Adi Atmoko

Academic Cheating in School: A Process of Dissonance Between Knowledge and Conduct

Abstract Academic cheating behavior in schools have been discussed and reported. Students display academic cheating behavior during tests, quizzes, or tasks. The dynamics of academic cheating behavior is complex and not easily explained with just one factor. The external factors such as peer influence, teacher’s teaching methods, parental pressure, and academic climate are factors that interact with each other to bring out student academic cheating behavior. The grades or numbers from the tests, quizzes, or tasks are used to represent the students’ academic performance in school. On junior high school, cheating is already common, generally conducted during tests or quizzes in the form of copying the answers of other students and cooperating on the test. This research is a preliminary quantitative study in the attempt to describe academic cheating behavior on 139 grade XII junior high school students. Sample collection was conducted with “multistage random stratified sampling” or graded/leveled random collection method, which is a sample collection method with population units grouped into homogeneous groups. Research results showed that there were no correlation between students’ knowledge of plagiarizing behavior with the behavior appearance (r = -.0.096, p = 0.260) and between knowledge of cheating behavior with the behavior appearance (r = -0.08, p = 0.925). However, there was a difference on the appearance of plagiarizing behavior reviewed from the knowledge of plagiarism (F = 2.303, p = 0.038) while there was no difference on cheating behavior reviewed from the knowledge of cheating (F = 1.18, p = 0.355). This showed that the frequency of students conducting cheating or plagiarizing behavior was not merely based on their level of knowledge.

The synthesis of Javanese woman's facial image on anger expression based on emotion regulation

The synthesis of human face has been used in many applications. In the human-machine dialogue systems, human face that looks similar to its original face is used as the visual representation from the computer agent which interacts with the human user. Making the image of face synthesis from the human face that looks natural is not the simple thing, because human facial expressions influenced by many things not always followed by the emotion they want to show. The Javanese women are the interesting case, because of their character as the person who upholds the unity and harmony values. Therefore, they always show respect and well-mannered in their speaking and attitude to other people, including their face expression, even if it is different with their feeling. This is because they do not want to make any conflicts. In this research, we represent on how the harmony value as the regulation value influences the Javanese woman facial expressions when they are angry. The harmony values itself can reduce the one“s anger emotion until 26%. The ANFIS classifier is used to classify the anger emotion, with three stimulus appraisal values (“angry,” “rather angry,” and “not angry”) and one regulation value (harmony value) as the inputs. The output of this classifier is the synthesis of Javanese womans face expression. Based on the research, we conclude that the Javanese woman face synthesis can be presented close to their real character. By the regulation value, the expression of the Javanese woman anger face will be reduced; therefore, its image will show not angry or hold their anger. This is compatible with the character of Javanese woman when they are angry, where they do not show over-reacting to avoid any conflicts.