Indonesian Junior High School Research Articles

An item analysis on multiple-choice questions: a case of a junior high school English try-out test in Indonesia

The present study aims to analyze multiple-choice questions obtained from a trial testing conducted in a state junior high school in Indonesia. The study seeks to reveal the level of difficulty, discriminating power and distractor efficiency of the selected test items by employing item analysis. The result of the study discovers that levels of difficulty on the question items are varied. Some question tended to be easy and moderately difficult while the others are difficult to answer. It also uncovers that, in regard to discriminating power, some questions are well constructed while the others are ambiguously worded that can potentially cause the questions to fail to evaluate the students’ ability. The analysis on distractor efficiency presents information how the chosen multiple-choice questions were frequently constructed with less effective distractors that caused more high achieving students to choose wrong answers.

Mathematical creative thinking process of the students: an analysis of Wallas stages and personality types

The process of creative thinking and personality types are two important things that must be considered but often overlooked. The purpose of this study to the investigated mathematical creative thinking process seen the stages of Wallas and personality types of Keirsey. This research is in junior high school in Indonesia with survey research methods. Participants 4 students with the guardian, artisan, rational, and idealist personality types. Data were collected with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) tests, mathematical creative thinking tests, and interviews. The conclusion shows that mathematical creative thinking process of guardian and artisan type: the preparation stage tends to long to understand the problem and in the illumination, a phase is more focused on the ways that have been taught by teachers and less able to develop an idea. While the process of mathematical creative thinking rational type: the preparation phase tends to be faster in understanding the problem, the illumination stage can find ideas and build an idea to develop ideas and ideas unusually. The creative thinking process of idealistic type: in the preparation stage tends to be quick in understanding the problem, the illumination stage is more attached to the ways that teachers have taught.

Error analysis and its causal factors in solving mathematical literacy problems in terms of habits of mind

Errors and factors causing mistakes in solving mathematical problems are important to be analyzed. This study aims to investigate the abilities, mistakes and factors that cause students to do mistake in solving mathematical literacy problems in terms of habits of mind. The study was conducted in junior high schools in Indonesia using a descriptive exploratory method. The participants are 3 students who have habits of mind limited, developing, and professional. Data were collected using mathematical literacy test and habits of mind questionnaire. All instruments used were tested for eligibility by two mathematics education experts. The conclusion shows that students who have habits of mind limited wrong in process skills that are wrong in interpreting and using different representations and expressing reasons, as well as communicating the results of interpretation and reason. While students who have habits of mind developing and proficient wrong in understanding that is wrong in combining different representations, symbols, connecting them to real situations, using a variety of limited skills and expressing various reasons, giving explanations and communicating with arguments. The factors causing errors are hesitation, inaccuracy, not doing calculations, unable to understand the information in the problem correctly, in a hurry in interpreting the problem without interpreting.

Intermodality and Multilingual Re-instantiation: Joint Construction in Bilingual Genre Pedagogy

This paper discusses the roles of intermodality and multilingualism in a genre pedagogy program aimed to improve students’ literacy in Indonesia. It draws on data from an intervention program which extended the Reading to Learn (R2L) genre-based literacy pedagogy to embed English literacy learning in biology lessons for Indonesian junior high school students. This bilingual R2L program is innovative in that it involves the use of written and spoken Bahasa Indonesia and English for both teaching materials and instruction. This particular study focuses on the final stage of the program: The collaborative writing process known as joint construction. This is conducted in the bilingual R2L program by jointly making notes from Indonesian (L1) reading texts, jointly re-instantiating these notes as English (L2) lexis, and then using these L2 notes to jointly construct new L2 texts. The methodology is thus intermodal and multilingual, from written L1 texts, through oral dictation to L1 notes, then through bilingual discussion to re-instantiation as written L2 lexis, and finally through further bilingual discussion to re-instantiation as written L2 text. The study applies genre and register theory to closely examine classroom interactions in Joint Construction, from the perspectives of their structuring, the intermodal sourcing of meanings, and relations between teachers and learners. Evidence from student assessments suggest these designed applications of intermodality and multilingual reinstantiation are highly effective in the development of autonomous skills in L2 science writing. This article aims to describe how and why they are so effective.

