Career Exploration Training to Improve Career Decision Making Self-Efficacy of High School Student in Bandung

Career exploration is important for high school students to face career decision-making difficulties. This study aims to investigate the effect of career exploration training on career decision-making difficulties among 12th-grade high school students. A total of 24 SMAK BPPK grade 12 high school students in Bandung were divided into two matching groups (experimental group and control group) based on pretest scores measured by the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire. Pretest and posttest scores data were analyzed using the related samples t-test. The results of this research show that there is no effect of career exploration training on career decision-making difficulties of grade 12 high school students. This research confirms that career exploration will be beneficial for career decision-making if it is accompanied by confidence and the ability to integrate various information into a decision (creative self-efficacy). This self-efficacy can be supported by parents, older siblings, or teachers.

The Excess of the Incomplete Learning of Reading and Writing of Qur'an towards the Increase in the Quantity of Arabic Illiteracy among Public High School / Vocational High School Students in BandungThis research aimed to find the objective condition of AL-Qur’an illiteracy among senior high school or vocational high school students in Bandung and its causes. It used a descriptive qualitative research methodwith observations and questionnaires as data collection instruments. The results showed the following: 1) the literacy rate of AL-Qur’an illiteracy among senior high school or vocational high school students in Bandung reached an average of 13% and who were not good at reading (tahsin) were 80%; 2) There were many factors of less successful in learning AL-Qur’an, either internal or external factors. The conclusion showed the incomplete Baca Tulis Alquran (BTQ or reading and writing ofAL-Qur’an) in Islamic subject learning caused by AL-Qur’an illiteracy among senior high school / vocational high school students in Bandung. Its inadequacy was due to students’ low perception and motivation in the subject. Their low perception and motivation were due to unclear vision and mission of learning because BTQ learning was not the main school program, and it was also not tested at National Exam and Computer Based Test. Hence, the teacher of Islamic subject and its learning implementation were less noticed. The researchers recommend the new and varied BTQ learning designs and competent teachers to achieve religious Bandung

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of STEM-fishbone diagram learning on critical thinking skills and self-efficacy of high school (SMA) students. This type of research is Quasi-Experimental Design. The population in this study were all students of class XI SMA Al-Kautsar Bandar Lampung. The sampling technique used cluster random sampling, obtained class XI MIPA 5 (experimental class) and class XI MIPA 7 (control class). The collection technique used is in the form of tests and questionnaires. The research instrument used was a test of the ability to think critically and self-efficacy. The technique uses the MANOVA test. The results of the study stated that there was an influence of STEM-fishbone diagram learning on the critical thinking skills and self-efficacy of high school students in Bandar Lampung, besides that it was also known that there was an influence of STEM-fishbone diagram learning on the critical thinking skills of high school students in Bandar Lampung and there was an influence on learning STEM-fishbone diagram on self-efficacy of high school students in Bandar Lampung.

Background: In the process of walking, the foot plays a role in supporting the body weight. Due to continuously withstand the weight; a person will experience foot pain aggravated by the use of improper shoe size. Foot anthropometric data acts as reference in the manufacture of orthotics and shoes with appropriate size while Indonesia still does not have a foot anthropometric data. The purpose of this study is to describe foot anthropometric in high school students in Bandung in order to get the fitted shoes. Methods: The study was performed using observational descriptive method in eighty one students with range age 16–18 years in regionally different three senior high school in Bandung in November 2014. Results: The mean of foot and ankle anthropometry student senior high school in bandung in 2014 are 25.75 cm for Foot Length, 18.82 cm for Ball of Foot Length, 21.57 cm for Outside Ball of Foot Length, 9.70 cm for Foot Breadth Diagonal, 5.43 for Heel Breadth, 6.00 cm Navicular Height, 6.62 cm for Instep Height and 5.06 for Heel to Lateral Malleolus. Conclusion: This anthropometric data helps footwear industry to determine the design and size for the shoe in Indonesia.

Career exploration and career decision-making self-efficacy differences between urban and suburban high school students were investigated. The relationship of career exploration to career decision-making self-efficacy was also explored. The findings suggested that urban students scored significantly higher on career exploration than their suburban counterparts. Additional findings revealed an interaction between ethnicity and setting such that minority urban students reported the greatest amount of confidence in their career decision-making skills. Findings also indicated that beliefs about exploratory behavior were a significant predictor of career decision-making self-efficacy.

Background : During the process of walking, the foot plays a role in supporting the body weight. Due to continously with stand weight, a person will experience foot pain aggravated by the use of improper shoe size. Foot anthropometric data acts as reference in the manufacture of orthotics and shoes with appropriate size, while Indonesia still does not have foot anthropometric data. The purpose of this study was to describe foot anthropometric data of high school students in Bandung in order to obtain good fitting shoes. Methods: The study was performed using observational descriptive method on 81 students aged 16–18 years from three different senior high schools in different regions of Bandung in November 2014. Results : The mean of foot and ankle anthropometry of senior high school students were 25.75 cm for Foot Length, 18.82 cm for Ball of Foot Length, 21.57 cm for Outside Ball of Foot Length, 9.70 cm for Foot Breadth Diagonal, 5.43 for Heel Breadth, 6.00 cm Navicular Height, 6.62 cm for Instep Height and 5.06 for Heel to Lateral Malleolus. Conclusions : The anthropometric data help the footwear industry to determine the design and size for shoes in Indonesia.

