Abstract: Character Education for Chemistry Students Through PracticumsLaden with Life-Skills. This study aims to build chemistry students’ charactersthrough Physical Chemistry I and II practicums laden with life skills. This actionresearch study consisted of four steps, i.e. planning, action, observation andreflection and involved students joining Physical Chemistry I and II laboratorywork. The study focused on psychomotor and affective aspects. The instrumentswere observation sheets and questionnaires. The data were analyzed using thequalitative descriptive technique. The results show that Physical Chemistry I and IIlaboratory work activities laden with life skills can build students’ characters. Theycan develop such characters as discipline, responsibility, obedience, thoroughness,thriftiness, truthfulness, gentleness, tolerance, initiative, creativeness, and wisdom.Keywords: life skills, character building

AbstractDeveloping a Model of Authentic Assessment in Language Learning. Thisstudy aims to produce a guidebook to authentic assessment in language learning,conducted in three years. In the first year, a field survey was conducted to obtaininformation about learning and assessment from Indonesian language teachers ofjunior high schools in Yogyakarta Special Territory and from researcher colleagues.The data were collected through questionnaires, interviews, documents, trainingand assistance, and focus group discussion. The data from the questionnaires wereanalyzed by percentage and other data by the qualitative descriptive technique.The survey shows that (1) generally teachers have not understood andimplemented authentic assessment in language learning, (2) strategies to empowerteachers are implemented through training, workshop, and assistance on designingand implementing authentic assessment, (3) teachers and researcher colleaguesexpect that the guidebook contains concepts of authentic assessment to measurelanguage competence, uses simple language, is easy to follow, and providesconcrete examples, and (4) the guidebook can accommodate the expectations.Keywords: authentic assessment, guidebook, CTL

AbstractEffects of the Contextual Teaching and Learning Approach on the LearningAchievement in Indonesian Language Reading Comprehension of Year IV Studentsof Elementary Schools. This study aims to investigate effects of the ContextualTeaching and Learning (CTL) approach on learning achievement in Indonesianlanguage reading comprehension of groups of students based on their learningmotivation. This study was an experimental study employing a 2x2 factorialdesign. The independent variable had two levels, i.e. the CTL approach and theconventional approach. The population comprised all 61 Year IV students of SDNSidoarum and SDN Krapyak. The instruments consisted of an achievement test anda learning motivation questionnaire. The data were analyzed by means of a twowayANOVA and the Scheffe test. The results show that (1) there is a difference inlearning achievement between the students in the experimental group and those inthe control group, (2) there is a difference in learning achievement betweenstudents with high motivation in the experimental group and those in the controlgroup, (3) there is a difference in learning achievement between students with lowmotivation in the experimental group and those in the control group, (4) the CTLapproach is more effective than the conventional approach, and (5) there is nointeraction between approaches and learning motivation.Keywords: learning achievement in reading comprehension, CTL approach,learning motivation

AbstractEffectiveness of Picture Stories in Value Education and Language Skills inIndonesian Language Learning. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness ofpicture stories to improve learning achievement in value education (honesty,patience, and religious worship) and language skills (listening and reading) inIndonesian language learning. This study was a quasi-experimental studyemploying the pretest-posttest control group design. The population comprised all114 Year II students of MIN Tempel Sleman Yogyakarta. The sample, selected bythe random sampling technique, consisted of 70 students, divided into theexperimental group and the control group. The results show that (1) the learningachievement in value education of the students in the experimental group is higherthan that of the students in the control group, and (2) the learning achievement inlanguage skills of the students in the experimental group is higher than that of thestudents in the control group. It can be concluded that the use of picture stories iseffective for value education and Indonesian language skills.Keywords: picture stories, value education, language skills

AbstractImproving Analytical, Synthetic, and Evaluative Skills through Problem-Solving Learning. This study aims to improve high-level cognitive abilities of thestudents of SMKN 2 Wonosari through problem solving. This study was an actionresearch study conducted in two cycles. The subjects were 32 Year 2 students ofAutomotive Mechanical Engineering of SMKN 2 Wonosari. The instrument was theresearcher, equipped with teacher observation sheets and student and teacherfeedbacks. The data were analyzed by the quantitative descriptive technique,supported by the qualitative technique. The study showed that the atmosphere wasmore conducive for learning, indicated by the improvement of students’ activenessin asking questions, the decrease of off-tasks, and the decrease of one’s dependenceon others. The level of class disturbance tended to decrease, indicated by thedecreasing number of relaxed and noisy students. There was an improvement oflearning mastery although it was relatively small. The improvement of students’cognitive abilities was high, indicated by their scores that tended to increase andtheir work reports after learning.Keywords: analytical, synthetic, and evaluative skills, problem solving