The Effect of Global Awareness on Students' Reading Skill Based on Aksi Data

The Indonesian Student Competency Assessment (Asesmen Kompetensi Siswa Indonesia-AKSI) is a national survey aims to monitor the quality of education system across provinces. The results of the AKSI are expected to provide inputs on policies to improve the quality of learning outcomes in particular and the quality of education in general. The objective of AKSI is to measure students’ cognitive abilities, which include science, mathematics and reading. In addition, AKSI also collects data through questionnaires, one of which is about Global Awareness. The purpose of this study was to analyze the influence of student gender, parent’s education level, interest studying other cultures, adaptability and communication, understanding of global problems, tolerance, environmental awareness and school quality on students’ reading literacy skill. The data used in this study are data from the 2019 AKSI survey of 15.738 grade IX students and school accreditation of 1.805 junior high schools in Indonesia. The results of parameter estimation and hypothesis testing using the multilevel regression model concluded that gender, father's education, adaptability and communication skills, understanding of global problems, tolerance of religious and cultural differences and school quality affect students’ reading ability.

The Use of Gesture in Improving Students’ Vocabulary Mastery in Selected Indonesian Junior High School

This presents research explore on the use of gestures to improve students’ vocabulary mastery at the second grade students of Indonesian junior high school. This quantitative research involved 60 students as its sample. The data obtained from the pretest, treatments, and posttest were were analysed to find its mean score and the score of t-test. The result of the study showed that there was a significant improvement of the students’ achievement after giving the treatment. The data shows that the t-test obtained by the students (16.28) is greater than t-table (2.045). This is means that H0 is rejected and H1 is acceptable. The data of students’ interest which were taken by using questionnaire shows that 25 students (83.33%) are in the very high category and left only five students (16.67%) in the high category. It means that the students were interested and this technique is suitable in teaching English vocabulary.

Behavioral Intention of e-Learning: A Case Study of Distance Learning at a Junior High School in Indonesia due to the COVID-19 Pandemic

The spread of COVID-19 caused schools that previously used only a face-to-face system to deliver instruction online from home, a method commonly called e-learning. e-Learning is extremely beneficial in providing cost-effective education irres

Indonesian Pre-Service Science Teachers’ Views on Socio-Scientific Issues-Based Science Learning

This study explores the views of Indonesian junior high school pre-service science teachers (PSTs) towards teaching based on socio-scientific issues (SSIs). Questionnaires were analyzed qualitatively and descriptively. The PSTs (N=62) acknowledged that student competencies ranging from personal to socially relevant skills as well as character formation can potentially be developed through SSI-based instruction. The PSTs mentioned several challenges which may hinder implementation of SSI-based instruction. These include the interdisciplinary and controversial nature of SSIs, a lack of familiarity regarding SSIs, the lack of necessary student skills, insufficient teacher expertise, and curriculum constraints. The PSTs viewed SSIs as able to potentially enhance their personal competencies through SSI-based instruction, mostly with regard to pedagogical skills. The relevance of SSI-based instruction was, however, not seen in as positive a light as the participants’ views on the need of character building. The PSTs’ intentions to later implementing SSI-based instruction ranged from medium to high.

DESIGNING A HEALTHY MENU PROJECT FOR INDONESIAN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Project-based learning (PjBL) is an appropriate learning model that can shape students’ scientific, social and higher-order thinking. Implementing PjBL in education gives students the freedom to plan their own learning activities, conduct projects collaboratively and produce products. In a healthy menu project, PjBL can help students calculate their excess weight. The purpose of this study was thus to design a healthy menu that assists Indonesian junior high school students solve numeracy problems using obesity context. The method followed a design research type validation studies using observation and document reviews as data collection techniques. This study produced a learning trajectory that can help grade VII students solve arithmetic operations using obesity context through two activities. In the first, the students were asked to record their respective heights and weights, then use them to determine their body mass index (BMI) and body mass ratio (BMR). Then, the students confirmed their necessary daily caloric intake, and categorized their BMI and BMR results as underweight, normal, overweight or obese. In the second activity, the students developed healthy menus per their respective tastes based on their weight categories from the first activity. The study concluded with the students successfully producing healthy menus that they designed according to their calculated required daily caloric intake.

