Private Senior High School Research Articles

PRIVATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS’ SELF-EFFICACY IN UNDERSTANDING STUDENTS’ NEEDS DURING THE ONLINE LEARNING

During the pandemic, everyone is required to do activities at home, including the teaching-learning process, which is done online. Students’ needs should be taken seriously by teachers. High self-efficacy is essential, and teachers must regulate their emotions in teaching students online learning. This research aimed to determine teachers’ self-efficacy in understanding students’ needs and strategies for regulating their emotions during online teaching-learning. During the teaching-learning process, teachers may face various students’ characteristics, and sudden situations that happen during the process may stress the teachers. Therefore, teachers need self-efficacy that will help them regulate themselves to execute their actions and solve problems. This qualitative research employed an open-ended questionnaire distributed to five private senior high school teachers, and an in-depth interview was conducted with three private senior high school teachers. The findings revealed that self-efficacy and emotion-regulation strategies were the main factors for teachers to understand their students’ needs during the teaching-learning process. It is recommended that future researchers interested in expanding this topic do extensive research to check its trustworthiness and provide further information about it.

The Effect of Organizational Trust and Job Satisfaction on Teachers’ Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) in Private Senior High Schools

This research aims to investigate and describe the variables that positively influence teachers' OCB so that if the variable is improved, the OCB will increase. This research method begins with determining the conceptual model of teacher OCB, organizational trust, and job satisfaction, whose model is built based on logical validity, concepts, theories, and previous research. Then the conceptual model was tested using path analysis on SMART PLS. This research was conducted at private senior high schools in West Java, Indonesia; the number of samples was 256, determined through multistage proportional random sampling. The findings of this research are: organizational trust affects teacher OCB; organizational trust affects job satisfaction; job satisfaction affects teacher OCB; organizational trust has a positive and significant indirect effect on teacher OCB. This research implies that improving teachers' OCB can be done through improving organizational trust and job satisfaction, including strengthening environmental influences, demonstrating integrity, competence, and policies of the school, improving welfare payments, promotion, supervision, and improving the work atmosphere.

EFFECTIVENESS OF USING GOOGLE TRANSLATE AS A TOOL FOR ASSISTING STUDENTS IN DOING EXERCISES IN ENGLISH SUBJECT CLASSROOM

This research was conducted to find out whether Google Translate is effective or not in assisting students doing their exercises in English subject classroom. The method used was Classroom Action Research (CAR). The population of this research was the 31 active students of XI MIPA class in one of Batam's private senior high school; SMA Kartini Batam. Before conducting a thorough research, an observation was conducted in order to understand the students' behaviour and their opinions regarding the use of gadget and Google Translate in English subject classroom. Afterwards, students were given a pre-test in a form of exercise for their English class. They were not allowed to use anything in working on their exercise. The required score was 77 to be marked as pass. The total mean score was 81.9 for the pre-test. It can be concluded that they are still knowledgeable even though they were not utilizing the machine translation. After reviewing and giving feedback to the students, the post-test was commenced with 92.9 as the result. It can be said that the use of Google Translate in assisting students doing their exercises in English subject classroom is effective and enhanced students' knowledge.

Perbandingan Motivasi dan Hasil Belajar Siswa Antar SMA di Kota Medan pada Pelajaran Pendidikan Agama Islam

