scholarly journals The Feasibility of English Textbook for Vocational School

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-63
Author(s):  
Masrupi Masrupi ◽  
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Akhmad Baihaqi ◽  
Miftahul Hakim

The objective of the research is aiming to identify the feasibility of the English textbooks for use by vocational school in Pandeglang regency. To reach the objective, the researchers used qualitative research. The data were collected from three English textbooks used for vocational school, interview, and questionnaire. The techniques of analyzing data were focused on the analysis of materials provided within the textbook with the core and basic competence of 2013 curriculum. The criteria were suggested by National Education Standards Agency (Badan Standar Nasional Pendidikan) and Rajan material design. The findings show that (1) the material relevance to the core and basic competence of 2013 Curriculum of the first English textbook (TB1) is 81.25%, the second English textbook (TB2) is 93.75%, and the third English textbook (TB3) is 87.5%; and (2) the categories of feasible textbook for vocational students for TB1 is 83.3%, TB2 is 91.6%, and TB3 is 75%. These results indicate that the three books are relevant and feasible for use by vocational school students.

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Slamet PH

Abstrak: Untuk mendukung pembangunan ekonomi, Kementerian Pendidikan Nasional membuat kebijakan yang signifikan tentang proporsi jumlah siswa SMA dan SMK dari 57,85%:42,15% pada tahun 2007 dan menjadi 30%:70% pada tahun 2014. Kebijakan tersebut diharapkan mendukung pertumbuhan ekonomi dan mengurangi pengangguran. Kebijakan tersebut hanya didasarkan atas asumsi dan bukan data. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk: (1) menemukan proporsi jumlah siswa SMA dibanding siswa SMK tahun 2007 dan tahun 2014; (2) menemukan besarnya dukungan perbanyakan jumlah siswa SMK terhadap pertumbuhan ekonomi; (3) menemukan kontribusi ekspansi jumlah siswa SMK terhadap pengurangan pengangguran; (4) menyusun konsep proporsi jumlah siswa SMA dan SMK yang selaras dengan kebutuhan pembangunan ekonomi. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah diskriptif kuantitatif. Hasil penelitian ditemukan bahwa: (1) proporsi jumlah siswa SMA:SMK pada tahun 2014 adalah 51%:49%; (2) peningkatan jumlah siswa SMK tidak mendukung pertumbuhan ekonomi; (3) peningkatan jumlah siswa SMK menyebabkan tingkat pengangguran lulusan SMK makin tinggi; dan (4) idealnya, proporsi jumlah siswa SMA dan SMK didasarkan atas kebutuhan tenaga kerja. Kata kunci: proporsi, konstribusi, pertumbuhan ekonomi, dan pengagguran THE CONTRIBUTION OF POLICY OF INCREASING THE NUMBER OF VOCATIONAL STUDENTS TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN INDONESIA Abstract: To support economic development, The National Education Ministry made significant policy regarding the ratio of general secondary school students to vocational secondary school students from 57.85%:42.15% in 2007 to 30%:70% by 2014, supposedly. It is expected that the policy can support economic growth dan reduce unemployment. This policy change was decided based on assumption only and not based on accurate labor information. The objectives of this study were to find out: (1) proportion of general and vocational school students in 2007 and 2014; (2) the support to economic development from increasing the number of vocational secondary school students in 2007 and 2014; (3) to find out the contribution of increasing the number of vocational school students to unemployment reduction; and (4) the concept of link & match between vocational school and the world of work in terms of quantity.The research method used to achieve the objectives of research was descriptive quantitative. The research found that: (1) the ratio of general and vocational secondary school students was 51%:49% in 2014; (2) increasing the number of vocational school students did not support economic growth; (3) increasing the number of vocational school students increased unemployment of vocational school graduates; and (4) ideally, proportion of general and vocational students must be based on the needs of labor. Keywords: proportion, contribution, economic growth, and unemployment


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Novia Restu Windayani ◽  
Nur Qudus ◽  
Dwi Widjanarko

Competency test material is an integral part of an assessment in learning process. What is to be measured in learning and the availability of instrument. The purpose of the study is to analyze the validity of competency test material, the reliability of the test material, and to determine the effectiveness of competency test material. This study employed research and development (R & D) method. The product developed in this study was the daily make up competency test material validated by using expert validation, and has been tested on students of the beauty program in vocational high school in May 2018. The validity of the product was achieved by using validity test, reliability by reliability test and effectiveness of competency test material using normalized-gain test analysis. The results of the study on the development of daily makeup competency test materials for vocational school students in beauty program showed that there were 3 aspects of assessments: knowledge, attitudes and skills. The effectiveness of knowledge competency test material was 20%; attitude 35%; and skill 85%. The testing material was proven to be able to assess students effectively and objectively.


