The Effectiveness of Behavior Counseling Techniques to Reduce Truancy Behavior in MAN Students

Truancy behavior is an individual who does not enter or leave school for various reasons without the knowledge and permission of the school. Behavior group counseling is a type of counseling that uses group dynamics to help a person change behavior that is not in accordance with the desired goals. The purpose of this study is to reduce student truancy behavior.
The design form used in this study is one group pretest-posttest design with one treatment. Which is further analyzed using a t-test. This study amounted to 29 populations with a sample of 8 students in MAN 3 Jombang. The instrument used in this study is using a research questionnaire with a Likert scale measurement scale.
The researcher made calculations with a normality test with a sig value of > 0.05. Then the researcher recalculated with a homogeneity test with a result of 0.331. From the results of homogeneity, it can be said that the results are homogeneous. After that, the researcher used a paired sample T-test with a 2-tailed sig of 0.00. then it can be concluded that Ho was rejected and Ha was accepted. This means that group counseling of behavior techniques can reduce student truancy behavior.