Development of Mobile Android-Based Tracer Study to Improve Graduate Quality in Creating an Independent Campus
at Serambi Mekkah University
Susmanto1*, Munawir2, Samsuddin3
1,2,3
Universitas Serambi Mekkah
*Corresponding Author: [email protected]
Abstract
Tracer Study is a service provided by higher education institutions to track alumni who have graduated, which can later be used as an assessment. Accreditation of graduates aims to determine educational output in the form of a transition from the world of education to the world of work.
Dikti is currently pioneering the complications of the National tracer study data, especially regarding the transition and job position of university graduates in Indonesia. Tracer study at the University of Serambi Mekkah is considered important because it becomes a tool for evaluating the performance of higher education institutions and becomes an assessment by the National Accreditation Board for Higher Education (BAN-PT). The online tracer study has been implemented by Dikti since 2011, but not all universities have conducted an online tracer study system. The Tracer Study of the University of Serambi Mekkah is intended to trace the traces of graduates / alumni carried out 2 years after graduation and aims to find out, educational outcomes in the form of the first job search process, last work situation and application of competencies in the world of work in accordance with the skill areas that have been obtained, output of education is self-assessment of mastery and acquisition of competence, educational process in the form of evaluation of the learning process and the contribution of higher education to the acquisition of competence. Alumni tracking has been carried out by universities through a website-based application at http://tracerstudy.serambimekkah.ac.id. The purpose of this study from the observations that it still has many shortcomings including, the use of functions in the application has not run well as a graduate user and as a solution in this study developing an Android-based Mobile application. The method in this study uses the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) which is written on the development of the website system to the mobile application. By using firebase and android platform, It is hoped that the development of mobile-based applications can make it easier for graduate users to fill I tracer study data. Then the results of functionality and compatibility testing generated by tracer study users. An easy data entry process and a familiar interface will determine the quality and quantity of alumni, and make it easier for the faculty or study program level to determine policies in order to improve the quality of graduates, quality of education and accreditation. The convenience of alumni in accessing applications on the Google Playstore will make it easier for alumni to download and install the tracer study application on their cellphones.
Keywords: Tracer Study, Android Mobile, Merdeka Campus
1. Introduction
Tracer Study is a service provided by higher education institutions to track alumni who have graduated, which can later be used as an accreditation assessment of graduates aimed at knowing the output of education in the form of a transition from the world of education to the world of work. The Directorate of Higher Education is currently initiating a complication of the National tracer study data, especially regarding the transition and job positions of Higher Education graduates in Indonesia. Tracerstudy at Serambi Mekkah University is considered important because it is a tool for evaluating university performance and is used as an assessment by the National Accreditation Board for Higher Education (BAN-PT). The online tracer study has been implemented by the Directorate of
Higher Education since 2011, but not all tertiary institutions have implemented an online tracer study system.
The Tracer Study of Serambi Mekkah University is aimed at tracing the tracks of graduates/alumni which is carried out 2 years after graduation and aims to find out, educational outcomes in the form of the first job search process, the last work situation and competency application in the world of work in accordance with the skills that have been obtained, the output of education is self-assessment of the mastery and acquisition of competence, the educational process is in the form of evaluation of the learning process and the contribution of higher education to the acquisition of competence. Alumni tracking has been carried out by universities through a website-based application with the address http://tracerstudy.serambimekkah.ac.id. The purpose of this research from the results of observations still has many shortcomings, including the use of functions in applications that have not gone well as graduate users and as a solution in this study to develop Android-based mobile applications. The method in this study uses the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) which is written on the development from the website system to the mobile application.
By using the firebase and Android platforms, it is hoped that the development of mobile-based applications will make it easier for graduate users to fill in tracer study data.
Then the results of functionality and compatibility testing are generated by tracer study users. The easy process of filling in data and a familiar interface will determine the quality and quantity of alumni, and make it easier for the faculty or study program level to determine policies in order to improve the quality of graduates, the quality of education and accreditation. The convenience of alumni in accessing applications on the Google Playstore will make it easier for alumni to download and install the tracer study application on each alumni's Android mobile phone. Therefore, from tracking alumni to create an Independent Campus and honing skills according to interests, talents in preparing for future careers. The results of this research will be published in national journals and seminars at the national or international level.
2. Method
Research in research being developed is developing a tracer study based on android mobile to improve the quality of graduates in realizing an independent campus at the integrated Serambi Mekkah University which has been integrated with Android-based cellphones and so that it is easy to access for graduates and alumni. Therefore it is necessary to look at the State of the Art or previous research so that this research develops updates from what has been previously studied. The state of the art can be explained as follows:
Table 1. State of the art
No. Journal description Discussion
1 Mobile-Based Tracer Study Application Development (13)
The research researched by Mei Prabowo: 2020 utilizes the internet as a mobile-based tracer study application and the resulting output is tailored to the needs of the Research and Higher Education Research Institute. In developing this application the method used is Rapid Application Development. This research produces a mobile-based tracer study application with data generated in accordance with the standards of the Directorate General of Belmawa Ristekdikti.