2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Asep Priatna

This study aims to reveal the efforts and results that have been achieved by Lampang Subang Integrated Private Vocational Schools in improving the quality of learning to meet national education standards (SNP), so that they become private schools with the status of national standard schools (SSN). This research is a survey research with a quantitative approach. The study was conducted at the Integrated Vocational School of Lampang Subang, West Java. The results showed that the level of achievement of the program that had been compiled in the RPS of Lampang Integrated Vocational School had reached 90% with the main target being the achievement of the UAN level and graduation that had been carried out by teachers both in the preparation of RPPs and teaching materials had reached 85%, Management developed by Integrated Vocational Schools Long-time contributed significant value, especially in program planning and implementation, while the supervision and leadership of the Principal has been running well, so the value obtained is quite significant, while other components that are quite prominent are PBM and content standards that get good enough grades , so that it can be developed further


Author(s):  
Fatkhur Rochman

The Contribution of Optimizing the Practical Facilities in Schools, Internship Guidance, Internship Implementation Toward Vocational Students’ Productive Study Outcome and Work Readiness. This study aims to determine the contribution of optimizing the practical facilities in schools, internship guidance, internship implementation on productive study outcome and work readiness of students on skill study programs TKJ SMK in Lamongan District. This research is included in the type of quantitative research. The number of samples used is 170 students. Data collection for facility optimizing, internship guidance, internship implementation and work readiness is done by questionnaire, while for productive study result variable is done with value documentation. The analysis technique used in this research is path analysis. The results showed: 1) There is a significant contribution of optimizing the practical facilities in schools, internship guidance, and internship implementation toward productive study outcome of 24.7%; (2) There is a significant contribution of optimizing the practical facilities in schools, internship guidance, internship implementation and productive study outcome toward students' work readiness of 42.4%.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-42
Author(s):  
Pusriawan Pusriawan ◽  
Sunaryo Soenarto

This study aims to determine how much the level of employability skills of students of State Vocational Schools in Palu City. This type of research is a type of survey that is to describe the attitudes, behaviors, and opinions of students' research employability skills using a quantitative deskriptive approach, then the results of data analysis are described qualitatively, then presented in graphs, diagrams, tables, mean, modes, medians, standard deviation and variant. The population in this study was 1,275 students with a study sample of 295 students. The data collection technique used is using a questionnaire. The results of the study indicate that the level of employability skills of vocational students in Palu is generally categorized as very high. The high level of employability skills of students in the State Vocational School in Palu should be a supporting factor for students to get decent work and in accordance with their competency skills so that stakeholders, especially the school must really use it well.


2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 216
Author(s):  
Herri Susanto ◽  
Rizki Pramudiningtyas ◽  
Muri Mukhrianto

The purpose of the study generally is to facilitate high school students preparation for National Test and State/private Entrance Test and specifically the purposes are 1)to increase the activity of  English learning videos through website, 2) to increase the learning activity through internet. The stages of this research consists of 5 stages such as; a) capturing English learning videos, b) creating website, c) uploading the videos to the website, d) launching the website to the third year of Bontang State Vocational School 3, and e) evaluating the website content. The results show that video learning designs is the most chosen feature(89%)  than other features on the website.   Furthermore, the questionaires reaveal that  100%  give positive responses to the website given.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Riskana Br Sitepu ◽  
Ani Rusilowati ◽  
Bambang Subali ◽  
Ahmad Sukron Khafifi

The purpose of this study was to analyze the ability of vocational students in understanding the concept of Rotational Dynamics. This study used qualitative methods with 10 respondents consisting of high, medium and low categories. Instruments in this study used essay test with 6 questions and interview. The results of this study showed that students' conceptual understanding in rotational dynamics was low. Students were still having difficulties in understanding the concept of Rotational Dynamics, namely in determining angular velocity, inertia moment equation, and solving equations. Then it is better to understand the concept needs to be applied in the learning process. So it can be concluded that conceptual understanding approach needs to be applied in the learning process.


Author(s):  
M. Agphin Ramadhan ◽  
R. Eka Murtinugraha ◽  
Muhamad Subarkah

This study aims to determine the feasibility of facilities and infrastructure of the Building Information Modeling (DPIB) Skills Competency Vocational School in Bekasi City and Regency in terms of Permendikbud No. 34 of 2018 and the Vocational Practice Exam Vocational School Verification Instrument issued by the National Education Standards Agency (BSNP). This research is a descriptive research method with a quantitative approach. Research data collection through observation, documentation and interviews. The data analysis used was descriptive statistics. The results of this study indicate that the feasibility level of the facilities and infrastructure of the DPIB Skills Competency Vocational School in Bekasi City in this case is SMK Negeri 6 Bekasi City, namely for the feasibility of class room facilities and the feasibility of practical room facilities with very feasible categories, for the availability of classroom facilities, feasibility of infrastructure. Classrooms and the availability of practical room facilities are categorized as feasible, while the feasibility of practice room infrastructure is categorized as less feasible. The feasibility level of the DPIB Skills Competency Vocational School in Bekasi Regency, in this case SMK Negeri 1 Cikarang Barat, is the feasibility of class room facilities and the feasibility of practice room facilities is categorized as very feasible, for the availability of classroom facilities, the availability of practice room facilities and the feasibility of practice room infrastructure are categorized as feasible. , while the feasibility of practice room infrastructure is categorized as less feasible.


Author(s):  
Ratna Dewi Br Ginting And Johan Sinulingga

The aim of this study was to find out the pronunciation errors in long vowels in speaking test that have been made by the office administration and travel agency students SMK Negeri 1 Binjai. It was conducted by using qualitative research. The sample of this stufy is 30 students which is from office administration and travel agency students. The instrument of this research is speaking test that recorded in each student. The results shown the total errors in office administration students are 103 while in travel agency students are 118. The percentage of the error of office administration class is 47% and the percentage of the error of travel agency class is 53%. It shown that their ability in speaking test is still low. It was concluded that office administration students are better than travel agency students in speaking.


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