Development of Industrial Work Practices With Work-Based Learning (WBL) in Vocational High Schools

Kamaruzaman Kamaruzaman,Jalius Jama,Nizwardi Jalinus

doi:10.29037/digitalpress.46384

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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop models of the implementation of industrial work practices in vocational high schools with work-based learning models that are valid, practical, and effective in improving the quality of fieldwork. This research was conducted in three Vocational High Schools in the Electronics Engineering major with 84 students and 10 supervisors. Data on the quality of fieldwork is obtained through performance observation sheets and assessment of structured task reports during the industrial work practice process. Analysis of the data in this study uses descriptive statistics to get the quality of the interpretation of the validity and practicality of model development and the level of performance achievements of respondents. The results showed that the development of the WBL training model was interpreted to be very valid with a value of 0.95 and very practical with a practicality percentage of 95.67%. In addition, the WBL model is more effective in improving the quality of fieldwork in terms of knowledge, professional attitudes, work mental readiness, and student independence in the model class significantly higher than conventional classes.

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Industrial revolution 4.0 is a challenge that must be faced in the world of education because technological development is very rapid coupled with the trend of combining automation technology with cyber (Ragulina, Alekseev, Strizhkina, & Tumanov, 2019; Rohman, Fauzan, & Yohandri, 2020; Schuh, Gartzen, Rodenhauser, & Marks, 2015)
To test the effectiveness of this study the samples came from three vocational high schools, namely SMK 1 West Sumatra, SMK 1 Padang, and SMK 5 Padang, majoring in Electronics Engineering
It can be explained that in the implementation of the work-based learning (WBL) model for fieldwork training in several research samples, researchers found that students of SMK 1 West Sumatra tended to be better able to carry out their tasks independently. This condition was relevant to the achievements of the fieldwork which showed that 45 % of SMK 1 West Sumatra students who follow the fieldwork practices with the WBL model have a very good category

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Industrial revolution 4.0 is a challenge that must be faced in the world of education because technological development is very rapid coupled with the trend of combining automation technology with cyber (Ragulina, Alekseev, Strizhkina, & Tumanov, 2019; Rohman, Fauzan, & Yohandri, 2020; Schuh, Gartzen, Rodenhauser, & Marks, 2015) This condition will have an impact on education including digital automation, collaboration, and flexibility which causes changes in the workings of the younger generation and part of the work that will be replaced by robots (Jalinus, 2011; Schuh et al, 2015). The monitoring carried out on industrial work practices activities has not been effective because there are still many of the supervisors who when monitoring are not seriously communicating with industry instructors related to student work activities in the industry and the progress of competencies that have been learned

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