Maritime Vocational Research Articles

Examining the Influence of Interpersonal Communication, Leadership Capability, Adaptability, and Excellence on Managerial Competence and Leadership Performance in Maritime Vocational Higher Education

This research aims to explore the impact of interpersonal communication skills, leadership capability, leadership adaptability, and leadership excellence on managerial competence and perceived leadership performance in maritime vocational higher educations. This study is motivated by the suboptimal leadership in maritime vocational higher educations. Additionally, research on leadership performance, particularly in maritime vocational vocational higher educations, is still limited. The study employs a quantitative approach and is causal in nature. Data were collected through questionnaires involving lecturers at maritime vocational higher educations across Indonesia. The sampling technique used is purposive sampling, based on specific criteria. A total of 145 lecturers participated in the study as respondents. The collected data were analyzed using SEM PLS statistical techniques to determine the path coefficients and the significance of the influence between variables. The results show that interpersonal communication skills have a significant effect on perceived leadership performance but not on managerial competence. Conversely, leadership adaptability significantly affects both managerial competence and perceived leadership performance. Leadership excellence also has a significant impact on both variables, while leadership capability does not show a significant effect on managerial competence or perceived leadership performance. The study also finds that managerial competence does not mediate the relationships between leadership capability, leadership adaptability, interpersonal communication skills, and leadership excellence with perceived leadership performance. The implications of this study highlight the importance of developing interpersonal communication skills, adaptability, and leadership excellence for maritime vocational higher educations leaders to enhance their managerial competence and positively influence perceptions of their leadership performance. Practical recommendations include leadership training programs focusing on these areas to prepare more effective and adaptive leaders in facing challenges in the maritime polytechnic education environment.

Digital Competency Development Among merchant Vocational Education Lecturers: An Analysis of Personal and Institutional Factors Influencing Teaching Effectiveness in Indonesian Higher Education

This study examines digital competencies among lecturers in Indonesian Maritime Vocational Colleges, aiming to analyze the relationship between lecturer profiles, institutional factors, and digital competency development. The research objectives focus on understanding how personal characteristics and institutional support mechanisms influence digital teaching capabilities while identifying effective strategies for enhancing digital competencies in maritime vocational education. Through a quantitative approach utilizing a comprehensive survey of lecturers across maritime institutions, the study employs DigCompEdu-based measurement tools to assess ten crucial dimensions of digital competency. The methodology combines questionnaires and structured interviews, analyzing data through confirmatory factor analysis and linear regression. Results reveal that while overall digital competency scores are above average on a Likert scale, significant variations exist across different competency domains. Digital tool usage demonstrates the strongest positive correlation with competency development, followed by attitudes toward technology. The study identifies age as negatively correlated with digital competency, while workload shows an unexpected positive relationship. Institutional factors, including curriculum support and professional development opportunities, significantly influence digital competency development. These findings contribute to understanding digital competency development in vocational education settings and provide practical insights for enhancing digital integration in maritime education institutions.

Developing Leadership and Management Competencies in Maritime Vocational Education: A Qualitative Study

This research investigates the effectiveness of maritime vocational education in developing leadership and management competencies, focusing on ethical decision-making, global competence, and innovation. A qualitative approach was used to gather insights from 24 participants, including maritime professionals, lecturers, graduates, and senior government officers. The results reveal that maritime vocational schools are highly effective in fostering leadership skills, with an overall average score of 9/10 across various indicators. However, graduates indicated a need for more practical, hands-on learning experiences to better transition into professional leadership roles. The study suggests that further collaboration between maritime vocational schools and industry stakeholders is essential to ensure curriculum relevance and alignment with industry demands. By enhancing practical learning opportunities and addressing gaps in leadership training, maritime vocational education can continue to play a critical role in preparing future leaders for the complexities of the global maritime industry.

