Pengaruh Pendidikan Kewirausahaan terhadap Niat Berwirausaha Siswa Smk Negeri 1 Pedan Tahun 2013

The purposes of this study are to figure out: 1) the difference student's entrepreneurial intention between class with entrepreneurship practice (experimental class) and class without entrepreneurship practice (control class), 2) the difference student's entrepreneurial intention before and after the instructional practices of entrepreneurship and 3) the impact of entrepreneurship education on student's entrepreneurial intention based on Theory of Planned Behavior.This research used quantitative approach with quasi-experimental methods. The research populations consisted of all the student of grade XI of SMK Negeri 1 Pedan academic year 2012/2013. The research sample were all the student of grade XI of Accounting, which taken by cluster random sampling. Questionnaire and documentation used to collect the data. Data analysis techniques were t-test and path analysis.The results of this study are as follows: 1) there is a significant difference between students' entrepreneurial intention the experimental class and control class, 2) there is a significant difference in student's entrepreneurial intention before and after the instructional practices of entrepreneurship, 3) entrepreneurship education significantly influence the student's entrepreneurial intention based on the Theory of Planned Behavior, 4) directly, components of the Theory of Planned Behavior give effect to the students' entrepreneurial intention by 53%, and 5) the overall effective contribution of the model is 79.7%, that result is the impact of entrepreneurship education components based on the Theory of Planned Behavior on students' entrepreneurial intention directly and indirectly

Pengembangan Buku Panduan Praktik Laboratorium Bank Mini dalam Rangka Meningkatkan Keterampilan Pencatatan Transaksi Keuangan pada Program Keahlian Akuntansi

The objective of this research is to develop a valid and effective guidance book for practice to be applied at Mini Bank laboratory of the Accounting Expertise Program of State Senior Vocational High School 1 of Surakarta as to improve the skills of financial transaction recording.This research used the research and development (R&D) method claimed by Borg and Gall. It consisted of eight phases of development, namely: (1) research and information collecting, (2) planning, (3) development of preliminary form of product, (4) preliminary field testing, (5) main product revision, (6) main field testing, (7) operational product revision, and (8) operational field testing. The validation of product was done through internal and external ones. The former was done to the components of developed book through peer review which involved a material expert, a media expert, two practitioners, namely the teachers who develop the mini bank of the school. Meanwhile, the latter was done by testing the feasibility of the developed book which involved the students in Grade X and Grade XI of the Accounting Expertise Program of the school. The research methods used in the testing implementation was the descriptive qualitative and quantitative one.The results of research show that: (1) the developed guidance book for practice of mini bank laboratory is valid and feasible to be used according to the result of validations by experts and that of testing by students; (2) the developed guidance book for practice of mini bank laboratory is proven to be effective to be applied as a reference for practical learning activities so that it can improve the skills of financial transaction recording of the students of the school. Thus, a conclusion is drawn that the developed guidance book for practice of mini bank laboratory is valid and effective to improve scores in the skills of financial transaction recording of the students in Grade X and XI of the Accounting Expertise Program of State Vocational High School 1 of Surakarta

Pengaruh Pembelajaran Akuntansi Dengan Metode Pembelajaran Kooperatif Tipe Team Accelerated Instruction (Tai) Terhadap Prestasi Belajar Ditinjau Dari Aktivitas Belajar Siswa Kelas XI SMA N 1 Kartasura Tahun Ajaran 2012/2013

The purposes of this research are to determine: (1) effect of the use Team Accelerated Instruction (TAI) learning type toward accounting learning achievement, (2) effect of student learning activities toward accounting learning achievement, (3) effect interaction Team Accelerated Instruction (TAI) learning type with student learning activities toward accounting learning achievement.This research includes quasi experimental research. The population is class XI student of Kartasura senior secondary school on academic year 2012/2013. The study uses simple random sampling. Data collection techniques are method of documentation, test and questionnaires. Test of hypotheses show: (1) the use of learning methods affect the learning achievement of accounting, (2) students learning activities affect the learning achievement of accounting, (3) interaction learning methods with student learning activities affect the learning achievement of accounting. The multiple comparison test show: (1) TAI method produce learning achievement that is better than lecture method, (2) learning achievements of students who have a high learning activity and medium learning activity is better than the students who have low learning activity, (3) There is no difference in learning achievement of students that uses TAI with high, medium and low learning activities

