Schools but to determine service based on the requirement of students is difficult. This research purposed to describe the results ofDevelopmental Task Inventory(ITP) to help students find developmental tasks that have not been achieved. This research used survey method. The respondents of this research six classes with the amount of 445 students in two Boarding School of Yogyakarta. The results showed that the achievement of development tasks students above the average growth rate of 3.75. The task of development is not yet achieved (3.75). Based on these results, the researcher sees each class having differences in aspects of development tasks that have not been achievedand require different guidance and counseling services.

Islamic Guidance and Counseling in Developing Religious Practice Transgender

The research aims to describe the guidance counseling Islam in developing religious practice counselees (transgender), by using research libraries in the search for sources that are relevant to the research and using content analysis as a technique for analyzing sources that exist, thus generating appropriate conclusions. The results showed that the guidance and Islamic Guidance and Counseling in developing religious practice counselees (transgender) guided by the provisions contained in it, namely; carrying out the stages, obeying and applying existing principles, to evaluating the guidance and Islamic Guidance and Counseling itself, that way, Islamic Guidance and Counseling as a development medium will be able to realize religious practice and its impact on the counselee (transgender) concerned.

Impact of Guidance and Counselling Services on Academic Performance of Students in Some Selected Secondary Schools in Sokoto Metropolis

The study aims to evaluating the impact of guidance and counseling services on the academic performance of students in some selected secondary schools in Sokoto metropolis. Causal-comparative (Ex-post facto) research design was adopted for this study. This study involves a total of 200 subjects comprising 5 principals, 25 class teachers, 10 teacher counselors, and 160 students from the five selected schools. Data were collected using the four sets of questionnaires. Data analysis was done using descriptive and inferential statistics. The finding revealed that eighty percent (80%) of the students responded that their academic performance was changed after receiving counseling services. Seventy-two percent (72%) of the class teachers perceived the level of students’ academic performance after counseling as good, while 20% perceived it very good and 8% rated it bad. Guidance and counseling services have positively influenced the academic performance of the students and should be strengthened to improve the students’ performance in national examinations.

Collaboration of Counseling Teachers and Parents in Distance Learning During The Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstrak: This research is a type of descriptive analytic study, which explains and analyzes how the collaboration of counseling teachers and parents in distance learning during the Covid-19 pandemic. During distance learning the bk teacher should consider increasing communication interaction with parents as well as collaborating with parents and trying to develop positive perceptions about students in terms of student success during distance learning. Collaboration is an activity where there is cooperation between various parties in realizing educational goals, both parties from within and from outside educational institutions. Collaboration in guidance and counseling is a collaborative activity between counseling teachers and a number of related parties in order to achieve the objectives of the guidance and counseling service program, therefore there is a need for a good collaborative strategy between counselors and parents, especially in terms of developing student study success. The involvement of parents in question can be in the form of inviting parents as members of the school committee, providing opportunities for parents to become tutors in an instructional program, involvement of parents in funding a broader school program and also strengthening the understanding and skills of parents regarding child and adult development.

The Education Characters Using Local Wisdom Approach

Character education in New Normal Era based on a local wisdom approach is a solution to managing education polemic that has been affected by Covid-19 pandemic. One of local wisdom approaches is through G12 (Gurindam Dua Belas) approach which is local wisdom of ethnic Malays as well as didactic literary works. classification of G12 document is used as an effort to strengn character of nation. Various problems of character of nation's children in New Normal era such as moral decadence, sexual disorders, acts of plagiarism, excessive love for social media in younger generation have become a moral crisis that disturbs world of education, family and society, so re is a need for value development. To organize values, Gurindam Dua Belas is a solution that is implemented through habituation and exemplary. This research method is a descriptive method with a qualitative approach, researcher collects primary sources and secondary sources related to discussion, analyzes contents of G12 and results of G12 consist of 12 articles, containing values of Islamic teachings, especially values. purpose of this study is to describe values that exist in Gurindam 12. results obtained include: a) making an effort to introduce and foster local ethnic Malay wisdom, b) to describe character education of Gurindam 12 and values in it, se values include: not lying, prohibition of cursing and criticizing, gentle hands, patient, gentle, sincere, guarding heart, love to give, thrifty, polite, trustworthy, diligent, obedient to mor and far and study hard. c) Growing and fostering values of Gurindam 12 in students. conclusion of this study is that values of G12 need to be actualized continuously by community and young generation in all ir life activities in order to become individuals with Gurindam 12 characteristics.