Student motivation is one of the factors that affect student learning outcomes, and will not be separated from the environment that supports learning activities in students. The background where students live can also affect their learning motivation and learning outcomes. The purpose of this study was to analyze and test hypotheses regarding the differences in learning motivation and learning outcomes of students at Al-Ulum Private High School Medan and Private Nurul Islam Indonesia High School Medan. The hypotheses of this study include: 1) There are differences in the learning motivation of students at the Al-Ulum Private High School Medan and the Private Nurul Islam Indonesia Senior High School Medan in the subject of Islamic Religious Education. 2) There are differences in student learning outcomes of Al-Ulum Private Senior High School Medan with Private Nurul Islam Indonesia High School Medan in Islamic Religious Education subjects. The method used in this study is a descriptive method with a comparative technique with a quantitative approach. The population of this study were all students of Al-Ulum Private High School Medan and Private High School Nurul Islam Indonesia Medan class XI for the academic year 2021-2022. The sample size is 86 students, with the sampling technique used is quota sampling. The research instrument used is a student learning motivation questionnaire with 45 questions that have been tested for validity and reliability; and documentation of student learning outcomes obtained from students' daily test scores; Data analysis used Independent Sample T-Test. The conclusions obtained from the results of this study are: 1) The learning motivation of Al-Ulum Medan Private High School students is better than the learning motivation of Indonesian Nurul Islam Private High School students, it is shown by the Al-Ulum Private High School Medan students are more active in learning Religious Education Islam compared to the students of the Indonesian Nurul Islam Private High School. This is evidenced by the average value of the learning motivation of the private high school students of Al-Ulum Medan of 93.12 while the learning motivation of the students of the private high school of Nurul Islam Indonesia is 83.72. 2) The learning outcomes of the private high school students of Al-Ulum Medan have similarities with the learning outcomes of the private high school students of Nurul Islam Indonesia. This is evidenced by the average value of student learning outcomes of Al-Ulum Private High School Medan of 87.34 while the learning outcomes of Indonesian Nurul Islam Private High School students of 85.89. 3) There is a significant difference in student learning motivation in Islamic Religious Education subjects between Al-Ulum Private High School students and Nurul Islam Indonesian Private High School students with a significance level of 0.006. 4) There is no significant difference in student learning outcomes in Islamic Religious Education subjects between Al-Ulum Private High School students and Nurul Islam Indonesian Private High School students with a significance level of 0.428.

Students’ Self-regulation in English Reading Comprehension during Online Class in Yogyakarta Private Senior High School

The learning process in Indonesia has predominantly been conducted online since March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This online learning mode has also influenced students’ motivation in learning, especially in comprehending reading texts. Considering that problem, the researchers sought to investigate how the students regulated their comprehension in reading during an online class. This research used a mixed-method. The questionnaires were distributed to 30 students and analyzed as quantitative data. Then, the researchers chose four students randomly for interview purposes. The interview transcript was used as qualitative data. In conclusion, not all of the students could regulate themselves in comprehending English text during the online class well. Based on the data, students who could regulate themselves in comprehending the English texts during online class should develop the following procedure: (1) implementing learning autonomy, (2) implementing learning focus, and (3) using critical thinking. Meanwhile, students who could not regulate themselves well were inclined to perform minimally. Since students had different ways to regulate themselves, the teacher needed to monitor the students in online learning process so that the students could achieve a meaningful learning process. To improve students’ regulation in reading comprehension, the teacher can implement suitable learning activities.

Development of Interactive Learners' Packet in Teaching Understanding Culture, Society and Politics

This study aimed to determine the different levels of evaluation of Senior High School Social Science Teachers and Information and Communication Technology Teachers on the Developed Interactive Learners? Packet in teaching Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics in public and private Senior High Schools in Santa Cruz District, Division of Laguna. Specifically, the study attempted to answer the questions; 1. Determine the evaluation in the component of Interactive Learner?s Packet in terms of; 1.1 objectives; 1.2 content; and 1.3 assessment; 2. Determine the evaluation of the characteristic of the Interactive Learner's Packet in terms of; 2.1 accessibility; 2.2 user-friendly; 2.3 interactivity; and 2.4 structure? 3. Determine the significant difference in evaluating the developed Interactive Learner's Packet components; 4. Determine the significant difference in evaluating the character of the developed Interactive Learners' Packet. The study employed a descriptive research method. The total population sampling technique was used to identify the 72 public and private secondary school teachers as the respondents of this study. Adapted Survey Questionnaire was used as the research instrument to gather the information concerning the statement of the problem. The evaluation level of the Social Science and ICT Teachers on the Components of Interactive Learners? Packet gathered an overall mean of 3.89 for objectives, 3.77 for the content from the Social Science Teachers and 3.59 and 3.45 from the ICT Teachers which were interpreted both as Extremely Agree, respectively. However, it is noticeable that the third component - assessment resulted to Social Science teachers giving a higher rating mean of 3.78 with an interpretation of ?extremely agree? compared to 3.34 which interpreted as ?agree? from the ICT teachers. The overall weighted mean on the three characteristics? user friendly, interactivity and structure got a highest mean of 3.84, 3.94 and 3.80 which interpreted as ?extremely agree? from the Social Science Teachers while an overall mean of 3.79, 3.58 and 3.72 was from the ICT teachers which also interpret as ?extremely agree?. On the other hand, on the first characteristics as to accessibility, the overall weighted mean of 3.68 was from the Social Science Teachers with an interpretation of ?extremely agree? while an overall mean of 3.39 from the ICT teachers was interpreted as ?agree?. Results showed that there is significant difference on the level of evaluation between Social Science teachers and ICT teachers from both public and private Senior High Schools in the characteristics and components of the developed Learner?s Packet in terms of its objectives, content, assessment, accessibility, and interactivity. The results also showed that the evaluation of the teachers with the components? user friendliness and structure of the learner?s packet have no significant difference. Therefore, it is concluded that the developed interactive learner?s packet is very accessible, the content is suitable, and it?s very interactive to the senior high school learners and teachers, and a budget-friendly learning material in today?s new normal set-up, and it can be considered as a supplementary learning material in teaching Understanding Culture, Society and Politics.

