Implementation of Distance Learning and Assessment in Kindergarten in Emergency Circumtances

This study aims to get a clearer picture of distance learning (DL) in kindergarten and its assessment, to provide recommendations for policy options related to DL in kindergarten to optimizing students' development and abilities in the emergency. This study was randomly sampling subjects, which are principals, teachers, and parents who had kindergarten-age children. The data collection was through interviews, documentation, and questionnaires deployed by Google form. The results of this study showed that the best format of DL in kindergarten is blended. The assessment for this blended learning that can be done both by teacher and parents are by using communication forum and checklist sheets. Policy options for DL in kindergarten are the use of package modules/books, home visits, activity sheets, television and radio, and the coordination of the government at central and regional administration, and education stakeholders. These policy options become necessary because of the quality of DL based on the knowledge and skills of the teacher/parents that corresponds to the child's developmental stage. DL in kindergarten is the fulfillment of education rights to children in any circumstances. This effort optimizing the children's development of abilities and potential as expected

Portfolio Assessment at Featured Schools in Yogyakarta

Assessment is part of the learning cycle, so that assessment cannot be separated from a learning activity. The Minister of Education and Culture said that the implementation of the 2020 National-Based School Examination will be carried out with exams held by schools. The exam is conducted to assess student competence and can be done in the form of a written test or a comprehensive assessment such as portfolios and assignments. This portfolio can later be done through group assignments, paper work, and so on. Researchers want to know the extent of school readiness, teachers' perceptions and knowledge of portfolio assessments, types / forms of portfolio assessments that have been carried out in schools, and constraints in implementing portfolio assessments. The research was carried out in superior junior high junior high schools in the the Special Region of Yogyakarta, namely SMPN 1 Bantul and SMPN 4 Pakem. The implementation of the portfolio assessment carried out at SMPN 1 Bantul and SMPN 4 Pakem went very well and was effective because it was supported by school members (school principals, educators, education staff, students, parents, and the community) through various policies and concrete actions carried out consistently and the seriousness of the school in supporting the program.

The Effect of Global Awareness on Students' Reading Skill Based on Aksi Data

The Indonesian Student Competency Assessment (Asesmen Kompetensi Siswa Indonesia-AKSI) is a national survey aims to monitor the quality of education system across provinces. The results of the AKSI are expected to provide inputs on policies to improve the quality of learning outcomes in particular and the quality of education in general. The objective of AKSI is to measure students’ cognitive abilities, which include science, mathematics and reading. In addition, AKSI also collects data through questionnaires, one of which is about Global Awareness. The purpose of this study was to analyze the influence of student gender, parent’s education level, interest studying other cultures, adaptability and communication, understanding of global problems, tolerance, environmental awareness and school quality on students’ reading literacy skill. The data used in this study are data from the 2019 AKSI survey of 15.738 grade IX students and school accreditation of 1.805 junior high schools in Indonesia. The results of parameter estimation and hypothesis testing using the multilevel regression model concluded that gender, father's education, adaptability and communication skills, understanding of global problems, tolerance of religious and cultural differences and school quality affect students’ reading ability.

Mathematics Make Students Confused and Anxious: a Comparisons Between Australia, Indonesia, and Singapore in The 2015 Timss

The main purpose of this study is to find out the perceptions about Mathematics that confuse and anxious 2015 TIMSS participants in Australia, Indonesia, and Singapre. The data in this study is the 2015 TIMSS data that has been released to the public and has available for development purpose research. The research method used is quantitative method. The population of this study is students' perceptions of Mathematics subject that confuse and worry students aged 15 years in three countries who are studying in 2015, while the sample is 15-year-old students’ perceptions in these countries. The data in this study were in the form of questionnaires which were answered by 16599 students from these three countries. Based on the results of the analysis of variance, there is a significant difference (P <0,000) on students' perceptions about mathematics subject that confuse and worry students in these three countries (Sig. 0,000). The reliability of students' abilities is the same, Australia = 0.74, Indonesia = 0.75; and Singpura = 0.75. The conclusion is most students in these three countries stated "disagree a lot" about mathematics make students confuse and worry.

Mapping of Difficult Mathematics Topics in Vocational High Schools Based on National Examination Data

The educational achievement in Indonesia is measured by implementing the National Examination or Ujian Nasional (UN). Throughout its implementation, the UN results shown unsatisfying results, including in mathematics subjects. This fact indicated that there are mathematics topics that are considered to be difficult for students. This study aimed to investigate the difficult topics of mathematics in Vocational High School (VHS) based on UN data. This study was a descriptive research with the quantitative approach by using the UN report results in the level of VHS from Center for Educational Assessment of the Ministry of Education and Culture in the period of 2008 to 2017 (ten years) as a research data source. Data analysis was carried out in a quantitative descriptive by mapping the mathematics topics based on proportion correct answers or “daya serap”. A topic was considered difficult if the proportion correct answer was less than 50%. The results showed that there were 14 difficult mathematics topics in the UN implementation at the VHS level from 2008 to 2017. These topics include the comparison of trigonometric functions, solid figure, limit, measure of data dispersion, permutation and combination, differential, area between two curves, a measure of central data tendentious, probability, logarithm, integral, sequence and series, linear program, and polar coordinates system. The implications of the research findings for learning practice and future research opportunities are discussed.

