Edi Sarwono, João Barroso, Ting-Ting Wu
Vocational high school is a secondary education whose practice portion is larger than its theoretical portion. This allows students to do more hands-on practice in the laboratory, as skill competency is very important in vocational education. Through practice, students have the skills to become competent and skilled technicians in the future. When students practice in a hands-on laboratory, errors may occur that can injure students, equipment, and components. In addition, short circuits can also endanger student safety. Therefore, to improve practical skills in the laboratory, teachers must find innovative ways to incorporate these methods into the learning process. One of the things that can be done to improve students’ practical skills is to use simulation software before doing direct practice in the laboratory. In-depth interviews were conducted with three electrical engineering teachers to verify the perspective of the proposed model. The results suggest that the proposed design is likely to improve problem-solving skills when an error occurs during the simulation, and it will improve practical skills when using hands-on laboratories so that students learn more about hands-on lab practice in vocational high school. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Graduate School of Technological and Vocational Education, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, 64002, Taiwan; Department Electrical Engineering, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Semarang, Indonesia; Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
