Interest in learning can help students in learning activities and get satisfying results. The phenomenon that occurs is the low student learning outcomes because of a lack of interest in learning possessed by students. This study measures student interest in the vocational high school (SMK) learning. This study involved 154 students. The instrument in the study was in the form of a learning interest questionnaire with a Likert model scale. Data were analyzed using the Rasch Model approach. The results showed that the learning interest of some students was in the medium category. In addition, there were 30 students who provided answers or showed outliers. As for the quality of the learning interest instrument used, it is good to be used to identify student interest in learning, we can see this from the reliability value of 0.97. The findings show that overall student interest in learning is in the medium category.

Living apart for spouses can be one of the causes of conflict. For the commuter marriage couples, trust, respect, and openness are the key to success in maintaining the marriage. This research analyzed eight commuter marriage couples, the established type, who have been married for more than 13 years with children. The couples are forced to stay far apart for work reasons, so the frequency of meeting can be done at least once a week. This research used effective interpersonal communication theory and conflict management to analyze commuter marriage couple in maintaining their marriages. The results showed that maintaining communication and interpersonal relationships can maintain marriage for commuter marriage couples, the established type, as a commitment to their marital goals. The majority of commuter marriage couples always maintain openness, supportive attitudes, empathy, positive attitudes and sincerity in the pursuit of marriage, although limited by time and space. Mutual trust, supportive, and openness encourages mutual understanding, mutual respect, and mutual development of interpersonal relationships. In addition, the handling of conflicts by informants is positive and constructive without breaking interpersonal relationships. The results also proved that each pair manages the conflict differently. Some of them use compromising, accommodating, collaborating, avoiding, and competing. In addition, the development of information technology also facilitates communication access to each other. Hence, time and distance differences are not an obstacle.

This article reveals effective sentences in the exposition text of class VIII students of SMP Negeri 1 Padang Panjang. The purpose of this study is three. First, describe the effectiveness of the sentence in the exposition text of class VIII students of SMP Negeri 1 Padang Panjang in terms of the accuracy of sentence structure. Second, describe the effectiveness of the sentence in the exposition text of class VIII students of SMP Negeri 1 Padang Panjang in terms of the accuracy of word choice. Third, describe the effectiveness of sentences in the exposition text of class VIII students of SMP Negeri 1 Padang Panjang in terms of spelling accuracy. This type of research is a qualitative descriptive method. The source of this research data is the task of students in writing exposition text class VIII Padang Panjang Middle School 1 which was registered in 2018/2019. The sample in this study was determined by proportional random sampling, which is 30 students' work. The results of the study are three. First, the effectiveness in terms of sentence structure is 344 effective sentences and 121 sentences are not effective. Second, the effectiveness of sentences in terms of word choices have 21 effective sentences and 444 sentences not effective. Third, the effectiveness of the sentence in terms of spelling found 253 effective sentences and 212 sentences were not effective. Based on the results of the study it was concluded that of the 465 sentences studied there were 81 effective sentences and 370 sentences not effective. Kata kunci:Kalimat Efektif, Teks Eksposisi