Analysis Of Factors That Influence The Allocated Time To Finish Thesis Of High Capability Students With CHAID Methods In Faculty Of Teacher’s Training IAIN Bukittinggi

Thesis is one of the requirements that must be fulfilled by students to complete the bachelors program (S1). Ideally the thesis can be completed in six months, but in fact many students who completed it exceeded the ideal time, including students who have a GPA above 3.51 (high category). 51% of graduates from Faculty of Teacher’s Training (FTIK) IAIN Bukittinggi who belongs to the high capability delays in completing their thesis. Many factors affect the delay both internally and externally. To see what factors significantly influence the researchers used the CHAID Methods. This method is superior compared to other methods because the analysis is faster and the data is presented in the form of tree diagrams, making it more interesting and easier to translate. Based on the analysis of CHAID, it was obtained that the significant factors influence the length of time to finish thesis; they are department and data sources. Characteristics of students who are likely to be late in completing their thesis are students from Islamic studies department or Counseling department and students from English department or mathematics department or informatics and computer engineering department with secondary data sources. The analytical accuracy of the resulting model is 80.6%. These results are supposed to be one of the references to minimize time delays in completing the thesis for high capability students in Faculty of Teacher’s Training IAIN Bukittinggi.