High School Students’ Motivation and Help-Seeking Strategies in English Language Learning

<em>Motivation and help-seeking as self-regulated learning strategies are essential for the students to increase academic persistence, cope with academic challenges, and take an active role in their learning process. To date, self-regulated learning strategy and motivation in learning have been extensively studied. However, little attention and effort have been made to investigate the correlation between a motivation variable and help-seeking strategy at the Indonesian high school level. To fill the gap in the previous research, this study aimed to investigate high school students’ motivation in learning English and the extent to which it correlated with their help-seeking strategy. To reach the aforementioned aim, a correlational-method design was applied in this research. The researchers gathered the data using two types of data collection techniques, namely a close-ended questionnaire and semi-structured interview to provide triangulation. Ninety-eight students of a private senior high school in Cirebon, Indonesia were involved in this study. The findings revealed that those high school students tended to be instrumentally motivated in learning English. Furthermore, they were also reported to have positive attitudes and good initiatives to engage in help-seeking strategies whenever it was necessary. From the statistical calculation utilizing SPSS version 25, it was found that motivation and help-seeking strategy had a strong positive correlation (r=.645), which inferred that as the students had a high level of motivation; they were more inclined to engage in help-seeking strategies.</em>

Embracing Students’ Self Confidence: Bringing Instagram Into English Speaking Classroom, Why Not?

As one of the four English skills that has to be mastered, English learners still see that speaking mastery is challenging. Many of them are difficult to speak, although their writing, reading, and listening skills are good. This research presents a classroom action research of using Instagram in English speaking classroom with students in a private senior high school in Surakarta. The purpose of this research is to propose the use of Instagram as a social media to teach speaking as well as to find out the students' attitude towards the use of Instagram in enhancing their speaking skills. The study revealed that Instagram used in English speaking classroom brings effective meaning for them in learning English. Instagram also brings a positive attitude to students so that they can learn to speak English more easily.

Optimization of the Application of Inclusive Teaching Style in Improving Learning Outcomes Forehand Push Table Tennis Game in Class XI IPA 1 Private Senior Highschool PAB Saentis

This study aims to find out how to improve learning outcomes of Forehand Push table tennis game through inclusive teaching style in class XI IPA 1 Private Senior Highschool PAB SAENTIS. The object of this research is class XI students with 25 students who will be given action in the form of inclusive teaching style on Forehand Push learning outcomes. In the first cycle, it could be seen that the students' initial ability to perform the Forehand Push technique was still low. Of the 25 students there are 15 people (60%) who have achieved mastery learning, while 10 people (40%) have not achieved mastery learning. With the average value of student learning outcomes is 76.3. Meanwhile, in the second cycle, it can be seen that the students' ability to perform classical learning outcomes tests has increased. Of the 25 students there are 20 (80%) who have achieved mastery learning, while 5 people (20%) have not achieved mastery learning. With the average value of student learning outcomes is 80.7, so there is a 25% increase in learning outcomes from cycle I to cycle II. It can be concluded that learning through inclusive teaching style can improve forehand push learning outcomes in class XI IPA 1 Private Senior Highschool PAB SAENTIS.

