Significance of Education Quality Improvement during the MBKM Implementation

Merdeka Belajar-Kampus Merdeka (MBKM) curriculum provides university students with learning flexibility, allowing them to learn both inside and outside the university. The implementation of this curriculum should be monitored and evaluated to measure its quality attainment, whether or not it meets the minimum criteria stated in the education, research, community service, and additional standards used as the reference of the MBKM implementation. In this regard, the present study aims to measure the education quality attainment in MBKM implementations. To this end, an exploratory, descriptive quantitative approach was applied. The respondents of this study were students and partners associated with MBKM implementations during the odd semester of the 2021/2022 academic year. A total of 199 respondents, consisting of 189 students, eight non-university partners, and three university partners, were recruited using the total sampling technique. The data were collected using a questionnaire developed by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia. The collected data were analyzed using simple regression analysis. The result indicated that the MBKM implementation had met the quality attainment indicator stated in SN-DIKTI including education, research, community service, and additional standards used as the reference of MBKM implementation. The correlation test result indicates a positive relationship between students’ competency and MBKM partners’ satisfaction. This study concludes that MBKM implementation has attained the graduate competency standard of education quality