Embracing Multiliteracies Challenges: Navigating Multimodal Literacy in Maritime Vocational Education with the New London Group Framework

Embracing Multiliteracies Challenges: Navigating Multimodal Literacy in Maritime Vocational Education with the New London Group Framework

The Influence of Work Environment and Turnover Intention on Performance: Evidence From a Maritime Vocational Polytechnic

The Influence of Work Environment and Turnover Intention on Performance: Evidence From a Maritime Vocational Polytechnic

Policy Analysis and Prospects for International Cooperation in China-ASEAN Free Trade Port and Maritime Vocational Education

Policy Analysis and Prospects for International Cooperation in China-ASEAN Free Trade Port and Maritime Vocational Education

From Single Mode to Integrated Parenting: A Study on the Intelligent Level of Student Management and Parenting in Maritime Vocational Characteristics Colleges and Universities by Internet of Things (IoT) Technology

Abstract Student management and nurturing is an important part of the education system of colleges and universities. To address the issue of student management and parenting work in nautical vocational colleges and universities, this paper develops a student management system that utilizes IoT technology. The RFID system, front-end operation and back-end management system in the Internet of Things technology constitute the main structure of the student management system of this paper for nautical vocational colleges and universities, and the system carries out tests such as multi-tag reading time to verify the effectiveness of this paper’s student management system. The density peak clustering algorithm, undersampling algorithm and improved Adaboost algorithm are used to construct the student academic abnormality prediction model, while the K-means clustering algorithm is used to cluster and analyse the students’ consumption behaviour. The DP-2W-Adaboost model constructed in this paper effectively improves the overfitting phenomenon caused by noisy data, and compared with the DP-Adaboost algorithm, the SE value is improved by 7.91%, the SP value is improved by 3.40%, in the F1 value is improved by 9.60%, and in the G-mean metric is improved by 5.39%. 1057 students with real academic abnormality were found by the DP-2W-Adaboost model in the prediction of student academic abnormality. K-means clustering algorithm clusters student consumption behaviour into 3 categories by analyzing the mean value of total student consumption data and single consumption data, which provides data support for student management and parenting work in nautical vocational featured colleges and universities.

China-ASEAN Free Trade Port from a Global Perspective: International Cooperation Mechanism for Maritime Vocational Education

China-ASEAN Free Trade Port from a Global Perspective: International Cooperation Mechanism for Maritime Vocational Education

Increasing Understanding of Legal Responsibilities in Ship Accidents at Sinar Bahari Palembang Shipping Vocational School

Dense maritime activity in Indonesia potentially causes ship accidents such as shipwreck, ship aground, ship collision, and ship on fire. If a ship accident occurs, stakeholders must be legally responsible for any losses from their mistakes during the voyage. This community service activity aims to increase participants’ understanding of legal responsibility for ship accidents to minimize ship accidents in the future. This activity carried out legal counseling using presentation and question and answer methods with 40 participants, consisting of teachers and students at the Sinar Bahari Palembang Maritime Vocational High School. The results of this activity indicate that the implementation of this legal counseling has significantly improved the participants’ understanding. This increased understanding includes shipping security and safety, parties who are legally responsible for ship accidents, the role of the National Transportation Safety Commission in handling ship accidents, and law enforcement in ship accident cases

APPLICATION OF COMPARATIVE TEACHING METHOD BASED ON EMOTION REGULATION AND DRIVE IN SHIP AUXILIARY MACHINERY TEACHING

APPLICATION OF COMPARATIVE TEACHING METHOD BASED ON EMOTION REGULATION AND DRIVE IN SHIP AUXILIARY MACHINERY TEACHING

Study on Internationalization of Maritime Vocational Education in the New Era

"The Belt and Road Initiative" poses a great challenge for the internationalization of maritime vocational education and COVID-19 pandemic has a great impact on it. This paper analyses the problems existing in the internationalization of maritime vocational education in China, including poor awareness of internationalization, lack of internationalized English teachers, campus culture and legal system of maritime education a well as difficulty in carrying out Sino-foreign cooperation project. Based on the above analysis, it proposes several development strategies, i.e., enhancing international awareness, paying attention to the cultivation of students' intercultural communication skills, strengthening the construction of internationalized teachers, creating an internationalized campus culture, establishing the legal system of navigation education, setting up training institutions, exploring a new mode of Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools and developing education for overseas students.