PEMODELAN DAN OPTIMASI PENGUATAN KUALITAS LAYANAN GURU

IMPROVING ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR (OCB) THROUGH STRENGTHENING EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND TEACHER JOB SATISFACTIONService quality is a management resource that is very important to be considered in order to achieve the goals of national education. However, the preliminary survey results indicated that the quality of teacher services were still needed to be improved. The aim of this study was to find efforts to improve teacher service quality (Y) just like the research theme which was through a study of the influencing power between the independent variables of Job Satisfaction (X1) and Work Motivation (X2) and Proffessional Commitment (X3) as an intermediary variable (intervening). . This research was conducted at 12 private senior high schools in Cibadak commissariat, Sukabumi regency, where the total research object was 109 permanent teachers. The implemented research approach was the POP-SDM approaching that was modeling and optimization of management resources strengthening. POP-SDM was to combine the qualitative researches inorder to find out the constellation of influencies among the variables, the statistical mathematical models to improve the quality of teacher services and the determination of research hypotheses and quantitative research to prove the research hypothesis generated in the qualitative research. The research method used was a path analysis to determine the influence among the variables studied and Sitorem analysis for indicator analysis. The results of the study resulted in a service quality improvement model where the mathematical model was Ŷ = 0.217X1 + 0.451X2 + 0.40X3 + 0.647 wheather X1 was the teacher job satisfaction, X2 was the teacher work motivation and X3 was professional commitment. While the optimal solution found out that there were 3 indicators which already satisfied so that they were only needed to be maintained or developed. They were consists of achievement, seriousness in carrying out their duties, and emotional bonding to the profession. Beside that, there were 22 indicators that were still weak so that they were needed to be improved where the improvement order of priority were as follows: responsibility, progression, organizational procedures, working conditions, recognition, status, rewards, benefits, loyalty, opportunities, dedication, working atmosphere, type of work, supervision, coworker support, salary, promotion opportunities, responsiveness, assurance, reliability, empathy and direct evidence.

Development of Assessment Instruments Based on Higher order Thinking Skill (HOTS) to Measure Critical Thinking Students of Class XI IPS Private Senior High School of Sultan Iskandar Muda Medan TP 2020/2021

The development of a HOTS-based assessment instrument in the form of a test is prepared based on an analysis of the needs of students and teachers in economics subjects for the 2020/2021 academic year in the 2013 curriculum student critical. This research is a development research (R and D) with a Borg and Gall development model that has been adapted to research needs Based on the results of the study, it shows that the results of the evaluation expert validation for multiple choice questions of 88% are in the very good category, for essay questions 87% are in the very good category, the results of material expert validation are 84% in the very good category, the results of response validation the teacher is 88% very good and the student response validation is 91% in the very good category. For the results of the analysis of the validity of multiple-choice questions and descriptions, they are in the valid and reliable category, have a level of difficulty in the medium category and have different power of questions, namely 8 questions in the very good category, 8 questions in the good category and 9 questions in the sufficient category. The results of the analysis of students' HOTS questions have an average of 66% in the sufficient category, and the results of the students' critical thinking questionnaire have an average of 68.8% are in the critical enough category. This shows that the HOTS-based assessment instrument is effective in measuring students' critical thinking skills seen from the results of the HOTS-based assessment instrument analysis which is directly proportional to the results of students' critical thinking questionnaires.

Android-Based Learning Media Design with Contextual Learning to Develop Problem-Solving Skills

This study objective is to show that android-based learning media design with contextual learning is valid, practical, and effective in developing mathematical problem solving skills. The research method used is Research and Devolopment. It’s design in this study is 4-D development model consisting of 4 development stages: define, design, develop, and desseminate. The subjects of this study consisted of development subjects (validators) and field trial subjects (a private senior high school in Pontianak, Indonesia). Data collection tools used were validation sheets, questionnaires and mathematical problem solving skill tests. The data analysis technique used descriptive statistics. This study showed that android-based media with contextual learning content was valid, practical and effective in developing mathematical problem-solving skills. In addition, Android-based learning media with contextual learning content could be used as an alternative in learning during Covid 19.

OVERCROWDED CLASSROOMS IN THE ANALYSIS OF TEACHER-STUDENTS INTERACTION

The study was carried out to find out the most serious problems faced by the teachers-student interaction in overcrowded classes The aims in this study is to investigate the effect of teacher-students interaction in overcrowded classroom. This study focuses particularly on the problems that are being faced by both teachers and students while teaching-learning process. The method of this research work is qualitative method. The data were gathered through self-completion questionnaires and interview administered to 33 student and four teachers for questionnaire. Questionnaire for teacher is to understand more fully how teachers think about overcrowded classrooms as well as about classroom interaction, also to gain through overview about what the relationship between crowded classes and teacher-student interaction, and for student is to understand more fully whether overcrowded classes have an effect on teacher-student interaction, a short questionnaire was designed to gather opinion. In order to support the questionnaire, the students and the teacher were interviewed through a sequence of questions related to the causes of classroom interaction and overcrowded classroom to find out the effect of teacher-student interaction in overcrowded classroom. The study involved three students based on the high, middle and low value in English classroom and two teachers in the interview at a private senior high school in Bandung. The results of this study showed the main problems being faced in overcrowded classes including noise making, lack of individual attention and classroom arrangement are issues that influence interaction in the class. Based on the result we can saw that Teacher-Student Interaction is affected by the number of Student.

