Judul: Pengaruh Model Kepemimpinan Kepala Sekolah terhadap Motivasi Kerja Guru SMK Negeri 3 Kuningan
Abstrak: SMK Negeri 3 Kuningan is one of vocational school that located in Kabupaten Kuningan. SMK Negeri 3 Kuningan has achieved “A” acreditation and ISO certificate 9001:2008 in 2011. The objective of this research is to identify leadership style of the principal that implied in SMK Negeri 3 Kuningan, to identify the teachers’ motivation in SMK Negeri 3 Kuningan and analyze the effect of principals leadership model on teachers’ motivation in SMK Negeri 3 Kuningan. Most of the result of descriptive analysis showed that the teachers’ characteristics in SMK Negeri 3 Kuningan are males, with bachelor degree as their educational background, the religion majority is Islam, the range of teachers ages are 23-58 years old, and the length of work between 1 to 37 years. The SEM result using PLS method showed that the principal applied the charismatic leadership model, and the teachers’ motivation which influenced the most is responsibility. According to result of this effect of principals leadership model on teachers motivation is positive and significant, it can be seen from the beta of 7.414 (ttable significant 5% = 1.96)
Keyword: PLS, Work Motivation, Leadership of Model

Judul: Pengaruh Gaya Kepemimpinan Kepala Sekolah Terhadap Motivasi Kerja Guru SDN Cipaku Perumda Bogor.
Abstrak: Pendidikan merupakan masalah yang berkaitan dengan kehidupan manusia. Peran pemimpin pendidikan sangat penting demi mewujudkan tercapainya tujuan pendidikan. Tujuan penelitian adalah menganalisis pengaruh gaya kepemimpinan kepala sekolah terhadap motivasi kerja guru. Penelitian dilakukan terhadap SDN Cipaku Perumda Bogor dan teknik pengambilan contoh dengan metode Sensus. Metode analisis yang digunakan regresi linear berganda Hasil penelitian menunjukan secara parsial terdapat pengaruh positif gaya kepemimpinan laissez faire kepala sekolah terhadap motivasi kerja guru. Secara simultan, terdapat pengaruh positif gaya kepemimpinan otokratik, partisipatif, laissez faire dan transformasional terhadap motivasi kerja guru.
Keyword: gaya kepemimpinan, kepala sekolah, motivasi guru, Pendidikan, regresi linear berganda

Judul: Posisi Filogenetik Kura-Kura Carettochelys Insculpta  (Reptillia: Testudinata)
Abstrak: Carettochelys insculpta is an endemic freshwater turtle of southern Papua and northern Australia. Phylogenetic position of this turtle is remain unresolved until now. Most of the research conducted show close relationships of C. insculpta and members of Trionychidae family. However, some of the research show distance between C. insculpta and members of Trionychidae family. This research is conducted to analyze phylogenetic relationship between C. insculpta and other members of Testudinata using 12S rRNA, 16S rRNA, and both gene as markers. DNA samples were obtained from three different organisms of C. insculpta. Two species used as outgroups were Alligator mississippiensis and Iguana iguana. Phylogenetic analysis was carried out using Neighbor-Joining method with Felsenstein 1981 (F81) modeltest. A polytomy tree of Testudinata was produced by using 12S rRNA gene. However, analysis using 16S rRNA and both genes as markers confirmed that C. insculpta was located between the Chelonidae and the Trionychidae family.
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