Study on Bridging between Basic English and Specialized English in Maritime Vocational College

English is the work language for seafarers and should be given due attention in maritime vocational colleges. In Chinese maritime colleges and universities, English is usually divided into two phases. In the first phase, students will learn basic English with topics related to daily life, while in the second phase, students will learn professional English related to professional knowledge. This article first discusses bridging problems between basic English and specialized English in maritime vocational college from the perspectives of curriculum, text books and teachers, analyses reasons for them and then puts forward corresponding strategies, including optimizing curriculum, innovating text books, integrating teachers, and adopting OBE-based English teaching reform.

ANALISIS AKUNTANSI PENERIMAAN DAN PENGELUARAN KAS PADA SMK MARITIM BATAM

ABSTRAK
 
 
 The purpose in this research is to know the procedures of Cash Receipt Accounting at Batam Maritime Vocational School, know the application of Cash Expenditure Accounting in Batam Maritime Vocational School and know the effectiveness of Cash Receipt and Expenditure Accounting in Batam Maritime Vocational School.
 The subject of the study is SMK Maritim Batam and the object of this research is Cash Receipt Accounting and Cash Expenditure Accounting. The data collection methods used are documentation methods and interview methods. The method used to describe problems related to the Cash Receipt Accounting procedure and the Cash Expenditure Accounting procedure is a descriptive analysis method.
 The results of this study show that: (1) The Application of Cash Receipt Accounting in Batam Maritime Vocational School has not been good enough. The functions related in the implementation of the Cash Receipt Accounting System are the cashier's part, the treasurer's part. The documents used are proof of cash acceptance, student payment notebooks. The accounting records used are general journals, cash books. (2) The application of Cash Expenditure Accounting in Batam Maritime Vocational School has not been good enough. The functions related in the implementation of Cash Expenditure Accounting are the cashier's part, the treasurer's part, the Principal. The documents used are proof of cash expenditure, financing approval letter, notes and invoices. The accounting records used are general journals, ledgers, cash books. (3) Accounting of Cash Receipts and Expenditures in Maritime SmK has not been effective enough.

DP 0261 - Blue Amazon Management System (SisGAAz): Sovereignty, Surveillance and Defense of the Brazilian Jurisdictional Waters

Brazil is a country with a maritime vocation, whose development is intrinsically associated with the sea. The Brazilian coast and jurisdictional waters’ extension constitute a challenge on themselves to the national defense. The presence of fundamental potentialities for the country, such as valuable natural resources, important urban centers and large population concentrations along the coast, and communication routes underline the importance of watching and protecting this area, called Blue Amazon. In order to provide adequate means to protect this large area, the Navy has developed strategic programs. One of these programs is the Blue Amazon Management System (SisGAAz), which currently goes through a reformulation due to the country’s budgetary restraints. This study aims to demonstrate the importance of developing and implementing SisGAAz to monitor the Blue Amazon. It also discusses the implications of its reformulation, as well as the possible alternatives.

The Effect of Task Tepetition on Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency of Indonesian Maritime Vocational School Students’ Speaking Performance

Developments in the area of task-based language teaching (TBLT) research have focused on the task implementation factors in that they effectively promote successful language performances. The present study aimed to examine the effect of task repetition on the speaking performances of students who studied English Specific Purposes at an Indonesian Maritime Vocational School. To this end, a pre- and post-test quasi-experimental design was applied that involved 43 participants, who were non-randomly selected and considered as two groups of the experimental and control ones. Both groups took a pre-test to ensure their homogeneity in speaking skill. For 12 sessions, the experimental group was engaged in repetitive practice of speaking tasks. Three weeks after the end of the treatment, both groups performed the two post-tests. The results of independent samples t-tests showed that the experimental group significantly outperformed their counterparts in the control group in terms of task complexity on the two post-test phases (p<.05). However, they did not differ significantly in terms of accuracy.

