The Effectiveness of Training "Success with (BEST) Effective Learning Focused and Relax" to Improve Self-Regulated Learning in Vocational High School Students

Abstract

Vocational High School (SMK) is one of education that combines academic and vocational education. Vocational subject hours in vocational curriculum has a load of 24 hours a week containing practical activities. In vocational education setting, students are required to work and learn independently and be able to modify the environment to make it more adaptive to accommodate the learning needs of students that are expected to create learning goals and knows how to achieve the learning objectives. Answer this problem, the researchers propose a training named “Success with BEST (Learning Focused and Relax) that use the basic theory and training stages as in reality therapy. This study is a quasi-experimental study with experimental design one group pre-post design. The participants are 11 tenth-grade students in SMKN 8 Surabaya. The data are collected by self-regulated learning scale for high school students. The data were analyzed using non-parametric statistical Wilcoxon signed rank test.

The results of the data analysis of the subject scores on all three measuring tool shows Z value of -2,937 with p = 0,003 (p <0,05) so that it can be concluded that the training Success with Effective Learning Focused and Relax (BEST) can improve self-regulated learning in students X. Effect size class training showed a score of 0,461, which means training Success with Effective Learning Focused and Relax (BEST) provides a strong enough influence on self-regulated learning participants. The researchers suggested that using this training to students in all grade levels.