Developing the Teaching Factory Learning Model to Prepare the Students of Vocational High School in Facing Global Competitions

摘要

There is a miss match between competencies obtained from Vocational High Schools and those required by the business and industrial world. To face global competition, ASEAN Economic Community free markets and Revolution Industry 4.0, Vocational High Schools should develop their learning models to achieve competencies which link and match with those required by the working world. One model to develop is the teaching factory learning model. The purpose of this research is to develop Teaching Factory learning model at Vocational High Schools. This study employs Research and Development (R&D). The research results in developing the teaching factory learning model show that the industrial atmosphere is well created at schools. The increase is tested for its significance using t-test that the result shows that p-score = <0.05 = α. It means that the increase is significant with the confidence level of 95%. Thus, the implementation of teaching factory learning method helps the students to reach their competences with the scores above 70. Those competencies encourage the students to confidently face the global competitions, ASEAN Economic Community free markets, and the Revolution Industry 4.0.