The school effectiveness is influenced by interaction between external and internal factors. This research aims to examine the mediating effect of school culture between teacher concern innovation and emotional intelligence on school effectiveness. Questionnaires were distributed to 333 teachers of elementary school and analyzed using Structural Equation Models (SEM) with AMOS 18.0 Software. The results show that teacher concern innovation was significantly and positively related to school culture but correlate indirectly on school effectiveness. The positive relations between emotional intelligence and school culture and school effectiveness were also significant. It was found that school culture is able to mediate teacher concern innovation on school effectiveness. The other finding is that emotional intelligence and school culture have direct effect on school effectiveness. These findings suggest that the higher teacher concern on innovation and emotional intelligence promote the positive school culture and effectively improved the school education quality.

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Adolescence is a critical period in a human development stage. One of the most important periods for female teenage is menarche that causes different impact, one of them is psychological impact. Acquired knowledge about menstruation will affect the perception of adolescents about menarche that can also affect the readiness of the girls in facing menarche. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between knowledge about menstruation with the readiness of female teenage in facing menarche. This research was conducted in SDN lubang buaya 01 and 05 on May-June 2015. Data obtained by giving knowledge and readiness questionnaire to 47 respondents in SDN Lubang Buaya 01 and as many as 51 respondents in SDN Lubang Buaya 05. Data were analyzed by using a simple correlation - regression test. The correlation coefficient (rxy) was 0.593 indicates that there is a moderate possitive relationship between Knowledge of Menstruation with the Female Teenage Readiness in Facing Menarche through the regression model Ŷ = 29.831 + 0,649X. It can be conclude that the knowledge has a moderate positive relationship with the female teenage readiness in facing menarche.

Sampai sejauh ini belum tersedia instrumen atau kuesioner untuk mengetahui kebutuhan pendidikan caregivers pasien gagal jantung di Indonesia. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menerjemahkan dan memvalidasi kuesioner versi Bahasa Inggris “Educational Needs of Caregivers Instrument” ke dalam versi Bahasa Indonesia. Proses penerjemahan dan adaptasi dilakukan berdasarkan lima tahapan pedoman penerjemahan dan adaptasi dari World Health Organization. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapat 5 istilah berbeda antara dua budaya: “talk” vs “discuss”, “to know the expected course of the disease process”, “to receive information about how to go about making lifestyle changes”, “to feel as if others have my welfare in mind”, “to have help with finansial concerns”. Enam ahli dalam bidang kardiovaskuler dilibatkan dalam penilaian validasi konten instrumen. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa indeks validasi konten adalah 0.93 untuk relevansi, 0.91 untuk keakuratan, 0.83 untuk kejelasan, dan 0.84 untuk kemudahan dipahami. Pada akhirnya, tercipta kuesioner versi Bahasa Indonesia yang disebut “Kuesioner Kebutuhan Pendidikan Caregivers” dan kuesioner ini dinyatakan valid.