The assessment tool for a career currently being developed requires special treatment from a psychologist/psychometrist. The measurements are conducted when students are confused about career options. However, for students who have decided, it is uncommon for them to seek professional help. Psychological tools that focus on capturing information about students’ maturity in relation to their ability to make career decisions can help them choose a major that’s suitable for their career. This study concern on adapting the career decision-making self efficacy (CDMSE) that can predict one’s confidence in his/her ability to make career choices. The adaptation of this instrument went through several stages such as translation, back translation, testing the reliability, and testing the validity evidence of content and internal structure using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). This study used a sample of 539 high school students in Bandung and Cimahi. The construct reliability (CR) of the instrument was α=0.929. The evidence for internal structure using CFA showed that the CDMSE scale has an acceptable goodness of fit index. The standardized loading factor item in the range 0.710-0.998. It can be concluded that the Bahasa Indonesia version of the CDMSE scale has good psychometric properties and can be used for research or assessment to measure a person’s degree of confidence about his/her ability to make career choices.

Background : Uncorrected refractive error is one of the avoidable causes of vision impairment in children and adults. Vision problem in children has been shown to affect their psychological and academic performance. This study aims at identifying and gaining more insights on the characteristic of the refractive errors in state junior high school students in Bandung to avoid uncorrected refractive errors. Methods : A cross-sectional study was conducted in September–November 2015 in state junior high schools in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. Sample was selected using multistage random sampling technique. Children were examined using tumbling E examination; then students with visual acuity worse than 6/12 underwent Snellen Chart test, refractometry without pupil dilatation, correction with trial lens, then was followed by direct ophthalmoscopy. Results : From a total of 435 children who completed all the examination, 80 children (18.39%) had refractive errors; consisted of 151 eyes (94.38%) with myopia and 9 eyes (5.62%) with astigmatism. Refractive errors were found to be more common in female children (73.7%) than male children (26.3%). Among those with refractive errors, 45 children (56.3%) did not use any corrective glasses before the examination. Conclusions : Routine refractive error test in vision screening examination is needed for students. It is equally important to raise more awareness toward eye disease in community. [AMJ.2016;3(3):545–8] DOI: 10.15850/amj.v3n4.936

This research aims to determine the mathematical connection ability of junior high school students in Bandung. This research uses descriptive qualitative method with data triangulation. The instrument used in the form is test description as many as three questions that have been consulted with experts and refers to indicators of mathematical connection ability. The results of this research describe 1) the ability of students to connect between mathematical concepts with a percentage of 58.33%, 2) the ability of students to connect and apply mathematical concepts in other disciplines of sciences with a percentage of 50%, 3) the ability of students to apply mathematical concepts to solving problems in daily life with a percentage of 66.67%. The results showed that the mathematical connection ability of junior high school students in Bandung on the topic of linear function was good enough.

Background Sero-epidemiologic survey of hepatitis B is used todetermine the prevalence of hepatitis B infection in community,particularly among population which has not been covered byhepatitis B immunization program.Objective To determine the prevalence of HBsAg positive amongjunior high school’s students in Bandung.Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted on junior high school(SMP) students. Subjects were selected randomly using stratifiedcluster sampling of 4 junior high schools in Bandung. The inclusioncriteria were students of first and second grade, lived in Bandungarea, without history of hepatitis B immunization. Subjects wereinterviewed and were screened for HBsAg using Reverse PassiveHemagglutination technique.Results There were 341 subjects consisted of 201 girls and 140boys. None of the subjects had any sexual intercourse or intravenousdrugs, while 261 subjects (76.5%) had shared personal care. Historyof blood transfusion was found in 13 subjects (3.8%), tattooing in2 (3.8%), body piercing in 28 (8.2%), and contact with chronicliver disease patients in 16 (4.7%). Based on HBsAg serologic test,3 subjects (2 boys and 1 girl) were found to be positive, thus HBsAgpositive prevalence was 0.9% (95%CI -0.001;0.019). Two of themhad shared personal care with their relatives or friends. None ofthem had tattoo, body pierce, blood transfusion, or contact withchronic liver disease patients. Their physical condition were withinnormal limit. One of them refused to do further laboratory testsbecause no permission from his parents. Liver function of thosestudents were normal, anti-HBc IgM were negative, and total anti-HBc were positive in two of them.Conclusion The prevalence of HBsAg positive in junior highschool students in Bandung is low and there is no obvious riskfactor for the transmission of the disease.

