Results of self evaluation profile of Indonesian vocational senior secondary schools

Since 2005, the Directorate of Technical and Vocational Education (DTVE), Ministry of National Education (MONE) Indonesia, has developed an international standard for vocational senior secondary schools (ISVS). One of these standards is to guarantee graduates' competence in their occupation to enable them to be accepted in the work place. The development of the ISVS is dependent on the specific problems in each school, including their culture. To understand the problems and to provide problem solving alternatives, the ISVS needs a self evaluation program. The ISVS measures school performance in Indonesia using 11 indicators and three categories, which are assessed through self evaluation. The categories are 'best', 'good', and 'fair'. The self evaluation program has a scoring of one to three and has been implemented in 179 schools. The Graduate School of Yogyakarta State University (GSYSU) in collaboration with DTVE has prepared the guides used for the self evaluation program; these include an instrument of self evaluation and a guide to fill out the instrument, a guide to analyze data, and a guide to report the result of self evaluation.

Based on the self evaluation findings, a high number of ISVSs achieved highly or 'best' category in four indicators from 11. Similarly, ISVSs that achieved 'good' category have the same indicators as the 'best' category. The last three indicators (the teacher indicator, the educational staff indicator and the accreditation indicator) get the 'fair' category and for the schools in this category require full assistance.

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