Students' Anxiety Levels During Online Learning During the Covid-19 Pandemic

The Covid pandemic has a major impact on various fields, one of which is in the field of education. Currently, all sectors in the education sector are experiencing a period of adaptation in the implementation of the teaching and learning process. The teaching and learning process carried out online has several impacts, one of which is the anxiety experienced by students. The purpose of this study was to describe the level of anxiety of students during online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic in senior high school students. This research uses the descriptive qualitative method. Data analysis was performed using analysis from various scientific articles. The results showed that the level of student anxiety during online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic was different. This is due to the factors behind it, such as students' understanding of the material provided by the teacher, availability of internet network use, adequate facilities and infrastructure for taking part in online learning and the time for completing assignments which according to some students tends to be short.

The Role of Guidance and Counseling Services in Individual Counseling During The Covid-19 Pandemic

The primary role of the counsellor during the Covid-19 pandemic is expected to be able to formulate individual counselling services that are in accordance with the needs of students today. One of the guidance and counselling services is an individual counselling service which refers to Permendikbud Number 111 of 2014 to obtain limited information about individual counselling. It is hoped that the implementation of guidance and counselling will be able to implement individual counselling services properly. Guidance and counselling must be able to: 1) Prioritize the welfare of the counselee, 2) Able to develop the counselee's diversity of competency skills, 3) Develop information and emotional control skills, 4) Have high resilience in dealing with one's own problems and counselee problems. Individual counselling services are teacher guidance and counselling services in schools to help students solve problems about truancy, interaction with friends, personal problems and career studies. The function of individual counselling services in guidance and counselling can help students in overcoming problems, getting change, direction and support and better attention. Therefore, the role of guidance and counselling in individual counselling services is very important in guidance and counselling in schools. So the counsellor must have the ability to guide, understand the characteristics of students well so that the counsellor can provide optimal guidance services to students.

Sociodrama in Imrpoving Self-Adjustment

This article was written to see how effective it is to improve self-adjustment using group guidance services with sociodrama techniques for grade VIII students at SMP Negeri 1 Yogyakarta. This study used aresearch method quasi-experimental design and used amodel non-equivalent control grouppretest and posttest design by comparing the results of 2 groups of research, namely the experimental group which was given services in the form of sociodrama and the control group which was only given the task for independent discussion. Students involved in this service, respectively, the experimental group and the control group amounted to 9 students. Each meeting uses different materials that are used from the aspects contained in the scale grid that is used to be distributed to students to determine the results of the pretest and posttest. The data analysis technique used in this research was thetest Wilcoxon to determine the effect of sociodrama in service delivery. The results of the research that have been carried out indicate an increase in self-adjustment after being given treatment in the form of sociodrama as seen from the comparison of theresults pretest of 74.11 and posttest of 99.78. It can be concluded that there is a significant increase in value and sociodrama has an effect on increasing student adjustment.Keywords: Sociodrama, Self-Adjustment, Students Abstrak: Artikel ini ditulis bertujuan untuk melihat seberapa efektifnya peningkatan penyesuaian diri menggunakan layanan bimbingan kelompok dengan teknik sosiodrama pada siswa kelas VIII di SMP Negeri 1 Yogyakarta. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian quasi eksperimental design dan menggunakan model non-equivalent control groups pretest dan posttest design dengan membandingkan hasil penelitian 2 kelompok yaitu kelompok eksperimen yang diberikan layanan berupa sosiodrama dan kelompok kontrol yang hanya diberikan tugas untuk diskusi secara mandiri. Siswa yang terlibat dalam layanan ini masing-masing kelompok eksperimen maupun kelompok kontrol berjumlah 9 siswa. Setiap pertemuan menggunakan materi yang berbeda yang digunakan dari aspek yang terdapat dalam kisi-kisi skala yang digunakan untuk dibagikan kepada siswa-siswa untuk menentukan hasil pretest dan posttest. Teknik analisis data penelitian ini menggunakan uji Wilcoxon untuk mengetahui pengaruh sosiodrama dalam pemberian layanan. Hasil penelitian yang sudah dilakukan menunjukkan adanya peningkatan penyesuaian diri setelah diberikan treatment berupa sosiodrama yang dilihat dari perbandingan hasil pretest sebesar 74,11 dan posttest sebesar 99,78. Dapat disimpulkan bahwa adanya kenaikan nilai secara signifikan dan sosiodrama memiliki pengaruh terhadap peningkatan penyesuaian diri siswa.Kata Kunci: Sosiodrama, Penyesuaian Diri, Siswa