Vocational High School is a secondary education level as a continuation of SMP/MTs which in its curriculum provides various specific expertise programs according to the competencies aimed at the vocational school. With these skills, it is intended that SMK graduates can immediately work according to their expertise. But in reality, this is not the case, many SMK graduates are not absorbed in the field of work, even SMK graduates are the biggest contributor to the Open Unemployment Rate (TPT) compared to other education levels in West Java. The problems above indicate that SMK graduates are not ready to enter the field of work. This readiness is not only related to the skills readiness demanded by the job providers or companies, but more importantly because of their unstable career maturity. Career maturity here is related to how their career planning is, the extent to which they explore their careers, how they make decisions and the last is the extent to which they seek information about the field of work according to the vocational school they choose. This study wants to explore the description of the career maturity of vocational school students in Bandung, through descriptive statistical methods, the description is analyzed and becomes the career maturity profile of vocational students. As the research sample is the State Vocational High School Students in Bandung. The results showed that the majority of SMK Negeri students' career maturity was in the medium and low categories. The career maturity of SMK female students is slightly higher than the SMK male students. Among the 4 aspects of Career Maturity, the aspects of career exploration and word of work information are lower than other aspects.

— High school students are able to achieve responsible social behavior, one of which is to behave prosocial. Prosocial behavior is behavior that is intended to provide benefits to others (Carlo & Randall, 2002). However, it was found that prosocial behavior decreased, especially in high school students, where there was still a lack of desire for students to help others, even though these students knew the feelings felt by people who needed help or had sufficient emotional intelligence. Where by having emotional intelligence students will be able to be socially responsible (Salovey, P., et., Al., 2001). The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between emotional intelligence and prosocial behavior in high school students in Bandung. The research method used is correlational. The sampling technique used was cluster random sampling with a total of 383 high school students in Bandung. The measuring instruments used are The Assesing Emotion Scale by Schutte (2009) to measure emotional intelligence and Prosocial Tendecies Measures by Carlo & Randall (2003) to measure prosocial behavior. This study uses the Spearman Rank correlation analysis technique. The resulting correlation value is 0.530 and the p-value (Sig.) = 0.000 <α = 0.05. The results of this study indicate a moderate relationship between emotional intelligence and prosocial behavior in high school students in Bandung. A positive value on the correlation indicates that the higher the emotional intelligence, the higher the prosocial behavior. Keywords — Emotional Intelligence, High School Student, Prosocial Behavior.

Physical appearance for young women is important to show their existence. Physical and body condition and face are ideal images that are expected by every teenager. Various efforts are made by most teenagers to improve their image in order to get positive from the environment. Gratitude is important for overcoming the difficulties of excessive body maintenance. Gratitude and body image are interesting things to study so this research is to understand the relationship between gratitude and body image in Bandung X Senior High School students. The research subjects were 36 female high school students who had ideal body weight through the calculation of the Body Mess Index (BMI). The researcher developed two research measuring instruments, namely the Gratitude Scale from the concepts of Al Qayyim and Abdul Syukur and body image from Cash, 2002. The data analysis technique used was the Spearman test analysis. The results of the analysis obtained the participation coefficient r of 0.590 (p = 0,000; p&gt; 0.05). These results indicate that there is a significant relationship between gratitude and higher body image, gratitude, the more positive the body image.

The academic problems of high school students that often happens are ineffective learning method, completion of tasks and exercises, search and use of learning resources, learning difficulties, lack of concentration in learning and other high academic demands. On such problems, the researcher surveyed 30 high school students and the results showed that 60% of 30 high school students have low academic self-efficacy. The factors of academic self-efficacy include family, neighborhood and school. Attachment may affect self-efficacy which is critical to academic success. The research was carried out by distributing the attachment style and academic self-efficacy scale to 247 high school students in Jakarta. The results showed that there was a significant positive relationship between secure attachment style and academic self-efficacy of high school students (r = 0.130 and p = 0.040). In addition there was a significant negative relationship between a fearful-avoidant attachment style attachment and self-efficacy of academic high school students (r = -0, 198 and p = 0.002).

This research is based of low mathematics creative thinking ability from students in Vocassional High School in order to be needed study method to solve that problem. Alternatife of study method and strategy is use Mind Mapping method by Thinking Aloud Pair Problem Solving (TAPPS) strategy. The purpose of this research is to identify weather achievement of mathematics creative thinking ability of students in High School through use Mind Mapping method by Thinking Aloud Pair Problem Solving (TAPPS) strategy is better than use convensional study. The population in this study were vocational high school students in Bandung, while the sample was SMK MAARIF Cicalengka and selected two classes randomly from all of the existing XI class. Then from the two classes are assigned randomly into the experimental class and control class. The experimental class received learning get Mind Mapping Method by Thinking Aloud Pair Problem Solving (TAPPS) strategy and control class gained regular learning. The instrument used is the test of creative thinking ability mathematically. Based of the calculation and hypothesis test concluded that the achievement of creative thinking ability of mathematic of students who get Mind Mapping Method with Thinking Aloud Pair Problem Solving (TAPPS) Strategy is better than those who get regular learning.