Online Learning Management in the Era of Covid-19 Pandemic at Junior High Schools in Indonesia

Aim/Purpose: The purposes of this research are to analyze online learning management activities conducted by the principals of junior high schools in Indonesia in facing COVID-19 as well as to discuss their perspective and expectations towards online learning activities when facing COVID-19 and after COVID-19 has passed. Background: Due to the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Indonesian Minister of Education and Culture instructed that teaching and learning activities for all levels of education in Indonesia must be carried out online from home. There have been comprehensive reports about the various forms of online learning, its effects on students, the challenges, the learning transition from offline to online, and teachers’ views on this new approach. Very few, if any, focus on how principals act upon the transition during this COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, this research focuses on how principals overcome various problems that arise in the implementation of online learning activities. Methodology: As many as 309 principals of junior high school from twelve districts in Indonesia were asked to give their responses to a set of questionnaires. The reliability of the questionnaire was analyzed using Cronbach’s Alpha with the help of SmartPLS 3.0 software. The percentage was mainly used in the descriptive analysis. To obtain the influence among variables, the statistical inferential analysis was used. Contribution: Although the sample size of this research is limited, the results may contribute to the existing theory and practice related to the implementation of online learning in Indonesia. The findings of this research could be a guide for principals to manage online learning in the future. Findings: The data analysis showed that the constructs of organizing and monitoring-evaluation were found to play an important role as a mediator between the variables of planning with implementation of principal management in online learning. Path analysis demonstrated that the implementation variable was significantly influenced by the variables of planning, organizing and monitoring-evaluation, with a contribution value of 78.20%. Thus, it indicated that the planning, organizing and monitoring-evaluation variables contributed directly or indirectly to the implementation of principal management in online learning. Generally, the online learning management activities conducted by the principals of junior high schools in Indonesia have been carried out well, especially in the Implementing aspect. However, the aspects of Planning, as well as Monitoring and Evaluation, still need to be improved. Recommendations for Practitioners: The government is recommended to provide adequate online learning supporting facilities as well as to facilitate teachers to increase insight and knowledge in terms of technology use, especially in designing, implementing, and providing assessments of online learning. So far, the government has provided some facilities and conveniences to principals and teachers. However, some information and ICT related trainings from the government during the COVID-19 pandemic is not widely known by the principals and the teachers. Socialization about these is needed. Recommendation for Researchers: This work offers a theoretical understanding of the problems faced by school principals in facing COVID-19. Further research on how principals and teachers manage online learning activities needs to be carried out to solve various problems which might arise during the process of implementation. Impact on Society: This research suggests that the principals in Indonesia have good online learning management. However, to reach the stated learning objectives efficiently and effectively, the principals need to collaborate with the teachers as the main facilitators of the teaching and learning process. Cooperation with parents is also highly recommended. Future Research: Further research should focus on how the application of online learning can improve students’ achievement through good management and collaboration with teachers, other administration staff at schools, and parents.

INKLUSI PAJAK TERINTEGRASI MATAPELAJARAN MEMBANGUN BUDAYA SADAR PAJAK SEJAK DINI

The partner of community service activities is the Al-Khasyi’un Islamic Junior High School educational institution in Cipayung Subdistrict, Ciputat District, South Tanggerang City, Banten Province. The problem found is that the study of tax inclusion has not been implemented as a national program with integrated subjects. The solution needs to be socialized by conducting training activities for teachers. The goal is for teachers, after participating in socialization activities and training of trainers, to be able to transform their knowledge of tax inclusion in order to build a tax -aware culture from an early age. Methods of implementation, in the form of socialization and training of coaches, to train teachers to become coaches of integrated tax inclusion subjects. media tax inclusion learning materials as well as conducting socialization and training for teachers. It is hoped that the DGC institutions of the Ministry of Ministry of Education and Ministry of Education can follow up by making a pilot project of tax inclusion learning with the learning media that has been developed in more junior high schools in Indonesia. Keywords: tax inclusion, tax awareness, early

The Development of Personal-Cooperative Model in Building the Reading Comprehension Skills

This study aims to identify the need for developing a reading comprehension personal-cooperative-based learning model for junior high school students, build learning models and their learning tools, to test the validity of the results of the learning model by experts and users, testing the effectiveness of the learning model. This study used the Research and Development (R&D) method. There are three stages, namely (1) The exploration stage, (2) The development stage, (3) The testing stage. The number of teachers who were the subject of the study was 20 Indonesian junior high school teachers. There are 32 students for interviews and 317 students for data collection used a questionnaire. The development of the reading comprehension personal-cooperative-based learning model is equipped with four products, namely (1) a conceptual guidebook on reading comprehension learning model, (2) guidelines for reading comprehension personal-cooperative learning model, (3) reading comprehension learning materials, and (4) reading box and answer key box. The results of the feasibility of products of the reading comprehension personal-cooperative-based learning model are declared to be feasible by expert and user validators with an excellent category. Personal-cooperative based reading comprehension learning model is effective in improving students' reading comprehension ability.

