The Development of Character Education Model to Improve Students’ Academic Independence in Islamic Boarding School in Sinjai District, Indonesia

Abstract

Abstrak The Objektive of this research and development is to crate a description of the operational model of character education amnd to determine the effectiveness of a character education model in ebhancing students’ academic independence. There are some results of this research. First, the description of the prototype model if character education to enhare stuents academic independence consists of five parts, namely rationalization of character education model; Supporting theries of character education for using character education models ; and development of character education model. Second, the operational model of character education is supported by development tool and developed at five stages, namely analysis, desigen, development, implementation, and evaluation. Third, the character education model is effective to enhance students’ academic independence in Islamic Boarding School, Sinjai. Keyword : character education, academic independence, Islamic boarding School