Track: Global Business Management Education

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the implementation of vocational education programs in vocational madrasah aliyah (madrasah aliyah plus keterampilan) in Central Java. This study was very important because madrasah aliyah (MA) is not an institution focusing on vocational education. Vocational education program was given to provide students with practical skills needed to succeed in workplace or as an entrepreneurs, because most MA graduates were not enrolled in college. Context, input, process, product, and outcome (CIPPO) methods were used to evaluate 14 out of 18 vocational madrasahs in Central Java. The results were as follow: (1) vocational MA had excellent readiness performing the vocational education program; (2) the aspect of process was assessed as satisfactory; (3) the quality of products and graduates was less satisfactory, subject to improvements; (4) the outcome aspect was assessed as satisfactory, vocational education programs gave benefits to stakeholders (students, busines fileds, and industries). Overal, the vocational education program held by madrasah aliyah had a good performance score and could be furtherly improved.