Developing instrument for assessing student collaboration in vocational high schools

Abstract

Assessment of the student collaboration of Vocational High School (VHS) in practical learning does not yet have special instruments. This study aims to develop instruments on the assessment of student collaboration VHS. This study used the Research and Development theoretical research method which has the 7 steps of development, (1) conducting a theoretical study on indicators of student collaboration; (2) arranging blue print; (3) validating by expert; (4) testing the instrument; (5) analysing the data; (6) revising the instrument; (7) compile the final instrument. Instrument review was carried out by 9 expert. Based on the results by the expert it was found that all items were valid and could be carried out for testing. The instrument test was conducted on 211 student respondents at level X, XI, and XII VHS from various skill programs in several cities in Indonesia. The distribution of questionnaires was carried out by online using the Google form application. The student's collaboration instrument was experienced three analyses. The results showed that there are 29 good items where showed the KMO value is 0.859, the Cronbach Alpha reliability value is 0.870, the total variance explained is 65, 553%, and the instrument indicator becomes 7 new indicators.