Students’ Science Process Skill in Volcanoes Eruption Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation

This study aimed to determine the achievement of the mastery of science process skills of students who are trained in integrated learning disaster risk reduction efforts. This research is an experimental research design with one sample control group design. The sample in this study were 60 students of 7th grade student in SMP N 2 Cangkringan, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. SMP N 2 Cangkringan is located near Merapi Mountain areas. Science process skills data were obtained using a process skills observation sheet that was filled in by the observer. Data analysis was performed descriptively. The results shows that the scientific process skills profile of students who were trained together with the training of volcanic eruption disaster mitigation increased at each meeting. The most significant improvement was observing, followed by predicting skills, communicating skills, and drawing conclusions

College Students' Perceptions of an Automated Writing Evaluation as a Supplementary Feedback Tool in a Writing Class

Automated Writing Evaluation (AWE) programs have emerged as the latest trend in EFL writing classes. AWE programs act as a supplementary to teacher feedback and offer automated suggestions and corrections to students' linguistic errors such as grammar, vocabulary, or mechanics. As there is a need for better recognition of different AWE brands utilized for different levels of students, this research sheds light on identifying six university students’ views of an AWE program, namely ProWritingAid (PWA). The six students are categorized as having high or low writing achievement. This descriptive study delineates the students’ perceptions qualitatively. A semi-structured interview was used to collect the data. The findings suggest the students’ positive views of PWA because it could make class time more effective; it had useful feedback on grammar, vocabulary choices, and mechanics; and it built students‘ self-confidence over their compositions. In addition, for different reasons, the students engaged differently with PWA to enhance their drafts, e.g. using PWA only for the first drafts or for the first and final drafts. Finally, despite of the students’ constructive views on PWA, there was a risk that students only engaged superficially with the program by hitting the correction directly.

Cooperative Learning Strategies in Citizenship Education Subject in Elementary Schools During the Pandemic Covid-19

During the Covid-19 pandemic, teachers were worried about students’ character education because they could not directly monitor students’ character development. Digital learning-based learning has advantages and disadvantages, so teachers must provide the best learning strategies to achieve learning goals, especially in character education. The purpose of this research is to provide the best solutions in learning strategies during the Covid-19 pandemic. This research uses a qualitative approach with a descriptive research type. Data used in this study are primary data sources, namely teachers and related students, and secondary data sources, namely the documents required in this study. The data that has been obtained through the data collection process is grouped, then reduced, presented, and concluded. This research shows that students prefer and are more active when learning cooperative rather than having to use digital learning (online). Strengthening responsibility character education for students when using online knowledge has not been achieved. Therefore, the best solution to overcome these problems is to use direct cooperative learning to be more responsible with their lessons.

Improving Students' Writing Skills and Motivation in Learning English at SMAN 2 Kediri Using Hypnoteaching Strategy

Writing is complex skills for EFL learners. In this Covid-19 pandemic, the teacher should held online learning to help students in learning. This study aimed to answer: (1&2) is there any significant improvement of students’ writing performance as were as the students’ motivation level after being taught with online Hypnoteaching strategy. The design of this study was a quasi-experimental study that used nonequivalent control group design. The researcher chose 70 students as the sample. The researcher applied online Hypnoteaching for 6 weeks. Result of the study showed that (1) the average gain for experimental group is 64.5343 and control group is 8.4054. The Value (Sig) .000 greater than α, which means there is a significant improvement in writing skills after being taught with Hypnoteaching strategy; (2)The Value Sig. (2-tailed) .003 greater than α. Thus, there is a significant difference on students’ motivation level after being taught with Hypnoteaching strategy. The researcher would explicate more on discussion part.