Indonesian in Service Teacher’s Production of Directive Speech Acts and Students’ Responses

Teacher uses language as a medium of communication to teach, guide and instruct students in the classroom. This study aims to investigate the English teacher's directives and the students' responses to these directives. This study participants were an English teacher of a junior high school in Indonesia who teaches an eighth-grade class and her students who were chosen purposively. This qualitative case study was collected through observation, and interviews and were then analyzed by following Miles' interactive cyclical model. The results revealed that the teacher mostly produced directive speech acts types of commands and requests rather than suggestions. Commands have been the most commonly used type of directives since the teacher plays a control in the classroom because it is more understandable and familiar for the students. Hence, the students' responses varied, and depended on their response strategies and each personal reason.

How Students’ Perspectives about Online Learning Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic?

This exploration study inspects the perspectives of Indonesian junior high school students towards learning courses amid Coronavirus (COVID-19). Secondary students were overviewed to discover their viewpoints about online training in Indonesia. The discoveries of the investigation featured that web-based learning cannot create wanted outcomes in immature nations like Indonesia, where a larger part of understudies cannot get to the web because of specialized just as money-related issues. The absence of eye-to-eye connection with the educator, reaction time and nonattendance of conventional homeroom socialization were among some different issues featured by advanced education understudies.

The Representation of Values of Mutual Cooperation as A Part of Character Education in An English Textbook

This study aims to analyze all of the written expressions that represent values of mutual cooperation in the English textbook entitled “English in Mind Second Edition (Student’s Book Starter) Special Edition used for seventh graders in Al-Azhar Islamic Junior High Schools in Indonesia and to provide a description regarding to what extent the values of mutual cooperation are encouraged in the textbook. In data collection, content analysis approach was applied following the indicators of values of mutual cooperation from Kemendikbud and other sources. The findings show that (1) 172 expressions are considered having the values of mutual cooperation from six different kinds of values of mutual cooperation, and the most among others is the values of tolerance with the amount of 25% of the total expressions, (2) each of the six different kinds of values of mutual cooperation has different characteristics indicated by keywords, and (3) to some extent, the values of mutual cooperation play a major part that they exist in every section of the materials in the textbook, especially the values of tolerance, and that similar keywords encouraging values of mutual cooperation occur in every section of the textbook.
 

The Praxis of Literacy Movement in Indonesian Context

Indonesia faces challenges in improving its literacy rank. In 2011, the literacy level of Indonesian fourth graders were in the 45th rank (with score 428 under 500) from 48 countries in PIRLS. In 2015 PISA’s report the fifteen-year-old Indonesian Junior High School students, occupied the 64th rank of 72 countries with score 396 under 496. To overcome this problem, the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture issued its Ministerial Regulation no. 23/2015 pertaining the students’ character building. This constitutes the basis of school-based literacy movement (Gerakan Literasi Sekolah). This study explores the praxis of literacy movement at one school (has implemented GLS since 2016) located in the condensed slum area of North Jakarta. Stratified purposeful sampling was deployed to select the research participants, i.e. 290 students and 20 teachers. The data were obtained from questionnaires and interviews. The result showed that not all teachers read the literacy guidelines determined by the government and their reading habit had not met the ideal number. Both teachers and students have different perception regarding to the time and frequency of schoolbased literacy activity. The fifteen minutes reading activity and reading strategies taught by the teachers were not varied. The teachers merely supervised the students while conducting the literacy activity. The students read the books they brought from home. The school-based literacy program gained the students’ literacy competence in understanding level (understand the content of the book they read) and built students’ character such as tolerance, teamwork skills, perseverance, responsibility, confidence, independence, politeness, and composure.
 Keywords: literacy movement, reading literacy, literacy competence, 15-minutereading activity

