Effect of the Project-Work Learning Model to Improve the Quality of Vocational Education in Indonesia

摘要

This study aims to find: (1) the project-work learning model based a characters to improve the quality of vocational education; (2) the effect of the implementation of project-work learning model based a character of the attitudes and achievement of students. This study is a research development continued with the experiment. This research was conducted in the machining industry in the region of Yogyakarta and Central Java and in the Study Program of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Yogyakarta State University, Indonesia. The population of this study were all students who are taking courses complex machining processes, totaling 85 students. These samples included 33 students is determined by purposive sampling technique. Experimental design used is the posttest-only control design. The instrument validation is done by expert judgment. The data were analyzed with descriptive analysis and t-test, with significance level of 0.05. The results showed that: (1) The learning model of project-work based a character suited to improve the quality of learning outcomes in the machining process on vocational higher education; (2) Attitude and achievement of students in the class model is better than the class conventional.