Study on Ability of Elementary School Teacher in Writing Test Items During The Pandemic Time of Covid-19

The purpose of this study was to obtain information about the ability of elementary school teachers in composing test questions in private universities. This research uses qualitative research, which describes empirical reality using a descriptive approach. This study also uses a literature study, with documents to find some field data that occurs in the form of questions on several subjects. Meanwhile, the descriptive method is finding facts with the right interpretation, namely understanding the concept of the material, the ability to use the rules of the question. Meanwhile, the data analysis used was (1) the subject matter expert's judgment in interpreting some of the item test document findings, (2) theoretically and empirically the item had met the standard question rules. This research was found, during the COVID 19 pandemic, all parents or guardians have a 100% chance of assisting with distance learning as unprecedented. The sample consisted of nine subject teachers and the population was all fourth-grade teachers in primary schools as research subjects. So the assessment also uses offline and online so that it is found, (1) biased test questions, because the linguistic structure of the main sentence and explanatory sentences, is wrong in choosing questions with answers, (2) does not understand the rules about the questions: such as homogeneity of questioners, long and short answers, the use of standard Indonesian. Meanwhile, some of the test questions that were found to have problems were Indonesian, Natural Science, Character, and Boy Scouts. From 12 items, 4 items had material concept errors and 8 items error in the rules.

Teacher’s Perception on Merdeka Belajar Policy

The urgency of Merdeka Belajar policy is certainly a challenge for teachers to carry out the learning process in schools. This policy makes teachers have to independently find methods and ways of learning that suit the situation in school. This study aims to explore teachers' perceptions regarding Merdeka Belajar policy that will be applied today. A mixed research design was used in this study by involving thematic content analysis to get an overview of teachers' perceptions about the implementation of Merdeka Belajar policy at schools. Then the researcher tested the extent of the teacher's readiness to use a portfolio instrument which was an implementation of Merdeka Belajar. This study involved 30 teachers who received a set of open-ended questionnaires, conducted the FGD process, and filled out a portfolio assessment questionnaire. The results showed that the majority of teachers considered Merdeka Belajar policy to be an effective alternative in providing instruction to students in accordance with the resources owned by the school. However, technically, teachers feel the need to be given structured socialization, clear guidance, and freedom based on the abilities and personalities of teachers in schools. In addition, the percentage of portfolio instruments usage seems to have been widely practiced in learning activities.

Validation of the Social Provision Scale with Indonesian Student Sample: A Rasch Model Approach

The condition of Indonesia is currently being faced by the corona virus (COVID-19) pandemic 2019. The importance of solutions related to the existence of the role of teachers or educators to provide references such as social support to students in learning and teaching activities from home, this study conducted to provide research tools or instruments that can be used by educators or researchers by testing the validity of a social support construct (Social Provision Scale) measuring instrument using the Rasch Model. Although much has been done to test the validity of the Social Provision Scale, no one has examined it by involving social support in the context of Education. Likewise, the majority of research on social support uses confirmatory factor analysis, and no one has used the Rasch Model in validating the Social Provision Scale instrument, especially in Indonesia. The data used are secondary data from Putra of 326 people in SMA Negeri 29 South Jakarta using cluster sampling. The results of the application of the Rasch Rating Scale model show that the psychometric characteristics of the Social Provision Scale are very good and precise, as well as the compatibility of the items to the model. Implications and suggestions for future research are also discussed.

DOES INTERNET USAGE FREQUENCY GIVE IMPACT TO STUDENT’S ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE?

In the last decade, the development of technology has been growing rapidly. Internet—as a part of technology—became one of the very important things for many people. The usage of internet had been increasing in the last few years. It happened to people with various backgrounds and ages around the world. There is an interesting phenomenon that nowadays internet usage behavior is not only happened to adult but also happened to student at school. Some studies have found that internet usage had negative effect on student’s academic performance. But another study emphasized that positive internet usage behavior gave significant effect on academic outcome. In this study, we distinguish internet usage behavior into two categories, viz. general internet user and professional internet user. General internet user refers to internet usage behavior that focus on communication and entertaining purposes. Otherwise, professional internet user refers to productive activities in using internet like searching for information and doing some works that are relevant to assist finishing academic’s tasks. This study aims to find the influence of internet usage—general and professional—on student’s academic performance in Indonesia. Internet usage behavior measured by 2019 Student’s National Examination Survey from Center for Educational Assessment Indonesia. While, student’s academic performance represented by 2019 Indonesian National Examination Score. In addition, studies found that student’s socio-economic status (SES) had influence on their pattern of internet use. Then, this study determined SES as control variable in order to find comprehensive explanation about impact of internet usage on student’s academic outcome.

Absorbent Power Power Subject Matter and Reliability Math Test Form Item Essay

This study aims to determine the proportion correct of mathematics subject matter and compare the reliability of essay tests that are scored with 3 different rubric models. The method used in this research is an experiment using design treatments by subjects, an experiment using one group (one group experiment) which is also an experimental group and a control group in different experimental periods. Schools that were sampled were 6 public and private junior high schools and students were sampled as many as 452 students. The research sample was determined by two-stage stratified random sampling. The objects in this study consisted of 22 essay questions in Mathematics for junior high school compiled from the same test specifications. Scoring uses 3 scoring rubrics models, namely scoring rubric Model 1 (0,1), Model 2 (0,1,2), and Model 3 (keywords). The results obtained from this study indicate the reliability of the mathematical essay test on the scoring rubric of model 1 is 0.6859, model 2 is 0.7025, and model 3 is 0.6986. Test reliability of the three scoring rubrics is high or reliable. Students' competence in completing mathematical essay questions is still low, which is under 50%. Only mathematical essay questions calculate volume at the cognitive level of knowledge and understanding above 70%. Student competencies in solving questions that measure reasoning is an average of 12.20%. In other words, the proportion correct of subject matter in two-dimentional figure and space less than 50%, this shows that students still do not understand the concept of the subject matter, especially the material of the central angular relationship, arc length, sector area, which can only be answered correctly by 17.58% of students.