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Development Of Web-Based Interactive Multimedia For Human Resource Management Learning In Vocational High Schools, Anis Susanti, Wiedy Murtini, Harini Harini

Jurnal Pendidikan Vokasi

The purpose of this study is to find out the feasibility and the effectiveness of web-based interactive multimedia called EMMASY. This multimedia was developed for learning automation of the personnel administration in vocational high schools. The type of this research is a research and development using the design of learning multimedia development from Alessi and Trollip which includes planning, design, and development. At the development stage, alpha test was conducted by the experts of media and materials to determine the feasibility followed by beta test by the users to find out the usefulness and summative test to find out the …

The Competency-Based Training Model For Vocational High School Teachers From Electrical Expertise Programs, Muhammad Nasir Malik, S. Soenarto, Fx. Sudarsono

Jurnal Pendidikan Vokasi

The study was to generate a valid, practical and effective competence-based training model for the electricity program vocational high school teachers. The type of the study was research and development that referred to the development stages proposed by Plomp. The data gathering instrument for the study consisted of: (1) validation sheet; (2) observation sheet; and (3) response questionnaire for the training participants and the trainers. In order to measure the level of reliability and the level of agreement consistency among the raters, the researcher implemented the Cohen's Kappa coefficient statistics has a minimum value of ‰¥ 0.70. The subjects of …

Penerapan Problem Based Learning Untuk Higher Order Thinking Skills Pada Siswa Pendidikan Teknik Informatika, Satriyo Agung Dewanto, Eko Marpanaji, Muh. Izzudin Mahali, Nur Hasanah, Bekti Wulandari

Elinvo (Electronics, Informatics, and Vocational Education)

This research has purpose to know the difference between student learning result with computer network practice course and higher order thinking skill (HOTS) given by demonstration method with problem based learning (PBL) method. This research is a research using quasi experiment consisting of two classes as sample. The one class uses the demonstration learning method, while the other class uses the PBL method. This study has an analysis using t-test. the result of this research is able to show there is difference between student learning outcomes with high thinking ability in computer network practice class among students given demonstration method …

Analisis Dan Desain Media Pembelajaran Praktik Teknik Digital Sesuai Rps, Ghia Pisti Cikarge, Pipit Utami

Elinvo (Electronics, Informatics, and Vocational Education)

Mulai kurikulum 2014, Mata Kuliah Praktik Teknik Digital memiliki tambahan beberapa cakupan materi dari Mata Kuliah Praktik Teknik Digital II. Dampak dari hal tersebut adalah berkurangnya waktu pembelajaran untuk penguasaan suatu materi. Oleh karena itu, perlu ada strategi khusus untuk mengatasi hal tersebut, salah satunya melalui pengembangan media pembelajaran. Tujuan makalah ini untuk menyajikan spesifikasi media pembelajaran pada Mata Kuliah Praktik Teknik Digital Prodi D3 Teknik Elektronika UNY hasil analisis dan desain. Analisis dilakukan secara mendalam terkait Audience, Objective, Task, dan Media Analysis. Analisis dan desain dilakukan dengan beberapa metode, yaitu: observasi, wawancara, angket dan dilanjutkan dengan FGD. Hasil …

Upaya Meningkatkan Profesionalisme Guru Melalui Pelatihan Penelitian Tindakan Kelas Di Smk Muhammadiyah 1 Bantul, Sigit Pambudi

Elinvo (Electronics, Informatics, and Vocational Education)

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah meningkatkan profesionalisme guru melalui pelatihan dan implementasinya tentang Penelitian Tindakan Kelas (PTK). Pelatihan diikuti 25 guru terdiri guru normatif, adaftip dan produktip. Kegiatan pelatihan meliputi ceramah, diskusi, penyusunan proposal dan pendampingan pelaksanaan PTK. Materi pelatihan meliputi: (1) Permasalahan Pembelajaran Vokasional di Indonesia, (2) Penggalian Masalah Penelitian, (3) Penyusunan Proposal Penelitian Tindakan, (4) Penyusunan Laporan Penelitian Tindakan Kelas, (5) Ragam Karya Ilmiah dan (6) Penyusunan Jurnal Hasil Penelitian. Kegiatan pelatihan secara keseluruhan dapat terlaksana dengan baik. Guru-guru jadi lebih termotivasi dalam melakukan PTK karena lebih memahami terkait model dan implementasi PTK. Tanggapan guru terhadap pelaksanaan pelatihan: (1) …

Studi Penelusuran Alumni Teknik Elektronika D3 Sebagai Upaya Peningkatan Mutu Penyelenggaraan Program Studi, Nuryake Fajaryati, Djoko Santoso, Sri Waluyanti, Ahmad Awaluddin Baiti

Elinvo (Electronics, Informatics, and Vocational Education)

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimana profil lulusan Profi D3 Teknik Elektronika, penilaian alumni mengenai mutu penyelenggaraan program yang ada di Prodi D3 Teknik Elektronika, dan penilaian stakeholders terhadap kompetensi lulusan prodi D3 Teknik Elektronika.

Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian penelusuran alumni dengan pendekatan analisis deskriptif kuantitatif.pelaksanaan tracer study dilakukan dengan konsep tahapan survey menurut Schomburg, yaitu tahap 1 pengembangan konsep dan instrumen, tahap 2 pengumpulan data, dan tahap 3 analisa data serta penulisan laporan. Sumber data dalam penelitian ini adalah 55 orang alumni Prodi D3 Teknik Elektronika dan 10 orang pengguna alumni (stakeholders) Metode pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan …

Survey And Focus Groups Of Students Enrolled In Australian Vocational Education And Training (Vet) Offshore: Final Report, Justin Brown, Wei Buttress, Darren Matthews

Vocational, adult and professional education research

As part of the Australian Government’s National Strategy for International Education 2025, the Department of Education and Training commissioned the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) to provide an overview of the demographics and experiences of students enrolled in Australian vocational education and training (VET) offshore. The research findings are based on: (1) analysis of quantitative data collected through the first ever global survey of students enrolled in Australian VET courses overseas; and (2) analysis of qualitative data collected through a series of focus groups with students located in two Chinese provinces.

Importance Of Transition Planning, Jennifer L. Mattheis

Dissertations, Theses, and Projects

Title: Importance of Transition Planning

Purposed Study:

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the teacher, parent and student awareness of transition plans in the high school setting through trends. A transition plan can be summarized as a set of goals and guidelines in efforts to set a student up for individualized independence, that reflects their goals and their desired life choices post high school. Specifically, the research will look at Transition Plans from students, grades 10-12, in the general classroom with In-Class Support, students in Resource and students in Life Skills. Each support level has its own Special …

The Role Of Virtual Communication Platforms In Academically Supporting Post-Secondary Students, Eldora M. Fosmire

CUP Ed.D. Dissertations

While many consider college students to be digital natives, who are at ease with multiple forms of technology, many of these students do not adapt these skills for academic purposes. Retention concerns for college students often prompt support staff to seek out and adopt technology approaches to promote completion. This study provided a virtual learning platform to deliver academic support and sought to promote learning community interaction for rural and urban post-secondary students. A subset of vocational major programs that prepare students for employment after completion served as a participant pool. However, participants in the study chose not to use …

Community College Students’ Perceived Value Of High School Career And Technical Education Program Experiences, Martin Douglass

CUP Ed.D. Dissertations

The goal of this qualitative, narrative inquiry study was to explore the voices of community college students who have taken Career and Technical Education (CTE) while in high school, investigate if they perceived value from their high school CTE classes, and determine how those experiences impacted their high school and college educations (cf. Association for Career and Technical Education, 2016; American Institutes for Research, 2013; Southern Regional Education Board, 2008). The central research question for the dissertation was: What value do local community college students believe their high school Career and Technical Education program participation provided? The screening survey had …

English For Baking: Lessons For Kitchen Workers Using On-Site Learning, Christopher Torossian

Master's Projects and Capstones

Today, the back of house staff in culinary kitchens is comprised largely by migrant workers whose native language is something other than English. At times this can create issues among workers due to communication errors or complete lack of communication all together, posing issues for not only cooking, but it can also be a threat to kitchen safety as well. Additionally, due to native speaker stigma surrounding non-native speakers of English, many workers are often denied the chance at a higher position in the workplace simply because of their low communicative competence, despite their actual talents and skills in the …

Unspoken Barriers: An Autoethnographic Study Of Frustration, Resistance And Resilience, Rose M. Wake

The Qualitative Report

Immigration, cultural capital, cultural hybridity are the contributing players within my autoethnographic research as a second-generation daughter of southern Italian migrants from the post war era. This autobiography of my lived experience identifies contributing influences of arrested development within my educational and life trajectory and explores theoretical frameworks as key comparative indicators for my thwarted stages of psychosocial development. My identity and role as a female is further explored within the construct of a determined and culturally hybrid adolescence in an effort to answer research questions of identity and role confusion. My narratives situate my life as a daughter, student, …

Graduate Internship In Agriculture Education, Melissa C. Stegall

Agricultural Education: Graduate Internship Reports

This internship and project report includes validation documents required in meeting the quality criteria for secondary-level programs of instruction in agriculture. The documents are concurrently used for the Agriculture Incentive Grant review process at Los Molinos High School conducted by representatives of the California Department of Education. The supporting material includes information to receive state and local funding, outline the goals and objectives of the program, along with an overview of Los Molinos High School, the agriculture program and the community. This report specializes in Agriculture Mechanics and building pathway curriculum.