AbstractSports and Physical Fitness in Early Age Children. Sports activities areimportant for early age children. Through such activities they can improve theirphysical fitness and the quality of their organs, including the heart, lungs, bloodcirculation, energy metabolism, growth hormones, immune system, and secretionsystem. The improvement will result in the higher quality of their physical andspiritual conditions. Characteristics of good sports activities for early age childrenare that: (1) they provide a variety of movements (multilateral training) in the formof games and competitions, (2) they stimulate the development of all the fivesenses, (3) they develop imagination, and (4) they follow a rhythm/song and astory. Early age children’s physical fitness can be controlled by taking account oftheir body composition, namely by maintaining the balance between the foodintake and the physical activities.Keywords: early age children, sports, physical fitness

AbstractAquatic Learning for Preschoolers. This article discusses an appropriate andfun method in aquatic learning for preschoolers and provides a guideline toimprove the process of aquatic learning for them. This article is based on literatureon aquatic learning for preschoolers. The process of preschool aquatic learningdeals with the development of children’s potentials through three aspects: basicpsychomotor skill, basic attitude, and basic understanding. The basic psychomotorskill consists of: (1) water entry, (2) buoyancy, (3) leg action, (4) balance in thewater, (5) arm action, and (6) breath control. The basic attitude consists of (1)bravery, (2) facility sharing, (3) respect for the rules, (4) attention to instructions,and (5) willingness to participate. The basic understanding consists of (1) classprocedures, (2) swimming pool rules, (3) playing rules, (4) instruction language,and (5) mechanics. The aquatic learning program should also consider cognitiveand affective aspects, besides the psychomotor aspect.Keywords: aquatic learning, preschool

AbstractDeveloping the Quality Culture through the Application of ISO 9001:2000 inYogyakarta State University. One achievement that Yogyakarta State University(YSU) has attained in an attempt to be a world class university is that it hasreceived the ISO 9001:2000 certificate, a standard certification for the quality of auniversity’s work units. The meaning of quality management according to ISO9001:2000 is a management system to direct and control an organization in terms ofquality. The certification is carried out to develop an organization’s cultureconducive for quality development, called a quality culture. Such a culturecomprises values, beliefs, and expectations owned and developed by members ofthe organizations in terms of quality products and services. A strong qualityculture will support YSU’s competitive excellence in the long run.Keywords: quality management, quality culture

AbstractThe Relevance of the Standards of Competence and Basic Competence inNatural Science Subjects to the Development of Ideational Learning in Year VII ofPilot International Standard Junior High Schools in Yogyakarta Special TerritoryProvince. This study aims to investigate the relevance of the standards ofcompetence and basic competence to the development of ideational learning inPilot International Standard Junior High Schools (PISJHSs). This study wasconducted in Yogyakarta Special Territory Province and employed a surveymethod involving 36 teachers of Year VII of PISJHSs. The survey instrument was aquestionnaire that the researchers developed. The results show that all standards ofcompetence and basic competence for Year VII students in semesters 1 and 2 arecapable of developing ideational learning. Therefore, it is not necessary to add newstandards of competence and basic competence to develop ideational learning.However, it is still necessary to add indicators leading ideational learning to thebasic competence in the syllabus of the school-based curriculum in PISJHSs.Keywords: standards of competence, basic competence, ideational learning

