Improving The Performance of Alumni Achievement Assessment by Integrating Website-Based Tracer Study Information Systems and Telegram API

Abstract

<jats:p>It is the mission of Vocational High School (SMK) education in Indonesia to produce highly competitive and skilled graduates. One standard for evaluating the success of vocational education is assessing the achievements of alumni. The evaluation process can be carried out with programmed alumni tracking activities or commonly known as tracer studies. However, the implementations of tracer studies that have been carried out by vocational schools in Kediri are still using the manual method. These conditions make the school find many obstacles in the implementation of tracer studies. Some schools have used technology with e-mail applications but have financial constraints. This research aims to improve the performance of assessing the alumni achievement of Vocational Schools in Kediri by integrating the website-based tracer study information system with social media Telegram API. Usability testing that gave 4.83 of 5 scales has shown that the integration can improve the performance and benefits of an application compared to the application before integration</jats:p>

Tracer Study Berbasis Teknologi Informasi dan Psikologi

“…Perlu dilakukan sosialisasi lebih lanjut khususnya pada alumni agar pemanfaatan hasil tracer study dapat dimanfaatkan oleh pengguna jasa sehingga dapat memberikan masukan yang penting bagi sekolah untuk pengembangan pemantapan karir kesiapan lulusan dalam menghadapi dunia kerja. Kedepan perlu juga sejumlah workshop (1) Pengembangan sistem tracer study yang dihubungkan dengan sejumlah messenger (Sucipto, Dewi, Resti, & Santi, 2020) seperti WhatsApp, Telegram, dll. untuk meningkatkan komunikasi dengan para alumni; (2) Peningkatan wawasan siswa sehubungan dengan ragam bidang pengetahuan di perguruan tinggi (Kadiyono, Wibowo, Sulistiobudi, Nurshinta, & Oriza, 2021).…”

Kajian Penyempurnaan Kurikulum Program Studi Ilmu Komunikasi Universitas Terbuka Dari Sudut Pandang Alumni dan Pengguna Lulusan

“…Rancangan pengumpulan data dilakukan untuk mengetahui hal-hal yang harus dilakukan sebelum survai ke lapangan, mencakup identifikasi kebutuhan data, pemilihan teknik analisis dan metode pengumpulan data studi. Metode pengumpulan data berupa survai lapangan, wawancara, kuesioner dan kombinasi ketiganya (Aristi, 2019;Sucipto et al,2020). Selain itu, karakteristik suatu populasi diketahui dengan pengambilan contoh melalui pengamatan untuk memberikan data dan informasi.…”

Socialization of e-Tracer Study for College Alumni

“…The results of the search study can be used as a measuring tool to see the competencies of the world of work, the shortcomings of graduates, the weaknesses of the curriculum that has been used so far, and the expectations of alumni towards their alma mater related to future education [3]. The development of this tracer study can also analyze the results of graduate and graduate users and will later produce a recommendation from the achievement of alumni tracking [4,5]. Previously, the service team had conducted research related to the design of the tracer study, but the alumni's lack of understanding regarding graduate mapping caused the e-tracer study application to not be fully completed.…”