Face Threatening Acts in Pre-Service Teachers and Students: A Case Study in EFL Classroom

Maintaining relationship between teachers and students is one of the key issues in Education. This issue is important as the relationship affects the process as well as the results of students’ learning. It is also significant how the teachers interact with the students in the classroom. In this study we would like to see whether teachers’ attitude affects students’ perception on such a behavior. This was seen through the language that teachers use in the classroom. Some teachers tend to use face threatening acts (FTA), which cause the students feel uncomfortable, tense, and anxious (Pomerantz 1984, Beebe & Cummings 1985, Chen, 2006). As a result, the students’ learning outcomes might be affected. In some cultures, doing such a thing would be considered impolite. The study was conducted in one of the private senior high schools in Jakarta with a sample of two teachers and 50 students of Grades 10 & 11 from two EFL classrooms. The study used qualitative and quantitative approach with descriptive statistics to analyze the findings. A list of questionnaires was used along with an interview with the two teachers to clarify the results. The discussion covered several aspects regarding the existence of FTA in EFL classrooms: the kinds of threatening acts used, the patterns of the threatening acts, the factors of using threatening acts, and the students’ responses of threatening acts. The study was expected to give insights for the pre-service teachers in EFL classroom. 
 

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF QUESTION-ANSWER RELATIONSHIP AND ANTICIPATION-REACTION GUIDE STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING READING HORTATORY EXPOSITION TEXTS TO STUDENTS WITH HIGH AND LOW CRITICAL THINKING

This study investigates the effectiveness of Question-Answer Relationship and Anticipation-Reaction Guide strategies for enhancing students’ reading comprehension to students with high and low critical thinking. This study is quantitative research by using experimental factorial design 2x2. The participants of this study were 26 students of XI-IPS1 as the first experimental group and 25 students of XI-IPS 2 as the second experimental group at the Islamic Private Senior High School Sultan Agung 3 Semarang. The findings of this study show that (1) Question-Answer Relationship strategy has better effect for students with high and low critical thinking (2) Question-Answer Relationship and Anticipation-Reaction Guide strategies are equal treated to students with high critical thinking (3) Question-Answer Relationship strategy has better effect to students with low critical thinking (4) the students with high and low critical thinking improve equally treated by Question-Answer Relationship strategy (5) the students with high critical thinking improve better treated by Anticipation-Reaction Guide strategy (6) there is an interaction among teaching strategies, reading comprehension, and their critical thinking. To sum up, there is an interaction among teaching strategies, reading comprehension, and students’ critical thinking in teaching reading hortatory exposition texts to students with high and low critical thinking. Keywords: Anticipation-Reaction Guide, High Critical Thinking, Low Critical Thinking, Question-Answer Relationship, Teaching Reading.

DIALOGIC FEEDBACK TO PROMOTE DEEP LEARNING FOR EFL SPEAKING LEARNERS IN ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT: STUDENTS’VOICES

English as a foreign language (EFL) students, regardless of their ability to speaking English, encounter significant speaking challenges. They lack motivation and confidence to speak English in online learning environment, which is particularly during a global pandemic. Therefore, the present study aims to analyse the implementation of dialogic feedback in online learning for the students speaking skills and investigate the students’responses to the implementation of dialogic feedback in teaching speaking. The respondents of this study were tenth-grade students attending a private senior high school in Bangka Belitung. This study employed a qualitative approach with a case study design. Interviews and observation were employed as instruments. The findings of this study indicated that the majority of students were engaged in online speaking classes toward implementing dialogic feedback; they were able to clarify their confusions from the teacher's feedback during presentations and they were able to improve their errors in some aspects of speaking skills, such as pronunciation and intonation when telling a story. Most students in an online class showed positive attitude toward dialogic feedback. They revealed that dialogic feedback is necessary for learners to improve their speaking abilities and enabled them to gain new knowledge through communication and sharing of new vocabulary. However, a few of the students stated technical issues and poor internet connection on the internet could be impediments during the class session. Keywords: Dialogic feedback, speaking skills, students’ perception.