AbstrakManfaat Word Concordance bagi Guru Bahasa. Sampai saat ini analisis corpusdan mesin concordance sudah banyak digunakan di negara-negara penggunabahasa Inggris, meskipun di Indonesia belum banyak dikenal dan digunakandalam pembelajaran bahasa dan penelitian linguistik. Artikel ini membahasmanfaat analisis concordance dalam pembelajaran bahasa Inggris atau bahasaasing lainnya, terutama bagi pembelajar Indonesia. Manfaat yang dapat diambildari analisis ini adalah bahwa pembelajar dapat mengetahui bagaimana sebuahkata digunakan dan membandingkan penggunaan kata tersebut olehnya denganpenggunaan oleh penutur asli. Dengan cara ini, pembelajar dapat mengetahuiapakah penggunaan kata tersebut sudah alamiah dan tepat atau belum. Denganbantuan analisis ini, belajar struktur kalimat, frasa, kolokasi, dan diksi menjadilebih mudah dan tepat karena rujukan yang diambil adalah penggunaan bahasayang nyata. Untuk pengembang bahan pelajaran, cara ini menyediakan data untukpemilihan kata yang sesuai, daftar kata yang paling sering dipakai oleh pengguna,dan cara penggunaannya.Kata kunci: corpus analysis, concordance

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between students' social interactions and their Indonesian language learning achievement in Madrasah  Ibtidaiyahs in Gorontalo Regency. Students' social interactions included parents' upbringing patterns, the peer interaction, and the teacher-student interaction in the learning process. This study was an ex post facto study involving parents' upbringing patterns, the peer interaction, and the teacher-student interaction as the independent variables X1, X2, and X3, respectively. The intervening variable was the learning motivation (X4) and the dependent variable (Y) was the Indonesian language learning achievement. The research population comprised all Year V students in 25 Madrasah Ibtidaiyahs in Gorontalo Regency. The sample was selected by using the multi-stage sampling technique and it consisted of 9 Madrasah Ibtidaiyahs involving 101 Year V students. The research instruments included a questionnaire to measure the independent and intervening variables. The data were analyzed using the multiple regression and path analyses at p < 0.05. The results of the research data analysis showed that the direct and indirect effects of the parents' upbringing patterns (X1) on the learning achievement through the learning motivation (X4) were 0.177 and 0.0458. The direct and indirect effects of the peer interaction (X2) on the learning achievement through the learning motivation (X4) were 0.277 and 0.0717. The direct and indirect effects of the teacher-student interaction (X3) on the learning achievement through the learning motivation (X4) were 0.266 and 0.0689. The direct and indirect effects of all independent variables as an aggregate on the learning achievement through the learning motivation were 0.678 and 0.1756. The peer interaction was the one with the strongest direct effect, namely 0.277, on the Indonesian language learning achievement among other variables in the study.Keywords: social interaction, parents' upbringing patterns, peer interaction, teacher-student interaction, learning achievement

AbstractThis study aimed to: (1) investigate the readiness of Vocational High School(VHS) students, the schools, and the industry to implement the industrialpracticum, (2) describe the implementation of the industrial practicum, and (3)describe the result of the industrial practicum implementation. This study was anevaluation research study using the Countenance Model. The research populationcomprised all teachers and principals of VHSs, all the industrial practicuminstructors, and all Year III VHS students of the building engineering expertiseprogram in Makassar City. The sample was selected using the proportionatestratified random sampling technique. The results showed that VHS students wereready to carry out the industrial practicum. This was supported by theirknowledge, basic skills and ability and socialization by the schools. VHSs wereready to implement the industrial practicum. Large- and middle-scale industrieswere ready to implement the industrial practicum. However, only 75% of smallscaleindustries were ready to do so. Cooperation between industries, especiallysmall ones, and vocational schools was less satisfactory. A few middle- and largescaleindustries, on the other hand, were quite good. The students’ activities in theindustrial practicum ran well because they were supported by their ability to adaptthemselves with the industrial environment. Their basic practical skills were poor.The teachers were also good, indicated by the intensity of their visits to theindustries during the industrial practicum. Such visits improved the students’motivation and supported them. The instructors also performed the activities well,especially in guiding the students during the industrial practicum. The instructorscontinuously provided guidance to the students before accomplishing assignmentsand checked the results. The final assessment by the instructors included students’attendance, discipline, motivation, work quality, initiative, creativity, attitudes, andperformance. In the final achievement, most students were in the very satisfactorycategory and only a few were in the moderate category.Keywords: program evaluation, industrial practicum