Income inequality and cardiovascular disease risk factors in a highly unequal country: a fixed-effects analysis from South Africa

Background: Chronic stress associated with high income inequality has been hypothesized to increase CVD risk and other adverse health outcomes. However, most evidence comes from high-income countries, and there is limited evidence on the link between income inequality and biomarkers of chronic stress and risk for CVD. This study examines how changes in income inequality over recent years relate to changes in CVD risk factors in South Africa, home to some of the highest levels of income inequality globally. Methods: We linked longitudinal data from 9356 individuals interviewed in the 2008 and 2012 National Income Dynamics Study to district-level Gini coefficients estimated from census and survey data. We investigated whether subnational district income inequality was associated with several modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in South Africa, including body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, blood pressure, physical inactivity, smoking, and high alcohol consumption. We ran individual fixed-effects models to examine the association between changes in income inequality and changes in CVD risk factors over time. Linear models were used for continuous metabolic outcomes while conditional Poisson models were used to estimate risk ratios for dichotomous behavioral outcomes. Results: Both income inequality and prevalence of most CVD risk factors increased over the period of study. In longitudinal fixed-effects models, changes in district Gini coefficients were not significantly associated with changes in CVD risk factors. Conclusions: Our findings do not support the hypothesis that subnational district income inequality is associated with CVD risk factors within the high-inequality setting of South Africa

Arabic validation of the Compulsive Internet Use Scale (CIUS)

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The popularity of using the Internet and related applications has grown in Arabic countries in recent years. Despite numerous advantages in terms of optimizing communications among individuals and social systems, the use of the Internet may in certain cases become problematic and engender negative consequences in daily life. As no instrument in the Arabic language is available, however, to measure excessive Internet use, the goal of the current study was to validate an Arabic version of the Compulsive Internet Use Scale (CIUS).</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>The Arabic version of the CIUS was administered to a sample of 185 Internet users and exploratory and confirmatory analyses performed.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>As found previously for the original version, a one-factor model of the CIUS had good psychometric properties and fit the data well. The total score on the CIUS was positively associated with time spent online.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>The Arabic version of the CIUS seems to be a valid self-report to measure problematic Internet use.</p

Tackling child poverty in South Africa: Implications of ubuntu for the system of social grants

In the South African context both liberal and – in the form of the southern African idea of ubuntu – more communitarian and relational discourses of citizenship can be seen. The policy framework to tackle child policy, however, is dominated by the framework of liberal citizenship, most clearly through the Bill of and the various social grants. Using analyses from an original microsimulation model developed by one of the authors the paper shows however how a neglect of children’s relationships and inter-connectedness with their adult parents/carers in the current liberal citizenship inspired policy approach limits the effectiveness of this child poverty strategy. The empirical analyses demonstrate how a greater recognition in policy of the relational principles of ubuntu through more fully addressing the needs of children’s parents/carers via the creation of a comprehensive social security grant for working age adults is needed to effectively reduce child poverty as well as working age poverty

Level of agreement between objectively determined body composition and perceived body image in 6- To 8-year-old South African children- To Body Composition-Isotope Technique study

To assess the level of agreement between body size self-perception and actual body size determined by body mass index (BMI) z-score and body fatness measured by the deuterium dilution method (DDM) in South African children aged 6-8 years. A cross-sectional sample of 202 children (83 boys and 119 girls) aged 6-8 years from the Body Composition-Isotope Technique study (BC-IT) was taken. Subjective measures of body image (silhouettes) were compared with the objective measures of BMI z-score and body fatness measured by the DDM. The World Health Organization BMI z-scores were used to classify the children as underweight, normal, overweight, or obese. DDM-measured fatness was classified based on the McCarthy centile curves set at 2nd, 85th and 95th in conjunction with fatness cut-off points of 25% in boys and 30% in girls. Data were analyzed using SPSS v26. Of 202 children, 32.2%, 55.1%, 8.8%, and 2.4% perceived their body size as underweight, normal, overweight, and obese, respectively. Based on BMI z-score, 18.8%, 72.8%, 6.9%, and 1.5% were classified as underweight, normal, overweight, and obese, respectively. Body fatness measurement showed that 2.5%, 48.0%, 21.8%, and 29.7% were underweight, normal weight, overweight, and obese, respectively