REALITY THERAPY THROUGH GROUP COUNSELING TO IMPROVE SELF-REGULATED LEARNING OF THESIS DRAFTING STUDENTS

Abstract

Researchers intend to conduct research to provide intervention in the form of providing reality therapy in group counseling activities to improve self-regulated learning in thesis preparation students. The expected benefits of this study consist of two, namely theoretically in this study can contribute to the science of educational psychology, regarding the concepts of reality therapy and self-regulated learning. This study used an experimental design with untreated control group design with dependent pretest and posttest. In addition, researchers also added follow-up to test the effect of reality therapy on self-regulated learning after 2 weeks of therapy. Based on data analysis and discussion conducted in this study, it can be concluded that reality therapy through group counseling can improve self-regulated learning in thesis drafting students, especially students who are research subjects in experimental groups.