Integrated Schools Movement: The Identification Of Character Education Values In Smp Piri 1 Yogyakarta

Providing character building for students is one of the school responsibilities. The program is included in the Presidential Regulation Number 87 Article 3 of 2017. Based on the regulation, both levels of high school, junior and senior, in Yogyakarta have already implemented character education in their teaching programs. This situation urged the researchers to conduct a study that aims to identify the characters of students in SMP PIRI 1 Yogyakarta. The research is a descriptive study with quantitative approach. The data collection techniques used was questionnaires and documentation. The subject of the study was students of SMP PIRI 1 Yogyakarta, determined through simple random sampling technique. The researchers used a quantitative descriptive analysis technique to analyze the data, which is described in the form of a percentage. After calculating the percentage, a character identification category for students in PIRI 1 Yogyakarta was determined. The results showed that as many as 16.4% of the students’ characters are included in the category of "Very Low", 19.2% are included in the category of "Low", 42.3%included in the category of "Moderate" , 14.2% included in the "High" category, and 7.88% included in the "Very High" category. Based on these results, it can be identified that the character of students has an average value of 2.337 or included in the category of "Moderate".