The Relationship between Teacher InterpersonalA.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEACHER INTERPERSONAL
BEHAVIOR AND STUDENT ATTITUDE TOWARD SCIENCE
LEARNING IN PRIMARY SCHOOL: INDONESIAN CASE STUDY
Mustafa Kamal Nasution.
ABSTRACT
This study proposes to assess the relationship between student perceptions on teacher interpersonal behavior and student attitude toward Science in Indonesian Primary This research engaged 143 students from SDN 47 Jambi.
Indonesia.
To gather the data, two types of questionnaires were used.
Test of Science Related Attitude (TOSRA) and the Indonesian version of the Questionnaire Teacher Interpersonal (QTI).
SPSS
program were applied to process the data statistically.
The result shows that the questionnaires are relatively reliable for Indonesian primary students.
Acceptability of Cronbach alpha coefficient was found in both actual and preferred situation.
The findings also reveal that from the studentsAo view, their teachers have relatively good Leadership and Understanding in the classroom, less Uncertainty.
Dissatisfaction and Admonishment toward students.
However, the students perceive to some extent unfavorable perceptions on their Freedom and teacher Strictness.
Another analysis describes that there are significant differences between actual and ideal perceptions on the whole scale of QTI except on Uncertainty.
Furthermore, between male and female perceptions, this study finds that there are significant differences on Helping, and Strictness.
Lastly, the multiple correlation analysis explaines that there is a correlation between the scale of QTI and Enjoyment toward science, in which Uncertainty and Admonishment scales are significantly negative affect studentsAo enjoyment in science classroom.
Keywords: relationship, interpersonal behavior, primary students.
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N | Dosen STKIP Bina Bangsa Meulaboh behavior in education has been an RATIONALE How international issue and again, revealed learning subjects has always been a the importance of this area in education internationally (ICIRE, 2.
question and interest for educators and For emphasizing on student performance can be found in enormous research areas such as learning environment research, teaching of specific subjects, and school and teacher effectiveness research.
this particular study, we will gauge how teacher behavior is related to student attitude of Science in Indonesia.
on teacher interpersonal behavior in many countries around the world such as Brunei (Brok.
Fisher, & Scott, 2.
Singapore (Goh, & Fraser, 1.
Korea Fraser.
Fisher.
Netherlands (Brekelmans.
Wubbels, & Cryton, 1.
and Australia (Evans.
Henderson.
Rawnsley, 1.
, have shown a growing attention.
Lately.
Conference International Interpersonal Relationships in Education in Colorado, (USA) has confirmed that interpersonal 2 | Volume i.
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Despite an increasing number of Indonesian The present study, therefore, attempts to provide a foundation and comparison geographical boundary.
Furthermore, in recent study.
Wahyudi and Treagust research has been implemented since 1960 and became a salient research area in Indonesian education.
However, the behavior, during last four decades displayed an apparent lack of attention The Relationship between Teacher InterpersonalA.
by Indonesian educators or researchers teachersAo The discontinuity of the studies during these To what extent the discrepancies decades suggests that the status of between actual and preferred teachersAo Indonesia has discarded, and that there Is there any connection between Therefore, this study was conducted and studentsAo emphasized on interpersonal behavior of interpersonal behavior and their teachers and their studentsAo attitude attitude toward science? toward science learning process in Indonesian primary school.
METHOD
This research engaged primary students in 4-6 grades science classes in THE AIM OF THE STUDY This study aims to assess the SDN 47 Jambi.
Indonesia.
The sample connection between studentsAo view on teacher interpersonal behavior and their teachers in one school.
The 40-items attitude toward science in Indonesian Indonesian version of the Questionnaire primary school.
In more detail, this was Teacher Interpersonal (QTI) in eight designed to answer questions as follows:
attitudes scales was applied to assess Does studentsAo perceptions of student-teacher reliability for Indonesian primary interpersonal behavior.
