Classroom Climate Effectiveness in State Vocational High Schools in Padang City

Efektivitas Iklim Kelas di Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan Negeri di Kota Padang

Abstract

Education plays an important role in creating quality human resources. To create quality human resources, they must have good learning outcomes and good learning outcomes are influenced by one of them by the classroom climate.  Therefore, the problem that will be studied in this study is "How effective is the classroom climate seen in terms of 1) student cohesiveness, 2) student activity, 3) timeliness of assignment collection, 4) difficulty in students understanding learning, 5) democracy in the classroom, 6) student discipline, 7) completeness of learning resources, 8) comfort of the learning process in State Vocational High Schools in Padang City?". The type of research used is quantitative descriptive with a population of all students of State Vocational Schools in Padang City totaling 14,159 people, with a sample of 108 people. The size of the sample was determined using the Slovin formula and taken using the proportional stratified random sampling technique. The research instrument used was a questionnaire with a Likert Scale model about class climate which amounted to 45 items. Before the questionnaire is used, its validity and reliability have been tested. From the results of the data processing, it was obtained that the effectiveness of the classroom climate in public vocational high schools in Padang City in the aspects of 1) cohesiveness with an average score of 4.40 is in the effective category, 2) involvement with an average score of 4.25 is in the effective category, 3) difficulty with an average score of 3.77 is in the effective category, 4) speed with an average score of 4.06 is in the effective category,  5) Democracy with an average score of 4.25 is in the effective category, 6) Clarity of rules with an average score of 4.34 is in the effective category, 7) Completeness of resources with an average score of 4.22 is in the effective category, 8) Comfort of the physical environment with an average score of 4.12 is in the effective category. Based on these results, the author suggests that the Effectiveness of Classroom Climate in State Vocational High Schools in Padang City be maintained and needs to be improved again so as to increase the effectiveness of the classroom climate by students which is very effective.