Abstract:
The purposes of study were to find out the followings 1) cognitive attitude of
students toward the education of relevancy at PKBM Primatrain Pekanbaru. 2)
Affective attitude of students toward the education of Equivalence at PKBM
Primatrain Pekanbaru. 3) Conative attitude of students toward t the education of
Equivalence at PKBM Primatrain Pekanbaru. The question that guided the study
was: how students‟ attitude toward the education of Equivalence?. The study was
designed descriptively, the data was collected through questionnaires consisted of
40 questions. After testing, the questionnaires that were valid 31 items and 9 items
were not valid. All instruments were valid with “r calculation = 0.444 with high
validity. The population of study was the students at the education of equivalence
at PKBM Primatrain Pekanbaru numbering 55 persons. The samples were taken
using random sampling, then 20 persons were taken for test sample and the rest 35
become the sample of study. Based on the results of study the writer concluded
that students „attitude toward the Equivalence of education at cognitive indicator,
affective and conative was categorize good/high. Students‟ attitude toward the the
education of equivalence at PKBM Primatrain Pekanbaru at every aspect based on
average scores, respondent‟s answers said very agreed was 36.65%, respondent‟s
answers said agreed was 45.20%, respondent‟s answers said less-agreed was
10.67% and respondent‟s answers said disagreed was 4.13% and respondent‟s
answers said very disagree was 3.11%. When the answers of very agreed and
agreed were combined this means (36.65%+45.20%) or 81.85% respondents.
Based on scoring criteria specified the writer concluded that students‟ attitude
toward the Equivalence education at PKBM Primatrain Pekanbaru was
categorized very good. Student‟s cognitive attitude toward the education of
equivalence was higher than student‟s affective attitude and conative. This means
that knowledge, opinion, faith, and idea on students had the important role then
the parts of affective and conative
