The development of online vocational aptitude test

Directing students to be able to choose the right program to follow is a very important activity for education, in an effort to increase graduate competence. In order to be able to direct students into appropriate study programs, the aptitude of students is very important to be recognized. If students can participate in educational programs that are relatively in accordance with their aptitude, their learning motivation tends to increase, so that the competencies achieved will be better and the learning time will be shorter. Thus, the allocated education resources can be used more efficiently. In addition to the school and students, parents are also very important to know their children's aptitude, in order to be able to negotiate with their children to choose an educational program. Aptitude tests have been widely developed, however, that there are still many limitations to use them, such as limited access on the part of respondents, difficulty in presenting various tests, and difficulty in scoring. Efforts towards the development of online aptitude tests have been widely sought. This research attempted to develop an online vocational aptitude test. This test was developed to detect the vocational aptitude of junior high school graduates who will enter a vocational high school which is currently the leading education program. The vocational aptitude test developed was based on verbal aptitude, numerical aptitude, logical aptitude, and scholastic aptitude. The aptitude test developed adopts a multiple-choice test model with four choices. Review by expert shows that the developed vocational aptitude test has a content validity ratio (CVR) which is in the range of 0.78-0.86, so it meets the content validity requirements. Based on the tryout of the test, it was found that the reliability of the test had met the requirements with an alpha cronbach coefficient (α) = 0.83. Tests on students who had chosen vocational programs got precision = 0.76; recall = 0.82; and accuracy = 0.83. Therefore, vocational aptitude tests already met the requirements of online vocational aptitude tests.