DEVELOPING CHARACTERS ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENT OF SOCIAL CARING ON CIVIC EDUCATION SUBJECT IN STATE UNIVERSITY OF SEMARANG Sunarto, Tutik Wijayanti, Tijan, Eta Yuni Lestari
Universitas Negeri Semarang
Abstract
National education functions to develop skills, strengthen characters, and establish national civilization. One of the government’s efforts in establishing good characters of nation in Indonesia is by mean of education. Huge problems faced by Indonesian nation nowadays is indicated by the degradation of character values which are owned by Indonesian citizens. The Faculty of Social Sciences of Semarang State University has commitment to be able to develop caring character. However, there is no one using instrument of caring character assessment which is standardized based on pre-observation towards the lecturers in The Faculty of Social Sciences. Therefore, it is necessary to develop the instrument of social caring character assessment to investigate to what extent caring character is achieved by college students.
The aim of this research is to get the instrument of caring character assessment which is valid, reliable, and effective in its use. The method used in this research is research and development (R and D) method aimed at developing a product and testing its effectiveness. The procedure in this research consists of ten stages. However, this research only reaches the sixth stage.
The first stage in this research was field study in which whatever problems happening in the field found out. After that, planning was done in which instrument draft which would be validated by experts was designed in this process. Before the product was tried out, it (the instrument of social caring character assessment) would first be validated by experts. The results of experts’ validation would be revised if it was needed. The tryout of the product would be done in small scale, specifically in one class of civic education course. Then, the results of a limited-scale tryout would be analyzed in terms of validity, reliability, and effectiveness.
The results of this research revealed that some problems in creating the instrument of social caring character assessment happened to lecturers. The problems were the lack of obvious assessment indicators; based on indicators released by institution, the lack of lecturers’ ability in arranging non-test assessment instrument, and the absence of assessment module as well as the sample instrument of social caring character assessment. From those problems, the instrument was then developed to be validated by experts. The instrument which was validated by experts was then tried out in class. The results of the tryout analysis were that the instrument is valid, however the level of validity is different. Meanwhile, the instrument reliability based on the analysis using SPSS has high reliability level.
Keywords: development, assessment instrument, social caring character, civic education.
Topic: Teacher of Civic Education and National Bulding
