New Model of Assessment to Measure an Academic Culture in Learning Processes

Abstract

The learning change in universities is in the form of unwell-created academic culture. It is indicated by low frequency of discussion culture either by lecturers or students, lack of journal reading habit, unwell-created academic environment, and others. This paper proposes model instruments to measure an academic culture in learning activities at Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta and to create validity and reliability for measuring processes of academic culture. The development of this study employs a Plomp model which consists of five stages, including preliminary investigation, design, realization/construction, test, evaluation, and revision. The samples were 42 lecturers and 58 students. The expert judgment was used to validate the instruments, and the Kappa was used to analyze the reliability. The results show that the instruments for academic culture were developed to measure well. Each item of this instruments has high validity and precisely measures the academic culture in learning processes. The reliability index is 0.84, which means that the value of reliability index meets the requirement for the reliability index (≥ 0.70). It can be concluded that the proposed instruments can be used to measure the quality to improve teaching and learning activities.