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Improvement (Pemantapan Kemampuan Professional- PKP) are also compulsory
subjects for all study programs at the Faculty of Education (FKIP-UT). The
purpose of this subject is to enhance students' ability in designing,
implementing, evaluating , and improving learning activities in classroom. All
competences that students gain from various subjects should be applied in PKM
and PKP . To ensure the implementation of high-quality practice, PKM and PKP
exams, student counseling in report writing , a school or place is needed for the
activity. Therefore , UT needs to have centers for practices , PKM and PKP.
According to data from Development Team of Practice Implementation System
from all UPBJJs , there are 114 centers of practice : 89 are at high schools and 26
are at universities and 5 in other places. Students can see the address of
practice centers in UT Catalogue.
3) Implementation of Tutorial
Tutorial is an academic service and counseling provided for students,
individually or in group. In tutorial, students meet face-to-face with tutors. In
this meeting , students and tutors discuss learning materials.
Subjects to be tutored and prediction of number of students to attend
should be decided before the implementation of tutorial. The decision on what
subjects to be tutored should refer to tutorial manuals. How tutorial is
implemented - starting from socialization and recruitment of students, planning,
tutors recruitment, the action of tutorial itself, up to the monitoring and
evaluation of the implementation of the tutorials - is the responsibility of
Faculties and UPBJJs . For basic education , monitoring and evaluation are
carried out by District/Municipal Office of Education. A successful tutorial can be
measured by some important aspects : the availability of facilities, student's
attendance, tutor's attendance , competence and quality of tutor, quality of
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