Navigation Lamp Model on Maritime Vocational Education Integrated With STEM Approach: Analysis and Design

The application of knowledge to practical in engineering maritime of vocational education for professional practice. Engineer faced the problems are intimately tied up with design. The aim of this research is develop navigation lamp model on the ship with STEM approach by engineer cadets. The research method was used analysis study and design for cadets applied in practice before on shipboard. Navigation lamp model built consist of anchor light, masthead light, towing light, and side light. Analysis of navigation light base on rules of COLREGs about light and shapes. Navigation lamp built as miniature model with source of energy from solar cell 50 WP and the electric usage controller added for charge and load of the lamp. Both charge and load are measured with digital volt/ampere meter. We obtained for the conclusion that engineering cadets understand of rules of COLOREGs about light and shapes which can built from miniature models with PV solar cell as source energy.

The Impact of IUU Fishing Policy (Moratorium License of Fishery Commerce) to the level of Employment of Maritime and Fishery Vocational Schools Graduates

The limited capacity of human resources (HR) that is competent in their field often causes the less than optimal utilization of the marine and fisheries resources in Indonesia. Maritime and Fishery Vocational Schools (MFVS) can be the solution to this problem, as they are expected to generate capable and competitive human resources; thus, utilizing and sustainably managing the vast marine resources in Indonesia, and in turn improving the efforts taken to advance Indonesian people’s welfare. However, the level of employment for MFVS graduates in Indonesia is still limited to large scale fishing activities. Additionally, since the launch of Moratorium License of Fishery Commerce of Fishery States in the Republic of Indonesia (56/PERMEN-KP/2014) by the Indonesian Ministry of Marine and Fisheries (IMMaF), most fishery companies have ceased to operate. The study aimed to determine the impact caused by this regulation against the level of employment of MFVS graduates, as well as the scheme of policies that should be applied to maximize the human resources in the field of marine and fisheries. This research used a qualitative method, where the descriptive analysis was used as a primary tool of analysis. The results of the analysis indicated that the trend of employment of MFVS graduates shifted after the enactment of this policy. The lack of synergy between policies in the field of marine and fisheries and policies in the field of education and transportation resulted in the difficulty of MFVS graduates to achieve a good career in this field..

The Modeling Framework for the Need of Training Ship on Maritime Vocational Education

The seafarer’s profession will be facing a few strong challenges today and future next. Correspondingly, the Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW) requires tightly the maritime vocational education that must produce graduates with appropriate and needed competences related with international trade perspective in the shipping sector. In order to improve student skill, a training ship is needed by maritime vocational education as real practice for student. This research describes a modeling framework of basic ship design for training ship of the maritime vocational education. The modeling framework was divided into three parts namely the model of training ship type selection, the capacity of the training ship, and the main dimensions of the training ship design. The modeling framework was applied to Maritime Polytechnic of AMI Makassar as a case study. The research results show the selected type ship was passenger-cargo ship type 37.20. The capacity of the training ship was about 150 students with cargo capacity 50 ton. The main dimensions of the training ship design were obtained where length between perpendiculars (Lbp), breadth (B), height (H), and draft (T) were 72.00 m, 12.00 m, 5.50 m, and 2.53 m respectively. The main dimensions of the training ship design were corrected as well by the parameters of main dimension ratio, geometric form coefficient, weight, and initial static stability.

Blue Amazon: Brazil’s Maritime Vocation

Blue Amazon: Brazil’s Maritime Vocation

STEM for Establishing Energy Literacy in Maritime Vocational Education

The development of new and renewable energy is an essential issue in the 21 st century that must be delivered to the community, and maritime vocational education has an urgency on the energy literacy for ship engineering cadets. However, learning about energy for engineering cadets still lacks attention. The purpose of this paper is to describe energy literacy, which is reviewed based on the cognitive and affective aspects of cadets in maritime vocational education. This research used the quasi-experiment method, which a total of 61 engineering cadets learned about energy use using the STEM approach. From the results was found that although the achievement of understanding energy literacy from pre-test to post-test score with a small increase but the attitude of cadets towards the importance energy education has 76%, energy-saving attitude on ships 71%, the use of renewable energy 68%, rules on energy use according to ANNEX it must be obeyed is 71%. These results illustrate that it is necessary to continue and add of learning time to increase the cognitive aspects of energy literacy and to improve awareness of the cadets' attitudes about the importance of saving energy and its utilization.