Urgensi pengembangan TPACK bagi guru bahasa Indonesia

TThe objectives of this reseaerch were to describe: (1) Teachers’ competencies in integrating Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) in lesson plan; (2) The urgency of developing TPACK for Indonesian junior high school teachers. The type of research was the descriptive research with the lesson plans of Indonesian junior high school teachers as substantive data source. The locative data source of this research was the junior high schools in Gunungkidul Regency, Yogyakarta. The data collection technique is done by using document observation and questionnaires. This technique is used to obtain identification of the lesson plan components related to Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) and Technological Content Knowledge (TCK). Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistic method to show the degrees of mastery percentage of Indonesian teachers’ PCK and TCK. The conclusions of this study were stated as follows: (1) the ability of teachers to integrate technology is still limited to the use of PowerPoint, (2) the learning resources used by teachers are still limited to conventional textbooks, not the technology-based online sources, (3) the integration of technology by teachers in preparing lesson plans is still minimum, and (4) teachers are already using technology, but are still limited to CAI (Computer Assisted Instruction). Based on the research results above, it is concluded that the development of TPACK for Indonesian language teachers at the junior high school level is urgent.

Concept of Social Studies Curricula in Junior High Schools in Indonesia and Thailand

This research is conducted collaboratively with Thailand, considering that Thailand is a country that has a similar educational level as applied in Indonesia, from early education to college there is no fundamental difference. Thailand is one of the Asian countries that has the key to success in education, one of which is always based on science and technology; so all the products produced are based on research. Besides, Thailand has a good strategy in supporting education that is supporting and maintaining cultural values, so that Thailand becomes a clean country, legal and discipline, and always adheres to the existing ideology and grow in Thailand. Living values are strong and in the hearts of the people, and this is what enables living values to thrive among students Thai, making life more alive. While all political affairs submitted to the prime minister. A country's education system can be advanced and qualified but requires a very long and lengthy process, especially in disciplining teachers and students, the teacher in Thailand focuses its work on a full-time task. Regarding education in Thai teachers (kunkru) is a determinant of educational success, which is no different from Indonesia. The main problem in this research is: how the concept and implementation of social studies curricula in junior high schools in Indonesia and Thailand.

Storybird-Based Narrative Writing Activities among Indonesian EFL Learners: Focusing on Contributions

The advancement of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) has significantly affected English language teaching, such as the utilization of miscellaneous applications, social media and other digital platforms facilitating the learners to invigorate their language skills, notably L2/FL writing context. However, insufficient attention has been addressed to the contributions of employing storybird to the learners’ narrative writing activities. To fill this void, this study aimed at delineating the contributions of employing storybird to the Indonesian EFL learners’ narrative writing activities. Three Indonesian junior high school learners participated as research participants. The data were gathered through semi-structured interview and analyzed with Thematic Analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006). The findings designated that storybird (1) generated ideas for writing a story (2) facilitated to construct generic structure of English narrative texts (3) considered lexicogrammatical features of English narrative texts (4) produced English narrative texts joyfully and (5) wrote English narrative texts actively. Given these facts, storybird enables the learners to think creatively, provides them enjoyable learning experiences, brings their abstract thoughts to real life and guide them to communicate and collaborate effectively. Â

How the Novelty of Students' Answers in Solving Mathematical Problems?

The impact of giving a thinking freedom opportunity is the diversity of students' answers in solving mathematical problems. The smaller the similarity of students' answers compared to all the answers of students in a class, it means that they have higher creative thinking abilities than other students. It is based on a unique answer compared to the others or in other words it has a higher novelty value than the other answers. The objective of this study was to describe the attainment of the novelty of students' answers in solving mathematical problems. The measurement of novelty of students' answers was carried out on 1,002 students from six junior high schools in Indonesia who had different levels of student's input. The scoring system on the response to the completion of multiple solution tasks was by using the four categories of polytomous in which it is based on the Partial Credit Model (PCM). The data were analyzed by using Quest and Parscale program. The result of this study showed that the students have good skills in solving mathematical problems with new ideas on several items. The items referred to some abilities, such as resolving algebra problems involving money operations, designing a flat shape that has specific characteristics, arranging numbers based on certain patterns, and arranging numbers based on certain patterns. The novelty of this research is that this study considers every answer from students or provides a thinking freedom opportunity for students so that mathematical problems are not absolutely solved with one answer.