SCORING INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT OF CHARACTER EDUCATION BASED ON LOCAL CULTURE FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

This study aims to produce instruments that meet the requirements to measure the characters consisting of caring, polite, honest, disciplined attitude for fifth-grade students of elementary schools in Yogyakarta. The approach used in this research is Research and Development with the Plomp model combined with the steps of developing the Djemari Mardapi instrument. Instrument of character education assessment has been declared valid and reliable. The content validity was tested through experts and Aiken's index was obtained for each item ≥ 0.60 so that the validity coefficient was accepted and considered to be reasonable and it could be said that the instrument was valid in content. The construct validity was carried out by exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The results of the exploratory factor analysis showed the KMO value of 0.926 with Sig Bartlett’s Test of 0.000. Confirmatory factor analysis shows the Chi-Square value of 0.024; RMSEA = 0.020; GFI = 0.98; SRMR = 0.021; AGFI = 0.97; CFI = 0.99; and RFI = 0.97. Cronbach’s Alpha reliability estimates are 0.869. The results show that: 1) the instrument can be used because it has been substantially fulfilled, construction and language aspects based on the results of the Aiken's V validity test and 2) the results of the validity testing in confirmatory factor analysis show that all items in the local culture-based character education assessment instrument can be used to assess the character of fifth-grade elementary school students in Yogyakarta.