The main challenge for educational institutions in the middle of the pandemic is fostering students to maintain character strengths in poor conditions. Various difficulties come quickly, such as changes in the online learning system, strict health protocols that apply to the threat of viruses that are scary all the time. Character strengths have a broad impact on life satisfaction, subjective well-being, friendly relationships, and academic success. This study aims to determine the condition of initial student character strengths, especially those who have just entered college, as positive traits used in dealing with changes during the COVID-19 pandemic and contribute to the development of character strengths theory. Peterson-Seligman. The research subjects were 145 students who filled out the 72-item VIA-IS scale online and analyzed using descriptive analysis. The results showed that most early students had high character strengths (68.3%) and responded to change by highlighting their signature strengths of kindness, humor, love, honesty, and gratitude. This research is expected to describe the strength of character as an effort to adapt to change in the middle of the covid-19 pandemic.
Students often interpret science lessons as more difficult lessons compared to other subjects because these subjects require more learning effort and when students lose their desire to follow science subjects, they tend to perceive less ability in the field of science, this can have an impact on unsatisfactory student learning outcomes. Self-efficacy is the strongest predictor of academic achievement, because self-efficacy influences behavioural choices, namely choosing the field to be mastered, determining how much effort is exerted and influencing thought patterns and emotional reactions. Self-efficacy can be grown and learned. Therefore, the teacher's role is very important in increasing student self-efficacy. This study was conducted to find out the description of the self-efficacy of high school students towards science lessons, the factors that cause science high school students to have low self-efficacy, what efforts have been made and what efforts have not been made by teachers to overcome the problems of students who have low science self-efficacy. Based on the results of data collection, a module for teachers was compiled which aims to increase students' self-efficacy towards science lessons.
Youth character strengths becomes the front line for the nation's future generations to face future challenges, including during the Covid-19 pandemic. Previous research has shown character strengths in helping people and the nation cope the vicissitudes of Covid-19 pandemic. This research aims to identify differences virtues and character strengths between students and college students when undergoing learning activities during the Covid-19 pandemic. They study harder than usual since the lockdown rule such as self-study, online class in Zoom meetings, Google Classroom, Google Meet, Skype, and unable to meet teachers and friends. This research is a preliminary study to identify youth character strengths with descriptive analysis of 24 character strengths, assessed by the VIA-IS and VIA-Youth. A purposive sampling was employed to 72 participants consisting of 26 students and 46 college students between 15 and 20 years, who experienced a change from offline learning to online learning due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Data was analysed using independent samples test and descriptive analysis. The results showed that there was a difference of character strengths between students and college students (t= 10,064 p<0,05). College students had a higher score of character strength than students with a slight increase in scores on virtues wisdom and knowledge (3,85), courage (3,86), transcendence (3,86), temperance (3,86), humanity (3,87) and justice (3,85). Students emphasised the highest character strengths such as kindness, spiritual, love, forgiveness, hope, humour than college students emphasised the highest character strengths such as kindness, humour, love, honesty, and gratitude. This research is expected to contribute information and increase knowledge about virtues and character strengths of students and college students undergoing learning activities during the covid-19 pandemic.
Adolesscent with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) tend to be ostracized and bullied in school because they have fewer social skills. Though social skills can be improved, even though ASD teens will have certain challenges. Therefore the role of parents is very important in improving their social skills. This research was conducted to see how the description of social skills possessed by ASD adolescents, viewed from an internal process consisting of three aspects namely emotional awareness and understanding, a theory of mind, and problem-solving and how the role of parents in training social skills in them. Participants in this study were two mothers from mild ASD adolescents. Methods of data collection through interviews, open questionnaires, and four measuring instruments (Karolinska Directed Emotional Face test, Faux Pas Stories Test, Problem Solving Questionnaire, and Recognizing and Responding to a Problem Situation Assessment). The results of this study indicate that the role of parents in practicing social skills in ASD adolescents has not shown optimal results, as evidenced by the lack of social skills possessed by ASD adolescents and the social problems they face in school.
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