Student attitude or enjoyment was measured by eight- How do the students view on their items Test of Science Related Attitude teacher interpersonal behavior? (TOSRA).
The wording of the item in To what extent the discrepancies this attitude scale is such that they can be used well in science classroom.
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N | Dosen STKIP Bina Bangsa Meulaboh Using SPSS program, the data First, 1 reveals some statistics on the QTI for descriptive statistic was used on actual the present sample of science classes.
and preferred of each scale to indicate Due to the result, two units of analysis the QTI reliability.
if it shows more than of the Cronbach alpha reliabilities are 5 the reliability of Cronbach alpha is the actual and the preferred Second, to gauge the actual As predicted, the preferred situation reliability was higher than the behavior.
Paired Sample t-tests was used The table also displays the by comparing between actual and reliability for different QTI scales preferred means and of each scale.
dispersed from 0.
52 to 0.
92 for actual Slightly On the other hand, preferred studentsAo perceptions on their teachersAo situation which is noticeably higher than interpersonal behavior was analyzed by Independent Responsibility Scale which only shows comparison between actual mean of 47 (<0.
Overall, it can be inferred both sexes in every scale.
Last, the that the Indonesian version of QTI relationship between studentsAo view on questionnaire is relatively reliable to be teacher interpersonal behavior and their used for primary students in Indonesian attitude toward science was analyzed by Using descriptive statistic.
Table Sample t-test using Simple Correlations .
and Linear Regression Analysis ().
Students This finding is consistent with others which revealed that the QTI has been successfully translated and used in FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION a number of countries, such as Indonesia (Margianti, 2.
Brunei (Brok.
Fisher.
The Indonesian QTI & Scott, 2005.
Khine, 2.
Thailand (Wei & Onsawad, 2.
Singapore (Goh and Fraser, 1.
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Fisher, and Koul, 2.
Korea (Lee et Students also view that that their , 2.
Turkey (Telli et al.
, 2.
teachers are Helpful .
66A0.
and The Netherlands .
Brekelmans et al.
express less Dissatisfaction .
45A0.
Brok et al.
, 2.
Cyprus Similarly, the teachers show positive (Kyriakides, 2.
Australia (Brok, understanding .
19A0.
and being Fisher, & Scott, 2.
, and the USA less admonishing .
66A0.
to the (Wubbels and Levy, 1991,1.
students during the class room activities.
Finally, the teachers were viewed has Table 1.
Cronbach alpha reliability of QTI scales (Descriptive Statisti.
StudentsAo Perceptions toward Teacher Interpersonal Behavior that the teachers have relatively good responsibility/freedom and less strict to the students.
Therefore it can be inferred Alpha Scale Leadership Helping/Friendly Understanding Students Responsibility/ Freedom Uncertain Dissatisfaction Admonishing Strict In response to the second Preferred research question .
, paired studentsAo point of view.
On entire scales sample t-tests were used to examine the discrepancies between actual and ideal significant differences between actual teacher interpersonal behavior.
Table 2 explains that on actual situation the Due to this result, it can be students agree that their teachers have inferred that the teachers have good displayed good Leadership .
20A0.
Nevertheless.
Uncertainty Actual .
39A0.
QTI,
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interpersonal behavior.
The findings also indicate that.
Another response to the second in the Indonesian context, students research question .
is the agreed that an ideal science teacher discrepancies between male and female should be strong leader, helpful/friendly, studentsAo teacher interpersonal behavior.
Using understanding to students.
On the independent sample t-test.
Table 3 contrary, the ideal teacher should not be explains that male studentsAo perceptions admonishing, dissatisfied, uncertain, and are relatively higher than the female.
This is in accordance with the Nevertheless, it can be clearly seen that research on ideal teachersAo interpersonal there are entirely no significant different between male and female studentsAo Wubbels, 1993.
Fisher.
Waldrip, & In other words, the students Brok, 2.
perceive that their teachers treat both sexes equally during learning process.