Kontribusi Pengalaman Kerja dan Motivasi Kerja terhadap Profesionalisme Guru Pembimbing di SMA Se-Kabupaten Tabanan

THE CONTRIBUTION OF WORK EXPERIENCE AND WORK MOTIVATION TO THE PROFESSIONALISM OF SUPERVISING TEACHERS IN HIGH SCHOOLS IN TABANAN REGENCY. This study focused on the study of the contribution of work experience and work motivation to the professionalism of supervising teachers in Senior High Schools in Tabanan Regency. This study used an ex post facto design involving 39 respondents from 14 Public and Private Senior High Schools in Tabanan Regency. Data were obtained through documentation method and questionnaires which were analyzed by regression analysis. The results showed that there was a significant contribution between work experience and the professionalism of the supervisor, and there was a significant contribution between work motivation and the professionalism of the supervisors.

Increasing Teacher`s Organizational Commitment Through Strengthening Teamwork, Situational Leadership and Self-Efficacy

Teachers’ commitment towards organization is important to be improved. Strengthening teamworks, good situational leadership by the principal and strong self-efficacy can be used as an effort to improve teachers’ commitment towards their organization. This study is aimed to determine the commitment of private Senior High School teachers in Sukabumi towards their organization through the study of relationship strength between research variable, teamworks, Principal’s situational leadership and self-efficacy. The research used correlational analysis and quantitative method while data collection techniques are collected through questionnaires. The population used in this research are 240 private permanent school teachers in Sukabumi. The sample of the research are 150 teachers calculated by Taro Yamane formula with a significance level of 0,05.Based on the results analysis, there is positive and significant relationship between Teamworks and Teachers’ commitment towards organization with the correlational coefficient ry.1 = 0,0346. There is positive and significant relationship between Principal’s situational leadership and teacher’s commitment towards organization with correlational coefficient ry.2 = 0,465 and there is positive and significant self-efficacy and teachers’ commitment towards organization with correlational coefficient ry.3 = 0,319. The conclusion based on STOREM analysis shows that all teamworks indicators influence teachers’ commitment towards their organization. It means, the stronger the teamworks, the higher commitment teachers have to their organization. All indicators of Principal’s situational leadership influence teachers’ commitment towards their organizations. It means, the stronger Principal’s situational leadership, the higher commitment teachers have to the organization. All indicators of self-efficacy influence teacher’s commitment towards organizations. It means, the stronger self-efficacy; the higher commitment teachers have to the organization.

The Use of The Quizizz Application in The Scientific Literacy Assessment of High School Students On Global Warming Material

This research aims to describe the feasibility of the scientific literacy assessment instrument, describe the high school students’ scientific literacy profile on global warming material, and examine scientific literacy instruments' practicality. The research data was collected using scientific literacy instruments with 16 multiple choice and four essays and student response questionnaires. This research refers to the ADDIE model. The analysis data of this instrument's feasibility is viewed from five criteria: the logical and empirical validity of the items, reliability, difficulty level, and distinguishing power. Student response questionnaires analyzed using quantitative descriptive methods. The sampling technique selected randomly. This study's limited trial subjects were 24 physics education freshmen at one of the state university in Surabaya city to determine the feasibility of the scientific literacy assessment instrument. Thirty-three students of Class XI MIPA 3 at one of the private senior high schools in Krian is a field trial. The results showed that the scientific literacy assessment instrument was feasible, with 10 of the 20 items developed. The average achievement of students' scientific literacy as a whole was 38. While the students’ ability in each aspect, namely explaining scientific phenomena, designing and evaluating scientific investigations, and interpreting scientific data and evidence, is in a very low category, less than 50%. The practicality of the instrument developed with a value range of 62%-74% in a good category. This research can be used as an evaluation material in learning activities to be more effective and optimal in improving scientific literacy skills.

DEALING WITH SPEAKING ANXIETY; A CASE STUDY OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SIDANG AKADEMI AT A SCHOOL IN CENTRAL JAVA

Speaking skill becomes a very important issue in second language acquisition. Among the four English skills being developed, speaking is crucial for students. Speaking anxiety is one of the burdens experienced by the students so that the exploration of the willingness to communicate is needed to maintain the problem. Moreover, in the Indonesian context, English is still a second/ foreign language so that when the student is required to speak in public using English the problem will be double. This research discussed the implementation of Sidang Akademi (Academic Preliminary Meeting) in a private Senior High School in Central Java as an obligatory activity for the students. This research employs a qualitative study specifically a case study. The result of the study presents that the implementation of the activity causes the student to experience speaking anxiety caused by many factors. There are also some ways in managing speaking performance conducted by the student in the implementation of the activity.