The Effect of Technical Discussion Group Guidance on Students’ Academic Procrastination Amid The Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of group guidance services with discussion technique on academic procrastination of students of Vocational High School 4 in Surakarta amid the covid-19 pandemic. The research method used is an experimental method with a research design of one group design pre-test and post-test. This method was carried out by giving a pre-test before being treated with group guidance services with discussion techniques and then a post-test after being given treatment. The results of the pre-test and post-test data will show whether there is a difference between before and after being given the treatment. The sampling technique used was purposive sampling, by taking 12 students of class X majoring in Catering. The data was collected using questionnaires, interviews, and documentation. The data was then analysed using paired sample t-test which shows the value of tcount ttable, which is 12,784 2,200. The results also showed a significance value of 0.000 0.05. The value of the comparison of pre-test and post-test from the results of the paired sample t-test shows the number of 17.33. To sum up, the study showed the difference between the results of the pre-test and post-test which implies the significance influence of discussion technique group guidance services on the academic procrastination of students class X majoring in Catering at Surakarta Vocational High School 4 during the pandemic.

Keywords

• group guidance
• discussion techniques
• academic procrastination