<p class="PRIMAJUDULArtikelEnglish">Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk: (1) mengevaluasi ketercapaian program pendidikan karakter pada tingkat sekolah dasar di Kabupaten Kulon Progo, (2) memberikan rekomendasi baik kepada guru, sekolah, maupun pemerintah untuk perbaikan program pendidikan karakter. Jenis penelitian adalah evaluasi program (evaluasi formatif) dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Subjek penelitian meliputi: (1) empat sekolah dasar di Kabupaten Kulon Progo, yaitu SDN 4 Wates, SDN 6 Bendungan, SDN Kriyan, dan SDN Selo; (2) Pengawas SD Kecamatan Kokap dan Pengawas SD Kecamatan Wates; dan (3) Di-nas Pendidikan Kulon Progo. Data dianalisis dengan menggunakan analisis data Milles &amp; Huberman meliputi: reduksi data, penyajian data, dan verifikasi data. Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini adalah: (1) kesiapan sekolah dasar di Kabupaten Kulon Progo untuk mengimplementasikan pendidikan karakter baik, dinilai dari kurikulum yang telah terintegrasi pendidikan karakter, namun masih kurang dalam hal pengelolaan sarana prasarana pendukung dan banyak guru memerlukan lebih banyak pengetahuan dan keterampilan tentang pendidikan karakter; (2) implementasi pendidikan karakter belum tampak pada kegiatan pembelajaran; (3) dukungan dari pemerintah dalam sosialisasi atau pelatihan dirasa masih kurang oleh sekolah; (4) monitoring dan evaluasi pendidikan karakter masih terbatas pada kurikulum dan dilakukan melalui pembinaan pengawas di setiap sekolah; dan (5) kendala yang umum dihadapi sekolah adalah penilaian sikap siswa yang belum terdokumentasi, kurangnya pemahaman guru untuk mengimplementasikan pendidikan karakter, dan tidak adanya sinergi antara pendidikan di sekolah dengan pendidikan di rumah.</p> <p class="PRIMAABSTRAKKeywords"><strong>_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</strong></p> <p><strong><em> </em></strong></p> <p class="PRIMAABSTRAKJudul"><strong>A PROGRAM EVALUATION OF CHARACTER EDUCATION IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OF KULON PROGO REGENCY<br /></strong></p><p class="PRIMAABSTRAKJudul"><em><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></em></p> <p class="PRIMAABSTRAKBodyEnglish">This study aims to: (1) evaluate the progress of character education program in the elementary schools in Kulon Progo Regency, and (2) give recommendation to teachers, schools, and the government about the character education program’s improvement. This research used a program evaluation of Scriven’s formative evaluation model with the qualitative approach. The research subjects comprised: (1) four elementary schools in Kulon Progo, i.e. SDN 4 Wates, SDN 6 Bendungan, SDN Kriyan, and SDN Selo, (2) elementary school’s superintendents of Wates and Kokap, and (3) the education department of Kulon Progo. This research used the qualitative data analysis from Miles &amp; Huberman, consisting of data reduction, data display, and verification. The conclusions of this study are that: (1) the readiness of school for implementing character education is good, assessed from their curriculum integrated with character education, but still not good enough in terms of facility management, and the number of teachers in need of more knowledge and skills about character education; (2) the implementation of character education does not happen yet in the classroom learning activities; (3) the sample schools consider that the support from the government is insufficient especially for character education training; (4) the monitoring and evaluation of character education are still limited to the curriculum and done by the school’s superintendents; and (5) the constraints at character education are undocumented students’s behavior assessment, lack of teacher’s understanding to implement the character education, and there is no synergy between education at school and education at home.</p> <strong>Keywords</strong>: program evaluation, character education, elementary school<br />