Influence of Lecturer's Pedagogic Competency Level, Quality of Administrative Services, Completeness of Lecture Supporting Facilities, and Student Satisfaction on Learning Motivation

This research aims to know students' perceptions of the competencies of pedagogical lecturers, the quality of administrative services, the completeness of the facilities supporting lectures, student satisfaction and its relationship with the motivation of student learning. The approach used is quantitative with the design of survey research. The research population was 3,702 of FIP UM students, while the sample was 361 students. The study was conducted in 2020. Sampling techniques using proportional sampling and simple random sampling. Data collection using questionnaires, meanwhile for data analysis using two kinds of analysis techniques, namely descriptive analysis and path analysis. The results showed: (1) the competency of pedagogic lecturers, and the quality of administrative services according to the perception of students in the category is quite good, while the student's perception of the completeness of the lecture support facilities in the category is quite complete, the student expresses satisfaction for the services received. But on the motivation of studying of FIP students have a low level; (2) there is an influence on the level of pedagogical competency of lecturers on the motivation of student learning; (3) there is an influence on the quality of administrative services on student learning motivation; (4) there is an influence on the completeness of the facilities to support lectures on the motivation of student learning; (5) there is an influence of satisfaction on the motivation of student learning; and (6) simultaneously there is the influence of lecturer competency level, quality of administrative services, completeness of lecture support facilities, and student satisfaction on learning motivation.

Accounting Students’ Academic Performance by Their Background Information

This study aims to determine differences in academic performance of accounting students by their background information. This study involved secondary data from 810 accounting students, analyzed by using Kruskal Wallis test to investigate differences on gender, living environment and funding source. The results show that the academic performance of female students who live at home and obtain scholarship are better than other groups. However, males who live at home and obtain scholarship have indifferent academic performance from other male groups. These findings indicate that gender, living environment and type of educational funding can be taken into consideration to differentiate students’ academic performance. The results of this study can be used by universities to make decisions in determining acceptance criteria, to identify potential students to increase academic performance, and to resolve problems of underperformed students. This research provides an evidence that females and males have different academic performance. Moreover, we found that females who obtained scholarship maintain their high performance, while males are indifferent in their academic performance irrespective of their source of funding

Implementation of Inquiry based Learning with OE3R Strategy and the Impacts to Students' Conceptual Understanding in Fundamental of Analytical Chemistry

Chemistry created based on process how scientists work and think to understanding a phenomenon or problem that occurs in natural world. That activities gained through physical and mental activities. Discoveries on Science are obtained and solved using inquiry thinking. Many inquiry-based learning strategies have been developed, one of it’s the OE3R (Orientation – Exploration – Explanation – Elaboration - Reflection) Strategy. The purpose of implementation of OE3R strategy on lecturing Fundamental of Analytical Chemistry are to determine effectiveness and differences of students’ conceptual understanding achievements. This research design using a Quasy experiment with pretest and posttest in two groups with different treatment. The Experimental Group learn using OE3R strategy, then the Control Group using conventional strategy based lecturer method. The subject of research was student in Fundamental of Analytical Chemsitry courses at Chemistry Department, Universitas Negeri Malang. The result show that inquiry-based learning with OE3R strategy as innovation learning effective to make differences of students’ conceptual understanding achievements in this courses.

Developing Digital Comics as Character Learning Media for Elementary School Students

Students are expected to learn and conserve the natural environment. Therefore, it is necessary to integrate technology with character values in the form of developing digital comics for environmental preservation based on character values. This study was designed to develop digital comic learning media for environmental preservation based on character values by using of ADDIE development model. were collected using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Qualitative data were in the form of suggestions, criticisms, responses, and input as described in the questionnaire from the expert judgment. Meanwhile, quantitative data included in the form of percentage values from expert judgment questionnaires arranged on a multilevel scale. Observation, interviews, questionnaires, and tests were used to gather the data. The findings of this study suggested that materials appropriateness and student learning achievement exceed the minimum criteria value set previously. These results show that digital comic learning media based on the character values in integrative thematic learning are declared very feasible and ready to be implemented in integrative thematic learning.