These findings suggest that both sexes of Indonesian students prefer more positive interpersonal behavior than was Table 2.
StudentsAo perceptions on the interpersonal behavior (Paired sample t-test.
** A < 0.
* A < 0.
4=poor.
perceived as being actually present.
This 4=fair.
4=good.
5- 4=very is in line with other finding by Wubbels Scale Leadership Helping/Friendly Understanding Students Responsibility/ Freedom Uncertain Dissatisfaction Admonishing Strict Average Item Mean Actual Preferred 6 | Volume i.
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First, simple correlations were Table 3.
Male and female studentsAo perceptions on the actual teacher interpersonal behavior (Independent sample T tes.
applied to calculate each QTI scale and the attitude scales.
Then, a linear Male Leadership Helping/Friendly Understanding Students Responsibility/ Freedom Uncertain Dissatisfaction Admonishing Strict ** A < 0.
* A < 0.
4=poor.
Average Item Standard t value Deviation Female Male Female regression analysis was conducted in 4=fair.
4=good.
5- 4=very order to assess the relative weighting of the TOSRA scales as joint predictor of Note: the values of mean and standard deviation on the last four scales are interpreted reversely The applicable statistics are Average Item Mean Scale informed on Table 4.
All eight simple correlations between QTI scales and their studentsAo Interpersonal Behavior and Student attitude were insignificant and low .
< Attitude The multiple correlation analysis The Relationship Another desirable response of shows that there was no overlap between this study is the capability to measure the QTI scales, with two scales showing relationship between student attitude and teacher interpersonal behavior.
There .
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toward the students.
The relevance was true when the teachers were perceived as CONCLUSION showing low favorable behavior.
It is obvious that teachersAo behavior has Before concluding the findings inconsiderable effect on their studentsAo of this research, it is significant to attitudes toward science.
Generally, a acknowledge that the small-scale sample cooperative and somewhat dominant used in this study only allows some teacher behavior seems to not contribute to a favorable studentsAo attitude where as teacher-student interpersonal relations in oppositional submissive behavior has Indonesian context.
As a result of the the opposite effect.
This is in line with sample, most of the analysis could not previous research by Wubbels and Levy be conducted at the class level and the .
and suggests that if the teachers wish to improve their student sAo attitudes toward science, they should ensure that they reveal the cooperation behaviors indistinct whether the findings can be and reduce the opposition behaviors.
comprehensively accepted in Indonesian Moreover, primary education.
The findings of this study Table 4.
Correlation of QTI scales to students attitude toward Science (Simple regression analysi.
conclude that the Indonesian version of Enjoyment Scale Leadership Helping/Friendly Understanding Students Responsibility/ Freedom Uncertain Dissatisfaction Admonishing Strict Standardized Regression Coefficient () Correlation .
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QTI questionnaire is relatively reliable learning process of the Indonesian to be used for Indonesian primary primary school in the future.
Due studentsAo perceptions, firstly, there are entirely no improvement to make the gap between significant differentce between male and female student perceptions of teacher interpersonal behavior become narrow, interpersonal behavior.
In other words, and if the science teachers wish to the students perceive that the teacher improve their studentsAo attitude, they equally treats the male and female should make sure that they demonstrate the favorable interpersonal behavior and However, secondly, there are significant decrease dissatisfied attitude.
differences between actual and ideal The outcome of this study has teacher interpersonal behavior on the implication for science educators who whole scales of QTI.
Therefore, even interpersonal behavior, it has not been Although accomplished studentsAo ideal wishes toward teacherAos interpersonal behavior.
principally can also be applied to the Finally, the teachersAo behavior has learning process or other educational inconsiderable result on their studentsAo attitudes toward science.
Generally, a cooperative and somewhat dominant teacher behavior seems to not contribute to a favorable studentsAo attitude where as oppositional submissive behavior has the opposite effect.
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