Measuring and Analyzing Students’ Personal Characters in Implementing Character Education

The purposes of this study are to re-identify the relevant measurement for student’s personal characters in implementing character education for high school, and apply this measurement to analyze the effect of those characters to student academic achievement. By using factor analysis the research findings show that they are 8 dimensions of personal characters with 34 items are considered as relevant instruments for assessing personal characters building in education specifically in high school. Evidence of the scale’s reliability, factor structure, and validity on the basis of analyzing data from 9 samples of high schools with 450 respondents are presented. Finally paper presents the influence of personal characters to academic achievement. The analysis shows that 2 from 8 dimensions of personal characters have significant influence to academic achievement. They are D2 Peacefulness, and D4 Tolerance.