Grade Of Vocational High School Research Articles

Validity and Reliability of Teacher-Made English Summative Test at Second Grade of Vocational High School 2 Palopo

This research aimed to find out the validity and reliability of the English summative test for the second grade of Vocational High School 2 Palopo. The research applied mix-method design (Qualitative-Quantitative). The researcher analyzed the data using validity and reliability formula by Suharsimi Arikunto and Kuder-Richardson’s. There were 40 multiple choice questions of English summative test. This research used expert judgement as validator to analyzed and commented the validity and reliability of English summative test made by the English teacher at second grade of Vocational high school 2 Palopo. The result indicated that the test items of English summative test at second grade of Vocational High School 2 Palopo had good content validity. Based on the percentage, the researcher found that the English summative test was 80% valid in terms of its conformity with the indicators. The items tests that represent the suggested indicators in the syllabus were 32 items and the inconformity items were 8 items. The reliability of English summative test was 0.6132. It means that the reliability of English summative test was in classification into the high level (0.60-0.799).

The mathematical creative thinking ability viewed from learning interest in eleventh grade of vocational high school by using treffinger model assisted by problem card

The mathematical creative thinking ability viewed from learning interest in eleventh grade of vocational high school by using treffinger model assisted by problem card

A STUDY OF STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL THROUGH VLOG

Vlog is one of the popular technology or social media which can be used as an instructional. According to Parker and Preiffer (2005) that vlog is currents video blog are essentially text blogs with externally linked videos for each entry. This research examined a study of students’ speaking skill through vlog to tenth grade of vocational high school. this research aimed to find out the implementation of learning speaking through vlog, to examine the strengths and the weaknesses of learning speaking through vlog, to investigate the responses given by students toward of learning speaking through vlog. The research was conducted in SMK Al-Fathonah Cianjur. The participant of this research was the students in tenth grade. This research used qualitative research: a study case. The research used non-participants classroom observation, interview, and questionnaire. The classroom observations were conducted three meetings. The interview and questionnaire were conducted after doing observation. Interview involved four students and questionnaire involved all students (20 students). The results showed that vlog can help them in learning speaking and foster their speaking skill. Further, the students were very enthusiastic in learning speaking through vlog. Vlog is suitable for learning speaking and narrative text material. Learning speaking through vlog is more flexible. However, students should have adequate facilities to learn speaking through vlog. Students gave positive responses of implementation learning speaking through vlog is fun, interesting and make students motivated to improve their speaking skills. Based on the findings, vlog can only be implemented in learning speaking at the intermediate and upper level such as junior high school, senior high school or vocational high school, and university.

A CONTENT ANALYSIS ON THE ENGLISH FOR VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL TEXTBOOK

This article aims to describe the quality of the textbook “English for Vocational High School III,” an English textbook for the third grade of vocational high school, which is written by Yiyis Krisnani and is published by LP2IP Yogyakarta, viewed from the compatibility of the tasks with the curriculum, Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan (KTSP), and their level of communicativeness. The compatibility is identified from the availability of the materials demanded by the indicators in the curriculum and how well the activities developed the learners’ mastery of the materials. The level of communicativeness is based on the classification of communicative activities proposed by Littlewood (1981) that consists of three levels: 1) pre-communicative, functional communication, and social interaction activities. The result of the analysis shows that the compatibility of the tasks with the curriculum is good; 66.67% of the indicators in the curriculum are developed in this book. The level of communicativeness of this book is fair; only 41.67% of the types of communicative activities proposed by Littlewood are developed.

STUDI ANALISIS GAYA BELAJAR SISWA YANG MENGACU MODEL GRASHA-REICHMANN PADA MATA PELAJARAN KELOMPOK KEJURUAN KELAS X SMK KOMPETENSI KEAHLIAN TEKNIK GAMBAR BANGUNAN

This study was aimed to know the representation that refers to students' learning styles of Grasha Model-Reichmann in vocational subjects of 10th Grade of Vocational High School (VHS), Competency of Architecture Engineering. The study lasted from April to May 2015.This research is using a descriptive quantitative survey approach. The population in this study were all 10th students of 26 and 52 VHS of Jakarta with a total of 122 people. The sampling method is using the saturated sampling techniques with a total of 122 people. The techniques used for data collection are communication techniques and documentation. The instrument for students that are used in the form of a questionnaire from a total of 60 statements refers to Grasha-Reichmann Student Learning Style (GRSLS). The result is that there are 49 number of valid statement with very high reliability of (r11) = 0.96.Based on the research that has been done, the students' learning styles that is mainly used to the Subject of Building Construction is the collaborative learning style (78.93%), collaborative learning style (80.00%) for the Measure Soil Science Subjects, collaborative learning style (78.50%) for the Engineering Mechanics Subject, and participant learning styles (75.66%) for the Subject of engineering drawings.Results of interviews with teachers indicate that the Subject Building Construction, Measure Soil Science and Engineering Mechanics during the learning process using lecture while teaching style to the Subject engineering drawings using peer tutors. The difference between the student's learning style with teachers teaching style shows the results obtained by each student also had differences.

The Levels Of Vocational High School Students’ Perception Of Mathe- matical Terms

In this study, we dwell on the determination of the levels of readiness fort he classes of Mathematics I and Mathematics II perception type of mathematical terms acquired in the process of primary and secondary education of the students who have newly attended to Vocational High School. In this frame, the model of the study made up of 112 students attending to the first grade of Vocational High School. To collect data, we applied a test with 7 open-ended questions with the pur- pose of determining their readiness levels. In analysis of the data, we made use of frequence and percentage tables and we gave place to some of their answers as they are. According to the results of the research, we determined that most of the students are lack of mathematical background. As a result of this, we have conculuded that their readiness levels of Mathematics I and Mathematics II that they take in higher education is low. Besides we have determined that they have some misconception in literature and learning difficulties. According to the results obtained, the curriculum of mathematics in Vocational High Schools should be revised as to the mathematics levels of the students.