Effectiveness of Reality Counseling to Increase the Academic Responsibility of Madrasah Aliyah Students,

Academic responsibility is an obligation that students must have in
carrying out their duties, namely learning by accepting all the consequences with
full awareness and willingness. The low level of academic responsibility
experienced by students is shown by the fact that there are still many who do not
wear the uniform attributes that have been determined, come late to school, and do
not attend lessons without any explanation, even some students admit that they
only study when they have assignments and before exams and cheat when they
do. exam. The aim of this research is to determine the effectiveness of reality
counseling to increase the academic responsibility of Madrasah Aliyah students
This research is a type of quasi-experimental research with the research
design used is nonequivalent control group design. Research subjects were
selected using purposive sampling. The sample used was 12 students and then
divided into an experimental group and a control group of 6 students each. The
data collection instrument in this research was an academic responsibility scale
consisting of 47 question items whose validity was tested on 35 respondents.
From the results of the validity test, it was determined that if the value of rcount >
rtable, then 31 items were declared valid with rtable = 0.334. The reliability
calculation result is 0.889, greater than 0.60 (0.889 > 0.60), meaning that the
academic responsibility scale can be used to collect the data needed in this
research.
The results of the research show that the implementation of reality counseling is
effective in increasing the academic responsibility of Madrasah Aliyah students.
This is proven by the t-test calculation, the calculated t value is greater than the t
table, 4.750 > 2.281 (α = 0.05). Then it is confirmed by a sig (2-tailed) value of
0.001 which is greater than 0.05 (0.001 < 0.05) meaning that there is a significant
(real) difference between the posttest results of the experimental group and the
control group.