2 Mobile-Based Design of Gorontalo Polytechnic Campus Alumni Tracer Study
Application (11)
The research conducted by Mohidin: 2019 Alumni Tracer Study is the process of collecting data and information related to alumni who are scattered in various regions and is useful for knowing alumni activities after graduation.
However, processing data or information about alumni manually has not been very effective for every institution. Based on this description, the author wants to build a mobile-based application for the needs of alumni
3 Website-Based Alumni Tracer Study Application Information System Design (15)
The research researched by Pambudi RB: 2020 The method used in this study uses a structured waterfall method. In this case, the initial steps taken for this method are to make observations that aim to find and find out the problems faced by users and to collect data by searching literature studies related to website-based tracer studies to testing the website testing system using blackbox, namely testing of the functional requirements of each menu in a program.
4 Web Tracer Study Application Development Faculty of Computer Science, University of Brawijaya Using Prototype Method (20)
Research conducted by Yulianti, A. Y. P: 2019 A method for developing web tracer study applications that can solve perceived problems.
The tracer study application development process is carried out using the prototype method. The tracer study system was developed using the PHP programming language and web- based.
5 Application of the K – Means Clustering Method to Alumni Based on the Tracer Study Questionnaire (6)
Research conducted by febrianti s:2021 This method is for grouping alumni data from the results of online questionnaires based on the level of alumni knowledge. There are 3 assessment groups as follows: Very Poor, Good, and Very Good. The tracer study system that was built based on the test results can already be used
well.
3. Data Analysis
This task was also assisted by members of the research team, starting with interviews and field observations. Then design the system with the aim of helping a complete picture of what must be done, at this stage the team members also assist in preparing requirements starting from the design and design of the system. After the design is complete, then the implementation using the programming language. Then the researchers tested the system that had been created with a tracer study at Serambi Mecca University, if it went well then the system would be published, the target for application work was for 6 months, then continued with trials. The overall time required for this research is 1 year. After the system is running well, the next step is to make reports for both mandatory outputs and additional outputs. In preparing this report assisted by
members of the research team. After all the required data is available, then the data can be separated and then the data that has been compiled is entered into web-based software.
This Word Electric Browser (WEB)-based software is designed using the Personal Home Page (PHP) programming language and framework Code Igniter (CI), and other devices in the form of Android Studio and Hypertext. So that it can be applied to mobile android- based alumni tracking to improve the quality of graduates in realizing the Independent Campus. It can be seen in Figure 4. Below are the stages of the research flow below:
Figure 1. Steps in data analysis
4. Results and Discussion
The results of the development of the Serambi Mecca University Study Tracer Graduates or alumni are the end product of a process that exists at Serambi Mecca University. One of the assessments made by the community on the quality of higher education institutions is to look at the track record of alumni in the community or in the world of work. The various successful achievements of alumni in their careers will have a positive impact on improving tertiary institutions in the eyes of the community. In order to optimize the role and function of Serambi Mecca University, it has consistently tracked graduates/alumni from 2020-2021 online based on a website. Through this alumni tracking, various useful information will be available in evaluating the process of higher education outcomes. It is hoped that this various information will be used in improving and guaranteeing the quality of graduates/alumni in the future and will always be relevant to the needs of society. A tracer study is a tracing study conducted on university graduates in order to obtain feedback from graduates for the benefit of evaluating higher education outcomes and improving the quality of higher education.
Every higher education institution must strive to improve the system and improve quality. One way to improve this quality is to seek feedback from alumni through tracer studies. Tracer studies at Serambi Mecca University are considered important because they are a tool for evaluating university performance and are used as an assessment by the
National Accreditation Board for Higher Education (BAN-PT). The online tracer study has been implemented by the Directorate of Higher Education since 2011, but not all tertiary institutions have implemented an online tracer study system. The Tracer Study of Serambi Mekkah University is aimed at tracing the tracks of graduates/alumni which is carried out 2 years after graduation and aims to find out, educational outcomes in the form of the first job search process, the last work situation and competency application in the world of work in accordance with the skills that have been obtained, the output of education is self- assessment of the mastery and acquisition of competence, the educational process is in the form of evaluation of the learning process and the contribution of higher education to the acquisition of competence.
Alumni tracking has been carried out by universities through a website-based application which has the address http://tracerstudy.serambimekkah.ac.id. The aim of this research is that from the observations it still has many shortcomings including, the use of functions in the application has not gone well as a graduate user and as a the solution in this research is to develop an Android-based mobile application. The method in this study uses the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) which is written on the development from the website system to the mobile application.
