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Guidance and counseling in elementary schools are intended to help students develop various potentials within themselves so that they are able to have good adjustments to assignments and learning activities, so as to achieve high academic achievement. Tutoring for school students one of which is oriented to develop student learning motivation. High learning motivation encourages students to achieve optimal learning achievement. This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of the use of group guidance to increase student motivation in elementary schools. This study uses pre-experimental study with one-group pre-test-posttest design. The research subjects were elementary school students with a sample of 40 students. The research data was collected through a learning motivation questionnaire. Data analysis was carried out descriptively and hypothesis testing through paired sample t-test. The results of descriptive data analysis showed that students learning motivation increased from before participating in group guidance learning which was in the medium category to high after participating in group guidance learning. These results are also supported by the results of the t-test analysis which shows that there are significant differences in learning motivation between before and after following group guidance. This shows that tutoring with group guidance techniques is effective in increasing the learning motivation of elementary school students. The implication of this results research to elementary school guidance and counseling program were discussed.

Quality education is education that is able to carry out the process of maturation of student quality developed by liberating students from ignorance, incompetence, helplessness, untruth, dishonesty, and from poor morals and faith. This study aims to analyze the quality of education in Buleleng Regency with a meta-analysis approach. The subjects of this study are researchers and research reports, data analysis begins with categorizing each research in accordance with its research paradigm and the central issues raised, and then the results of all studies are compared according to their categories. The results showed that student learning outcomes are strongly influenced by the quality of teachers or teaching staff. And the quality of teaching can be done by developing innovative learning models. If educators are able to improve performance related to improving classroom management and the learning process by participating in training on various innovative learning, then the quality of education and the quality of graduates will be able to compete in the global era

Education is a pivotal pillar in modern society, and technology has brought about major changes in how students learn. Online learning is becoming an increasingly popular form of education, especially since the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic broke out. However, the challenge of maintaining student engagement and motivation in online learning environments remains a concern for many educators. This is where the concept of gamification erupts as an innovative solution to this problem. This study aimed to examine the effect of case and project-based gamification models on student engagement and academic achievement in online learning in tertiary institutions. Quasi-experimental post-test only non-equivalent control group design was chosen as the method of this research. The subjects of this study were 117 students from Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha. The instrument used to measure student engagement was a questionnaire developed by researchers with reference to the online student engagement (OSE) indicator; meanwhile, an objective test was to assess student academic achievement. The data were analyzed using a one-way multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) technique. The study results show significant differences in student engagement and academic achievement between groups of students taught using case and project-based gamification models and direct e-learning models. Case and project-based gamification models used in online learning were effective in increasing student engagement and student academic achievement.

Online learning is a growing trend in education during the corona virus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The purpose of this study is to ascertain the difficulties that online majors in non-English languages have when attempting to acquire English. The subject of this study involved using the questionnaire method for as many as 412 students and interviewing 15 students with a total of 17 questions. The results of this study indicate that there are several challenges faced by students during online learning; i) less familiarity with online learning as shown by 31% of students agreeing that online learning is a new learning method, ii) psychologically 30% of students choose strongly agree that they have limited opportunities to interact directly and freely with lecturers as well as with students, iii) limited facilities and infrastructure as much as 28% agree that the budget is limited to get quota or internet credit, and iv) limited internet access as many as 35% of students do not have good internet coverage to take online lectures. The findings of this study should be a reference for English lecturers to continue learning to innovate in providing online English learning by considering the existing challenges.

This article reports the experience of implementing the action research to apply the Socratic dialogue method through lesson study in the lecture of Educational Profession to improve critical thinking skills of the university students. The subject of this action research is 36 students (22 women and 14 men) in grade VI class B, Department Guidance and Counseling (BK), Faculty of Education, Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha (Undiksha) on academic years 2016/2017. This action research conducted in cycles (reported in three cycles) which is integrated into the activities of lesson study. In every cycle consisted of a plan, action, observation/evaluation and reflection phase. Critical thinking skills are assessed through observation activities in group discussion activities and classes, as well as through student response in solving essay test (on cases analysis), which assessed by a rubric assessment of students critical thinking skills at each end of the course. The results showed that the mean of the critical thinking skills of students at the end of the first cycle is 50 (low), then at the end of the second cycle increased to 65 (average) and at the end of the third cycle increased again to 89 (high). Research also shows that the lesson learned were founded through collaborating and careful observation of the course observer with researchers in identifying strengths and constraints and to produce efforts to improve the implementation of the course to improve the quality of learning.