Research Article
The Effect of Verbal Skills and Self-Placement on Students Acceptance of Community Service Program in East Towuti
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.11-12-2019.2290880, author={Muhammad Guntur and Hengki Wijaya and Zulfah Zulfah and St. Maria Ulfah and Bahartiar Bahartiar}, title={The Effect of Verbal Skills and Self-Placement on Students Acceptance of Community Service Program in East Towuti}, proceedings={Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Multidisciplinary and Its Applications, WMA-3 2019, 11-14 December 2019, Medan, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={WMA-3}, year={2020}, month={3}, keywords={verbal skills self-placement students}, doi={10.4108/eai.11-12-2019.2290880} }- Muhammad Guntur
Hengki Wijaya
Zulfah Zulfah
St. Maria Ulfah
Bahartiar Bahartiar
Year: 2020
The Effect of Verbal Skills and Self-Placement on Students Acceptance of Community Service Program in East Towuti
WMA-3
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.11-12-2019.2290880
Abstract
The community service program is an activity for undergraduate students in several universities. This activity combines the implementation of education and learning in Higher Education with the method of providing learning experiences and working for students in community empowerment activities. Students who carry out fieldwork need language skills, and communicate well; besides that, self-placement in the community is also essential. This type of research is associative research using path analysis techniques (path analysis). The sampling technique with probability sampling, the samples into research was 30 respondents. Data collection in this study used a questionnaire. Based on the results of data analysis shows the correlation coefficient of verbal ability to self-placement is equal to 0.776 and has a positive value or an influence of 77.6%. The verbal ability correlation coefficient on the level of student acceptance is positively valued at 0.387 or has an effect of 38.7%. The value of the impact of self-placement on the level of student acceptance is 0.348. Verbal ability and self-placement influence student acceptance rates of 0.691 or an effect of 69.1%. It can be concluded that verbal ability and self-placement affect the level of student acceptance.