Evaluation of Vocational High School Performance from Student's Opinion

摘要

Vocational secondary education is currently being addressed by various parties. This is related to the government policy that is making serious efforts to empower the vocational secondary education sector with the long-term development plan of 2005-2025 on the change of ratio between Senior High School and Vocational High School which originally 70:30 in 2005 is expected to 30:70 in 2025. Also, the government policy on the revitalization of Vocational High School (SMK) in order to improve the quality and competitiveness of Indonesian Human Resources. A review of the extent to which the school has performed its duties and functions required an evaluation program. This is necessary in order to know the actual condition and performance of the whole school aspect -principals, teachers, education personnel, students, facilities and infrastructure-. It is required a good instrument in order to obtain good results of the evaluation program. A good evaluation instrument is a tool that can snapshot the condition of the object that gives an actual condition so that it needs to investigate the factors that affect school performance. Vocational secondary schools are educational institutions that have many practical activities, of course, performance evaluations need to be distinguished from general secondary schools. The development of the instrument must follow the rules of administering good instrument. Currently, the implementation of evaluation has not shown an evaluation on activities or processes of the whole school aspects. Based on the information obtained from the survey and review the existing evaluation tools, it is reflected that the evaluation still dominant in passive data documents, which still prominent in the form of data documentation than the form of process documentation. In addition, the evaluation is still dominant conducted from the external side. Therefore, in this paper, writer proposed the development of an evaluation instrument that features an internal evaluation and can capture the processes of school activities in realizing their vision and mission. The proposed evaluation involves an internal component of school i.e. students, which students' view of school performance needs to be explored.