By using the firebase and Android platforms, it is hoped that the development of mobile-based applications will make it easier for graduate users to fill in tracer study data.
Then the results of functionality and compatibility testing are generated by tracer study users. The easy process of filling in data and a familiar interface will determine the quality and quantity of alumni, and make it easier for the faculty or study program level to determine policies in order to improve the quality of graduates, the quality of education and accreditation. The convenience of alumni in accessing applications on the Google Playstore will make it easier for alumni to download and install the USM V1 tracer study application on each alumni's android cellphone. The results of the progress of the research implementation so far are ready for data collection and data collection from the field.
1. The Mobile-based Online Tracer Study Home Page menu can be seen in the image below:
2.
Figure 2. Display evidence of mobile-based applications
2. Menu Home Page Tracer Study Online can be seen below:
Figure 2. Display evidence of the beta version of the mobile-based application 3. Menu Home Page Tracer Study Online Mobile-based can be seen below:
Figure 3. Display proof of login based mobile application 4. Menu Home Page Tracer Study Online Mobile-based can be seen below:
Figure 4. Display evidence of running Android-based mobile applications
5. Menu Home Page Tracer Study Online Mobile-based can be seen below:
Figure 5. Display evidence of an Android-based mobile application for filling out questionnaires
6. Menu Home Page Tracer Study Online Mobile-based can be seen below:
Figure 6. The display of proof of Android-based mobile applications can already be used by alumni
7. Menu Home Page Tracer Study Online Mobile-based can be seen below:
Figure 7. Show evidence of successful Android-based mobile applications in filling out tracer studies
1. Respondents
The Tracer Study to be conducted in 2021 is specifically for 2019 and 2020 graduates whose target respondents are 88% of the total graduates. In total, 950 alumni filled out the questionnaire, and previously targeted 794 respondents. The largest number of respondents came from graduates of the Computer Engineering, Physical Education, Health and Recreation Study Programs, as well as the Management Economics Study Program. For response rates that did not reach 100%, there were 84% Public Health Study Programs, 83% Agricultural Industrial Engineering Study Programs and 96% Physical Education, Health and Recreation. So from the total population, it can be explained that on average 98.3% filled out the questionnaire and 1.7% did not fill it out. For more details, as shown in Figure 1 and the Response Rate of each Study Program, can be seen in Figure 11 below:
Figure 8. Respondents / Alumni Participation Achievements
Figure 9. Respondents / Rate
2. Respondents
Of the total number of alumni who filled out the questionnaire as many as 950 alumni, the work results of each alumni were obtained, from 6 types of work, 273 or 29% worked in Government Agencies, then 43 alumni or 4% worked in BUMN/BUMD , then 130 alumni or 14% who work in Multilateral Institutions / Organizations, then 96 alumni or 10% who work in non-profit organizations / non-governmental organizations, then 259 alumni or 27% who work in private companies, then 28 people alumni or 3% who work as Entrepreneurs / Own Companies, then 121 alumni or 13% who do not state the type of work. For more details, it can be seen in Figure 12 below:
Figure 10. Current Job
3. Methods of data analysis
In the results of the tracer study analysis, descriptive statistical analysis techniques were used in this study to analyze data by describing or describing the questionnaire data that had been collected from the answers of respondents to alumni so that questions and answers appeared in accordance with the results of the TS Study.
4. Conclusion
Based on all the results of the 2021 Serambi Mekkah University Tracer Study that has been carried out by the tracer study team, the targets being tracked are graduates in 2019 and 2020, so after tracking it can be concluded that:
1. The total response rate from Serambi Mekkah University which was targeted as a respondent reached 100%, only 3 study programs still did not reach the target, namely the Public Health Study Program by 84%, the Agricultural Industrial Engineering Study Program by 83% and Physical Education, Health and Recreation as much as 96%. So from the total population, it can be explained that on average 98.3% filled out the questionnaire and 1.7% did not fill it out.
2. As many as 87% of alumni already have jobs, including 14% who work in Multilateral Institutions / Organizations, 10% who work in non-profit organizations / Non-Governmental Organizations, 27% who work in Private Companies, 3% who work as Entrepreneurs / My own company.
3. 2019 graduates have a waiting period to get a job or a transition period of < 6 months by 16% and > 6 months by 84%. Meanwhile, 556 people answered the questionnaire in 2020, of which 16% had a waiting period of < 6 months and 86%
had a waiting period of > 6 months.
4. In 2019 the income report is <= 1 million as much as 15%, <= 3 million as much as 52%, <= 5 million as much as 5%, > 5 million as much as 2% and 26% of the income is not detected / not inputted. Then in 2020 they will earn <= 1 million as much as 13%, <= 3 million as much as 43%, <= 5 million as much as 5%, > 5 million as much as 1% and 38% whose income is not detected or not input.
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