AbstractThis study aimed to investigate effects of Indonesian children’s songs, Javanesechildren’s songs, and Western classical music as the musical backgrounds for thelearning environments in the kindergartens on the students’ achievement. Thestudy was conducted in the area of Sinduadi with a population comprising 45students of TK ABA Kutu Asem, 35 students of TK Pertiwi Sinduadi, and 55students of TK Tunas Muda Kutu Dukuh. The students were asked to listen to thetree types of songs, each for one month and were then given a test. To investigatethe effect of each treatment, the pretest and posttest data were employed. Thepretest was administered as a control before the treatment was given and theposttest to find out the effect of the treatment. The tests were administered tomeasure the students’ thinking ability and skills and the questionnaire to collect thedata on the students’ environmental characteristics. The students’ achievementscores, the time to finish the pretest and posttest, and their characteristics wereanalyzed by (a) the paired-samples t-test at p < .05 using SSPS 12.0 for Windows tofind out the effect of the treatment, and (b) the description of the students’characteristics to interpret the meanings. The results of the study showed thatIndonesian children’s songs and Javanese children’s songs had positive effects andWestern classical music had negative effects. This showed that there was acorrelation among the students’ musical environment, the musical treatment effect,and the students’ achievement. The treatment with music that the students werefamiliar with had positive effects or made them learn with comfort so that theywere able to improve their achievement, but that with music that they wereunfamiliar with made them unable to concentrate so that their achievement wentdown.Keywords: music, concentration, students’ achievement

AbstractIn his two novels, Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code, Dan Browndescribes the clash of the Illuminati Order and Priory of Sion against the VaticanChurch. These secret societal groups are described as secret groups having thecommon roots and both are presented in the two novels although they are not themain theme. However, these two secret groups have the common relation to thestarting point of the development of religions in Europe. These groups are theagents of the emergence of residual paganism through Kabbalah and Old Egyptoccultism in Europe recently. They are known as Freemason, their ideology focuseson materialism and secular humanism, and atheism becomes their important faith.Although only fictional works, Brown’s two novels have taken part in thecontestation of religiosity struggle in Europe as a discourse.Keywords: religiosity struggle, Vatican Church, paganism, atheism

AbstractPoverty eradication is one indicator of the success of the development attempts.Poverty is a complex and multidimensional problem. Attempts to eradicatepoverty that have been made so far are not successful because they focus only oneconomic aspects, not on empowerment and involvement of the local people byestablishing local societal institutions. Autonomous PNPM is a program toeradicate poverty that is based on empowerment through learning by (1) creatingan atmosphere accommodating values of universal humanitarianism, societalprinciples and sustainable development (2) strengthening local societal institutions,(3) strengthening potentials through funding, training, and environmentaldevelopment, and (4) protecting the certainty of the programs for the poor.Keywords: poverty, empowerment, autonomous PNPM

AbstractThis study aimed to find out the gene inheritance pattern of the gembel hair in afamily in Solomerto Village, Solomerto District, Wonosobo Regency, to design alocal phenomenon based module for genetics learning, and to investigate thereadability of the learning module. This study was based on the data of the familytree map of a family with the gembel hair inheritance that could be traced to threegenerations so that this fulfilled the requirements to trace the gene inheritance. Thedata on the gembel hair inheritance were collected through observations andinterviews. The data were then analyzed to find out the characteristic inheritanceby making a map of the family tree and determining the genotype possibility ofeach family member. To investigate the readability of the module, 20 students ofSMA Negeri 8 Yogyakarta were selected as the sample. The data were analyzedusing the qualitative descriptive technique. The results of the study on the basis ofthe family tree map showed that the gembel hair gene inheritance was determinedby the recessive autosomal gene. The students gave positive responses to the localphenomenon based learning module in terms of the material coverage, the materialexplanation, the number of test items, the item difficulty level, the instruction, andthe key answers.Keywords: genetics, local phenomenon, learning module, gembel hair

AbstractThis study aimed to find empirical evidence that in Technical Drawing studentstaught by the programmed instruction model attained higher achievement thanthose taught by the conventional teaching model. This study was a quasiexperimentalstudy. The research subjects were students of the Department ofMechanical Engineering, the Faculty of Engineering, the Yogyakarta StateUniversity. Group A2 was selected as the experimental group, consisting of regularS1 students, and Group B1 as the control group, consisting of regular D3 students.The group members were non-randomly selected. The data were analyzed usingthe t-test. The result showed that the tobserved (17.717) was higher than the ttable(2.038) at p < .05, indicating that there was a significant difference between the twogroups. The students in the experimental group attained a higher mean score thanthose in the control group. In other words, in Technical Drawing, the studentstaught by the programmed instruction model attained higher achievement thanthose taught by the conventional teaching method.Keywords: programmed instruction, Technical Drawing

