Education Overview 20nd Edition: Cultivating Meaningful Literacy in Probolinggo Regency
The education overview 20nd edition presents endline study results regarding the depiction of literacy and numeracy in Probolinggo Regency. Utilizing PEMANTIK (PSPK Independent Measurement of Numeracy and Literacy ) instrument, PSPK (Center of Education and Policy Study) conducted this research as a part of KLB (Meaningful Literacy Collaboration), one of the partners of INOVASI in East Java. INOVASI (Innovation for Indonesian Students) is an education partnership program between Indonesian and Australia Government that aims to find and understand ways to improve elementary student’s learning outcomes – specifically ways that are related with literacy ability, numeracy ability, and inclusion education. Working with Ministry of Education and Culture, INOVASI has established partnership with 17 Cities spread across West Nusa Tenggara, East Nusa Tenggara, North Kalimantan Utara, and East Java. This education program has been conducted since 2016 until 2019 and organized by a Palladium on behalf of Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). INOVASI started a collaborative program with several education organizations in Indonesia since July 2018 in order to support the program’s objective in improving learning outcomes of elementary student’s learning outcomes.
Generally, study results show that the majority of students show their ability in comprehending short text and subtraction without regrouping/borrowing. This matter was majorly influenced by class hierarchy, where students in higher hierarchy managed to present higher literacy and numeracy ability as well. On the other hand, the data of this study shows other aspects outside of school such as socioeconomic status (SES) can’t predict student’s achievements. This indicates the importance of school’s role in Probolinggo District in developing children’s literacy and numeracy ability. In other words, in the context of this study, schools can be highly relied on regarding children’s education. Based on that, further recommendations are required especially in sharing roles between schools and families/parents in education.
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