Using An Engineering Design Process To Bring The Local Community Into The Technology And Engineering Education Classroom, James M. Baker

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

This plan B project documents the practice of using an authentic project to teach an engineering design process to high school pre-engineering students and documenting the project preparing a manuscript for journal publication.

The manuscript prepared for publication explores the details of working with local business owners and teachers from different departments and curricular foci to design, fabricate, and install an illuminated sign for a local business. This sign project was presented by an alum of the school to provide an authentic project for multiple courses to collaboratively create a solution for a local community business. Twenty-five students in two …

Basic Academic Skills And Post-Secondary Technical Education, Janet Humphreys Latimer

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine if there is a significant difference in WorkKeys score, skills score, theory score, and job placement rates as compared by credential and program of study at a technical college in Tennessee. The study used data retrieved from a WorkKeys database and SIMS (Student Information Management System) at a technical college. The population consisted of 445 students in seven programs from 2010-2016 who had participated in the WorkKeys online academic training modules.

The dependent variables for the study were WorkKeys score, skill score, and theory score. The independent variables were job placement …

A Phenomenological Exploration Of Career Progression Among Culinary School Graduates, Anthony Joseph Padavan

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this experiential phenomenological study was to describe the experience of a formal culinary education and its impact on job placement, job satisfaction, and career progression for culinary school graduates who are also members of the American Culinary Federation (ACF). The theory guiding this study was experientialism focusing on construction of knowledge as proposed by Kolb’s experiential learning theory. Kolb’s theory directly relates to the vocational nature of the culinary profession and helped to answer the research question: How do participants value a culinary education in relationship to job placement, job satisfaction, and overall career progression? The sample …

Why Career And Technical Education Teachers Contribute Intellectual Capital To Open Education Repositories: A Case Study, Kelley J. Manley

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

High quality Career and Technical Education (CTE) teachers are necessary in order to prepare students to fill the gap in the nation’s technical workforce. Technical skills taught by high school CTE teachers assist students as they continue their education in post-secondary technical schools. Post-secondary CTE teachers assist students in their preparation for future high-wage, high-demand technical careers. One of the many challenges reported by CTE teachers is the time-consuming development of relevant curriculum. The open education resource (OER) movement has been reported in research to alleviate some of these challenges for teachers, but research is lacking in the area of …

Effect Of Flipped Classroom On Learning Management Systems And Face-To-Face Learning Environments On Students' Gender, Interest And Achievement In Accounting, Ernest O. Ugwoke, Nathaniel Ifeanyi Edeh, Joseph C. Ezemma

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

There are several factors that influence students learning and academic achievement. Some of the factors include motivation, interest, learning environment, level of student-student, teacher-student interaction and collaboration nature of assessment processes and feedback etc. However, literature has revealed that students’ interest and academic achievement can be improved if modern technology is integrated into teaching and learning process. The major purpose of this study is to determine the effects of flipped classroom model on learning management systems (LMS) and f2f learning environments on students' achievement and interest in accounting. The design of the study is quasi-experimental. The study used intact classes …

Problem-Based Learning In Professional Studies From The Physiotherapy Students’ Perspective, Hilkka Korpi, Liisa Peltokallio, Arja Piirainen

Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning

The aim of the study was to investigate how physiotherapy students using a problem-based learning approach develop into experts during higher education, and answers the question: How do physiotherapy students at bachelor’s level understand the problem-based learning approach while learning to become professionals? PBL is examined using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) of longitudinal data written by 15 voluntary students from two different higher education institutions and collected during 3.5 years. The main results on the new way of learning strengthen earlier conceptions of the importance of reflection in the learning process. The PBL method activates a reflection process by allowing …

The Significance Of Articulating An Institution’S Intellectual Distinctions In Response To The Crisis Of The Liberal Arts, Christian Teeter

Journal of Educational Research and Practice

This case study details an investigation to gain greater insight about the intellectual distinctions that prevail within the academic environment at Crestline College, a pseudonym for an eastern institution of higher learning, in support of the significance of a liberal arts education. While many graduates of Crestline report satisfaction with their academic experience, many alumni volunteers have felt more work could be done to explain the exact nature of what makes Crestline strong academically, articulating the practical value of a liberal arts education. Developing a compelling argument for a strong vision for academics would help reinforce the value and importance …