Author: Panduan Skripsi

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah menelaah peningkatan kemampuan koneksi dan komunikasi matematik siswa SMP yang diterapkan pembelajaran kontekstual berbantuan program Geometer’s Sketchpad dibandingkan dengan siswa yang diterapkan pembelajaran konvensional, keterkaitan antara kemampuan koneksi dan komunikasi matematis, sikap siswa terhadap pembelajaran kontekstual berbantuan program Geometer’s Sketchpad, dan aktivitas siswa selama pembelajaran kontekstual berbantuan program Geometer’s Sketchpad berlangsung. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain quasi eksperimen dengan kelompok kontrol pretes dan postes. Kelompok eksperimen memperoleh pembelajaran kontekstual berbantuan program Geometer’s Sketchpad dan kelompok kontrol memperoleh pembelajaran konvensional. Untuk mendapatkan data hasil penelitian digunakan instrumen berupa tes kemampuan koneksi, komunikasi matematis dan lembar observasi. Subjek penelitian siswa SMP Negeri 3 Tangerang di Propinsi Banten dengan subjek sampel adalah siswa kelas VII sebanyak dua kelas dari sepuluh kelas yang ada dipilih secara acak. Hasil dari penelitian ini yaitu: (1)Terdapat perbedaan peningkatan kemampuan koneksi dan komunikasi matematik antara kelompok siswa yang belajar dengan menggunakan pendekatan kontekstual dibandingkan dengan siswa yang belajar dengan pendekatan konvensional; (2) Terdapat korelasi positif yang cukup antara kemampuan koneksi dan komunikasi matematik siswa; (3) Pembelajaran dengan menggunakan pendekatan kontekstual memperlihatkan motivasi dan keterlibatan siswa yang baik sehingga terbangun suatu masyarakat belajar dengan suasana yang kondusif.

A wise man said that “you will never be a pious when you never feel loneliness”, because loneliness can be used as an indicator of someone’s level of piety. In loneliness, the awareness of God’s existence can be felt, because in loneliness a person will not be affected by motives that come from the encouragement or motivation of the other persons’ prensence. Meanwhile someone’s piety which is shown in the public, according to the author it is very difficult to assess the real of sincerity. There are thousands motives when someone do observance in the middle of the social communities. This research used a qualitative research method with phenomenological research tradition, in the terms of Lindlof (1995:27) it is called as an interpretive paradigm which is refered to the communication research with qualitative methods that perform the tradition of phenomenology, ethnometodology, symbolic interaction, ethnography and cultural studies.

According to Krashen’s affective filter hypothesis, students who are highly motivated
have a strong sense of self, enter a learning context with a low level of anxiety, and are much
more likely to become successful language acquirers than those who do not. Affective factors,
such as motivation, attitude, and anxiety, have a direct impact on foreign language acquisition.
Horwitz et al. (1986) mentioned that many language learners feel anxious when learning foreign
languages. Thus, this study recruits 100 college students to fill out the Foreign Language
Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) to investigate language learning anxiety. Then, this study
designs and develops an affective tutoring system (ATS) to conduct an empirical study. The
study aims to improve students’ learning interest by recognizing their emotional states during
their learning processes and provide adequate feedback. It is expected to enhance learners’
motivation and interest via affective instructional design and then improve their learning
performance.

In this paper, we describe a prototype of web-based intelligent handwriting education
system for autonomous learning of Bengali characters. Bengali language is used by more than
211 million people of India and Bangladesh. Due to the socio-economical limitation, all of the
population does not have the chance to go to school. This research project was aimed to develop
an intelligent Bengali handwriting education system. As an intelligent tutor, the system can
automatically check the handwriting errors, such as stroke production errors, stroke sequence
errors, stroke relationship errors and immediately provide a feedback to the students to correct
themselves. Our proposed system can be accessed from smartphone or iPhone that allows
students to do practice their Bengali handwriting at anytime and anywhere. Bengali is a
multi-stroke input characters with extremely long cursive shaped where it has stroke order
variability and stroke direction variability. Due to this structural limitation, recognition speed is
a crucial issue to apply traditional online handwriting recognition algorithm for Bengali
language learning. In this work, we have adopted hierarchical recognition approach to improve
the recognition speed that makes our system adaptable for web-based language learning. We
applied writing speed free recognition methodology together with hierarchical recognition
algorithm. It ensured the learning of all aged population, especially for children and older
national. The experimental results showed that our proposed hierarchical recognition algorithm
can provide higher accuracy than traditional multi-stroke recognition algorithm with more
writing variability.

Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh semakin menurunnya sikap nasionalisme
dikalangan mahasiswa. Pada saat ini nasionalisme seakan-akan tenggelam, kini
nasionalisme menghadapi tantangan besar dari pusaran peradaban baru bernama
globalisasi. Nasionalisme sebagai kemampuan dasar (basic drive) serta daya juang
(elan vital) dari sebuah bangsa bernama Indonesia sedang diuji fleksibilitasnya
dalam arti kemampuan untuk berubah sehingga selalu akurat dalam menjawab
tantangan jaman. Fleksibilitas tidaklah mengurangi jiwa nasionalisme, justu
sebaliknya menunjukkan begitu dalamnya nasionalisme mengakar sehingga dalam
waktu bersamaan tetap hidup dan terus-menerus bermetamorfosis.
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui secara nyata tentang pengaruh
pendidikan sejarah terhadap sikap nasionalisme pada mahasiswa program studi
pendidikan sejarah FKIP UHAMKA Jakarta. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode
penelitian kuantitatif serta dianalisis juga dengan kualitatif.
Hasil penelitian memperlihatkan bahwa pendidikan sejarah mempunyai
berpengaruh terhadap sikap nasionalisme dengan hasil harga koefisien R sebesar
0.720 dengan taraf signifikansi 0.000< 0.05, sehingga memperoleh kesimpulan bahwa pengujian menolak H 0 dan menerima H 1 , yang berarti terdapat pengaruh yang signifikan dan positif dari variabel independen pendidikan sejarah terhadap sikap nasionalisme mahasiswa. Hal ini berarti 72% variasi pada sikap nasionalisme dapat dijelaskan dan dipengaruhi oleh variabel pendidikan sejarah, sedangkan sisanya sebesar 18% dijelaskan oleh sebab-sebab lain yang tidak dijelaskan dalam faktor ini. Hal ini menunjukkan besarnya peran pendidikan sejarah terhadap pembentukkan sikap nasionalisme di kalangan mahasiswa. Implikasi hasil penelitian mengisyaratkan bahwa sikap nasionalisme mahasiswa dapat tumbuh dan berkembang apabila pendidikan sejarah yang diberikan kepada mahasiswa dapat menarik dan tidak membosankan. Peran penting dosen sebagai pemegang kebijakan dalam menentukan pembelajaran di kelas tidak dapat diabaikan, karena itu dosen mutlak memiliki wawasan yang luas dan mengetahui berbagai metode dalam pendidikan sejarah sehingga dapat meningkatkan aktifitas dan kreatifitas mahasiswa dalam mengatasi kesulitankesulitan mahasiswa dalam pembelajaran sejarah.

Pembelajaran materi Sejarah merupakan cabang disiplin ilmu sosial dimana Sejarah
memberikan wawasan tentang peristiwa-peristiwa yang terjadi di masa lampau. Metode
pembelajaran yang digunakan pada saat masih kurang variasi dan masih didominasi oleh
guru. Tujuan pembuatan tulisan ini mencoba untuk mengkolaborasikan permainan tradisional
yang ada di daerah Betawi dalam pembelajaran IPS di pendidikan dasar dimana dalam
permainan tradisional memuat kearifan-kearifan lokal yang dapat dijadikan salah satu cara
untuk membentuk karakter dan membantu peserta didik dalam memahami materi yang
diterima. Diharapkan melalui permainan tradisional, peserta didik dapat mengembangkan
kecerdasan intelektual, emosional dan mampu mengembangkan kreatifitas sehingga
pembelajaran IPS khususnya materi Sejarah dapat lebih bermakna.

The present study aims to explore the types of Indonesian EFL students’ strategies to comprehend the economics texts. To identify the types of strategies, retrospections and reading comprehension tests were adopted and analyzed. The results revealed that most students with a low level of English proficiency remained more dependent on the bottom-up strategies than top-down strategies. However, using the bottom-up strategies had facilitated the students comprehend the economics texts. Thus, in spite of its limitation, the study has some implications to ESAP reading in EFL classrooms.

This paper describes the use of single-correct answer (SCA) and multiple-correct answer (MCA) in assessing secondary school students’ grammar proficiency in Indonesia. There were 154 students from year 11aged 15 year old that participated in the study. From the total 154 students; 98 students participated in the SCA test session, 103 students complete the MCA test, and 84 students filled in the survey. In addition, 52 students were recorded to attend the three sessions from the study: SCA, MCA and survey. Result of the study has shown that the design of SCA and MCA in multiple-choice the computer assisted language testing (CALT) program corresponds the main principle of language testing similar to the paper-based testing format. Although the design of both SCA and MCA tests fulfilled the requirement of CALL environment such as interactivity, flexibility, content appropriateness as well as performance; as the nature of test the application of SCA and MCA test in delivering the grammar test was believed to suggest stressful environment. The authenticity setting of both SCA and MCA test which was proposed to promote the originality of students’ work was identified to drive uncomfortable testing situation. Within comparison between the SCA and MCA tests, result of the study has shown that students preferred to SCA test than the MCA test. The SCA test was believed to serve practicality for the students to complete the grammar task for the sake of number of correct answer available. Although students were challenged to complete the grammar test carried within the MCA test format, students preferred not to have such testing as it created more uncomfortable testing environment for them.

The information and communication technology has been utilized by most universities in Indonesia though it is rarely integrated in teaching and learning activities in classes. This paper, as part of a study to foster learner autonomy using technology based approach, investigated the roles of online peer feedback toward learner autonomy development. The data used in this study involved students’ interview transcriptions. The results showed that online peer feedback has facilitated students’ metacognitive strategies and enhanced their motivation to learn writing.

This paper presents how to teach cohesion to EFL students who take English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses at the faculty of economics. The teaching is based on the assumption that the direct involvement of students in selecting course materials and intensive exposure to discourse of economic texts in reading practices can raise students’ awareness and knowledge of the way which the content of connected texts hangs together. This acquaintance can in turn make them have better comprehension of the text.