http://pakar.pkm.unp.ac.id/index.php/pakar <p style="text-align: justify;">PAKAR (Penelitian Aktual dan Kajian Analisis Reformasi) Pendidikan: p-ISSN:&nbsp;<a href="https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/1693-2226" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1693-2226</a>; e-ISSN:&nbsp;<a href="https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/2303-2219" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2303-2219</a>&nbsp;is a national journal published by The Center of Research and Scientific Development of Students at the Universitas Negeri Padang, Indonesia. This journal discusses and raises various issues related to educational issues including theory, concepts, and practices related to curriculum, media, models, instruments, development, and evaluation of and action research. Articles will be published if they are scientifically valuable, provide new knowledge, and are useful for the education community. This journal is published twice a year, published in January and July. We were inviting scientists, researchers, and professionals in education to submit their papers to our journal. Pakar Journal of Education-PAKAR Pendidikan is currently indexed on Google Scholar, Garuda (Garda Rujukan Digital), Indonesia Onesearch, Bielefeld Academic Seach Engine, PKP Indeks, Cite Factor Academic Scientific Journals, Directory of Research Journal Indexing, Crossref, Dimension.</p> Universitas Negeri Padang en-US PAKAR Pendidikan 1693-2226 <p><img src="/public/site/images/pakar_ppipm/cc_by.JPG" width="711" height="151"></p> <p>&nbsp;<strong><img src="/public/site/images/pakar_ppipm/by.png" width="91" height="32">&nbsp; PAKAR Pendidikan is&nbsp;licensed under a&nbsp;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a></strong></p> <p><strong>Free to:</strong></p> <ul class="license-properties"> <li class="license share show"><strong>Share</strong>&nbsp;— copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format</li> <li class="license remix show"><strong>Adapt</strong>&nbsp;— remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.</li> </ul> <p align="justify">PAKAR Pendidikan Journal is licensed under a&nbsp;<a title="CC-BY" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>. This permits anyone to copy, redistribute, remix, transmit and adapt the work provided the original work and source are appropriately cited.</p> <p align="justify">This means:<br>(1) Under the CC-BY license, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their article, but authors grant others permission to use the content of publications in INVOTEK Journal in whole or in part provided that the original work is properly cited. Users (redistributors) of PAKAR Pendidikan Journal are required to cite the original source, including the author's name, PAKAR Pendidikan Journal as the initial source of publication, year of publication, volume number, issue, and Digital Object Identifier (DOI);<br>(2) Authors grant PAKAR Pendidikan the right of first publication. Although authors remain the copyright owner.</p> <h2><strong>Privacy Statement</strong></h2> <p>The names, email addresses, and affiliations entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purpose of providing readers professional access to the authors whose articles are published by the journal. No other information is collected, and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.</p> http://pakar.pkm.unp.ac.id/index.php/pakar/article/view/599 <p><em>Students learn, change attitudes, and develop life skills inside and outside school by following and obeying the rules in structured education. This study was conducted to analyze and find out what factors affect student motivation to learn social studies and to know the role and contribution of the school environment to student learning motivation. This study uses a descriptive qualitative method, the sampling technique of which is purposive sampling, to determine the research sample. For data collection techniques used are library research and field research, including observation, interviews, and documentation. The results showed that the school environment influences student learning motivation to facilitate the teaching and learning process. Physical factors, such as classroom facilities and cleanliness, affect children's sense of comfort and safety in the school environment. Social interactions between learners, teachers, and education personnel are part of the school environment, which is very important in fostering harmony, collaboration, and a sense of unity in the school community, ultimately impacting students' academic drive. Teacher factors include teaching methods and exemplary school atmosphere and conditions, school friends (classmates), student health, talents possessed by each student, facilities, and infrastructure, completeness of learning tools and media, and family support, which all affect student learning motivation. The presence of complete facilities improves the quality of social studies learning, qualified teachers, a comfortable and clean school environment, and encouragement and motivation from social studies teachers.</em></p> Mutawalli Syakrawi Ponidi Ponidi ##submission.copyrightStatement## http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2024-08-13 2024-08-13 23 1 1 10 10.24036/pakar.v23i1.599 http://pakar.pkm.unp.ac.id/index.php/pakar/article/view/618 <p>The Merdeka Curriculum is a curriculum with diverse intracurricular learning, the content will be more optimal so that students have enough time to explore concepts and strengthen competencies. The purpose of this study was to determine teacher perceptions of the Merdeka Curriculum at SMA Negeri 3 Padang, namely planning, implementation and evaluation processes. This research is a quantitative descriptive study using population research. Sampling using the total sampling technique with 65 respondents who implemented the Merdeka Curriculum at SMA Negeri 3 Padang. The data collection technique used in this study was a questionnaire. The validity test of the research instrument is based on logical validity and emipirs while the reliability test uses the Cronbach's Alpha technique with a reliability coefficient value&gt; 0.7. The results of this study indicate that: (1) teachers' perceptions of the Merdeka Curriculum in SMA Negeri 3 Padang are in the well implemented category (97%); (2) teachers' perceptions of the preparation of the Merdeka Curriculum in SMA Negeri 3 Padang are in the very well implemented category (97%); (3) teachers' perceptions of the implementation of the Merdeka Curriculum learning in SMA Negeri 3 Padang are in the well implemented category (95.4%); (4) teachers' perceptions of the Merdeka Curriculum assessment process in SMA Negeri 3 Padang are in the very well implemented category (84.6%).</p> Syifa Afifah Zuwirna Zuwirna Mutiara Felicita Amsal Rahmi Pratiwi Aura Syfa Fitriani Zaqiya Zahwa Alifa ##submission.copyrightStatement## http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2024-11-16 2024-11-16 23 1 11 26 10.24036/pakar.v23i1.618