The Evaluation of Students? Careness in Elementary School

Someone is said to be moral when able to judge good and bad things (have moral awareness) and followed by good behavior, true and in accordance with values. Human morality has three components cognition, emotions (feeling) and behavior. Moral cognition is formed through the process of value internalization. This study aims to measure and evaluate the caring value of students in the stages information (recognizing and understanding), belief (feeling) and Attitude (tendency). This research used quantitative descriptive research method. Participants in the study were 88 elementary students at primary schools from Bandung (West Java Province), Indonesia selected by purposive sampling. The sample are students from grade five (age 11). The results showed that 63 % of students have scores above average, meaning that 56 students or 63 % of students have knowledge about the caring value and its indicators, believe in or appreciate the caring value, and show how the tendency to be a caring person. A person& #039, s value knowledge is influenced by various factors. Environment, parents& #039, role and family system, formal education, role taking and also, gender. Knowledge of value is certainly not enough to shape a person& #039, s careness. It takes role model and habituation of caring attitude in the long term. To increase knowledge about the caring value required learning process and teaching materials that are character-filled.