Students often experience stress that comes from academic activities. For final-year students, finishing a thesis often become a stressor. Symptoms of stress in students are feeling tired, anxious, not eager to do the thesis. The impact is the thesis is delayed and the students chose to forget it, avoided their lecturers, complained in the social media about the difficulties encountered and ultimately delayed the study period. When experiencing stress, students share their problems to the peer group to get a solution or just to relieve his feelings, called self disclosure. This study aims to determine the influence of self disclosure on stress levels, using method of correlation with simple linear regression analysis. The measuring instrument were the Revised Self Disclosure Scale and the Student-Life Stress Inventory. The participants were 49 students of psychology UIN who are working on thesis. The results showed no influence of self disclosure toward stress levels.

The development of information technology lately can harm the character of a nation. One creative effort to overcome this problem is the character in educational institutions. This study aims to determine the application of religious character education. This research uses a descriptive-analytic method with a qualitative approach. The location of the study was at Bandung Hikmah Exemplary Junior High School, the subjects of the study were the principal, curriculum waka, educators, and students. The results of his research are; (1) religious character values that are applied are spiritual values and insanity, (2) implementation is carried out by integrating learning with various activities in school, (3) the supporting factor is adherence to discipline, while the inhibiting factor is environmental differences association and the community environment, (4) the results of the implementation of religious character education can be seen from the existence of self-awareness in religion and show good academic results.

This study was motivated by the fact that the process of learning the Quran Hadith subject in Madrasah Aliyah is still far from developing the students' critical thinking skills, caused by the learning process most focused on result and value (product oriented). This study aimed to generate and develop a learning model to improve student’s critical thinking skills. This research was conducted using research and development approach (R & D), included (1) a preliminary study, (2) Model Development, and (3) Test validation. Model testing carried out by experiment in the form of a quasi-experimental design with pretest-posttest control group design. The results showed that the learning model developed proved more effective to improve the processes and outcomes of learning the Qur'an Hadith. In terms of the learning process, the implementation of this model can improve the performance of teachers, namely; more effective learning time, learning more concentrated and more controlled learning activities.

ABSTRAK

Arabic course is a university course that must be followed by all students of UIN Sunan Gunung Djati. Based on the observation, learning Arabic in UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung reap the constraints and challenges in its implementation. To overcome this problem, the development of learning model can be considered as an alternative. This research uses research and development (R D) method. Located on UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung campus in Psychology course. Research subjects in this study were students and lecturers of Islamic Education Department Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung. In the implementation, this learning model is quite effective in order to improve the performance of lecturers and student motivation in the process of learning Arabic and is known to be more effective when compared with the Arabic learning that has been going on.