Evaluation of civil servant teacher's restructuring and equalizing policy at vocational high school

Abstract

The research intends to evaluate (1) the implementation and (2) the result of the implementation of civil servant teacher’s restructuring and equalizing policy at vocational high school in Yogyakarta City. This research was policy evaluation using discrepancy evaluation model by identifying the gap between performance and standard. The data was collected through interviews and documentation from several informants including The Office of Secondary Education staff, vice principals of curriculum and some civil servant teachers. The research instrument was tested by using the content validity test while the data validity was measured by triangulation and member checks. The data were analysed using the descriptive statistical analysis for analysing the quantitative data and continuous interactive analysis for analysing the qualitative data. The research results are as follows. (1) The implementation of civil servant teachers’ structuring and equity policy at vocational high schools in Yogyakarta City has been implemented properly in accordance with the implementation standards. (2) The implementation of civil servant teacher restructuring and equalizing policy successfully rearranges 15 civil servant teachers and reduces the number of teacher shortages by 7%. Nonetheless, the number of teacher shortages in certain subjects is still quite large, especially in productive subjects. The positive impacts of implementation of civil servant teachers’ restructuring and equalizing policy are (a) teachers are motivated to increase career paths; (b) teachers get new teaching experience and (c) teacher get new relationships. Meanwhile, the negative impact is that the teachers are having difficulty in managing teaching time which causes them not focus on teaching.