AbstractThis study described the consultation opportunity, consultation materials,reasons, academic advisors’ (AAs) responses, students’ responses, and effects ofAAs’ guidance on students’ achievement. The research subjects comprised studentsof the Faculty of Languages and Arts, the Yogyakarta State University, consistingof two groups, namely those who were interviewed (selected by the snow balltechnique) and those who were given an open questionnaire (selected by thestratified random technique). The data were analyzed using the qualitativedescriptive technique. The data credibility was enhanced by the participationlengthening, interview details, triangulation, and peer checking. The results wereas follows. (1) In general, the students consulted with their AAs during theconsultation period. (2) On the average, the consultation frequency was once ortwice a semester. (3) They consulted with not only their AAs but also otherlecturers. (4) They consulted with their AAs when they needed their AAs and theAAs responded to them; they consulted with other lecturers when they found itdifficult to see their AAs, they felt scared and hesitant, and the AAs did notrespond to them. (5) Most consultation materials were academic in nature. (6) MostAAs gave the students positive responses and only few AAs were not responsiveor indifferent. (7) Most of the AAs’ suggestions were positive and only few wereuseless and irrelevant. (8) The students suggested that AAs should be easy to see,have schedules, and conduct the consultation not in public. (9) Constraints in theconsultation included the difficulty to see AAs because they were busy, therelationship which was not close, the students who were not open, shy, scared andhesitant to see their AAs, and the large number of students. (10) Most studentsrealized the contribution of the consultation with their AAs to their achievement.Keywords: Academic Advisor, academic consultation

AbstractMoral value education is both a demand and a need for human beings as amanifestation of togetherness in terms of nations and countries with a variety ofproblems. There are a lot of problems, such as global terrorism andmultidimensional crises, which one country cannot solve on its own because to doso it needs other countries’ supports. Moral value education is an alternativeproblem solution which is local, regional, national, and international in nature. Ithas become a global issue in several countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, India, andChina) and it has some differences and similarities. The differences result from thecountries’ different ideologies. However, such countries emphasize moral valueeducation on moral ethic values, especially on values related to human rights thatare universal and global in nature. The concept of moral value education proposedby Kohlberg and Miller tends to be individualistic. Therefore, its needs to becomplemented by taking account of the paradigm proposed by Capra that humanlife is built on the basis of a systemic and holistic view of life, one which is notpartial and individualistic. In its implementation, it needs an appropriate approachand a relevant method and technique. The approaches to moral value educationinclude inculcating, modelling, facilitating, and skill development approaches, andthe methods include dogmatic, deductive, inductive, and reflective methods.Keywords: moral value education, global perspective

AbstractIn the era of Competency-Based Curriculum/School-Based Curriculum, theassessment emphasizes students’ performance in each subject. They are required toacquire not only the cognitive aspect but also the performance aspect. Oneassessment model relevant to this is the authentic assessment. Such an assessmentemphasizes students’ ability to meaningfully demonstrate the knowledge theyhave acquired. The assessment not only asks questions about the knowledge theyhave acquired, but also requires the actual performance relevant to the knowledge.There are some differences between a traditional assessment and an authenticassessment. The former emphasizes the elicitation of knowledge the students haveacquired through objective tests, while the latter emphasizes the tasks that makethe students practice meaningfully learning outcomes in real life, reflecting themastery of knowledge and skills in a particular subject. The necessary steps todevelop an authentic assessment include (1) setting the standard; (2) assigningauthentic tasks; (3) selecting the criteria; and (4) designing the rubric. One popularauthentic assessment at present is the portfolio assessment model. This model is aclass-based assessment conducted during the learning process. A portfolio is acollection of students’ works systematically arranged during a certain learningperiod, used to monitor the development of the students’ knowledge, skills, andattitudes in a particular subject.Keywords: authentic assessment, traditional assessment, portfolio