Development of Entrepreneurship Education Model to Create Vocational School Students Entrepreneur Competency

The study aimed at finding teaching model and material of entrepreneurship which can create entrepreneurship competency of vocational school students, teaching strategy which can improve entrepreneurship competency, and finding out the knowledge and attitude of entrepreneurship. The population was all Public Vocational Schools (SMK Negeri) in Medan. The target population was students, teachers, and companies and industries having dual system (DS) with SMK using purposive random sampling. Try-out of the entrepreneurship module was conducted at SMK Negeri 3 Medan, SMK Negeri 5 Medan, and SMK Negeri Lubuk Pakam. Research and development design was applied to reach the aim of the research. The instruments were questionnaire, document study, and test. The data were analyzed with descriptive technique, regression, and t-test. The result showed that entrepreneurship competency could be intervened through integrated activities in Production Unit, DS and entrepreneurship practicum. The teaching strategies applied the use of competency-based module. The data analysis found that before the teaching model was implemented, the students knowledge of entrepreneurship was low and their attitude of entrepreneurship was high. It was found that there was relationship between knowledge of entrepreneurship and attitude of entrepreneurship. The finding revealed that the application of entrepreneurship module teaching was more effectively used to improve entrepreneurship competency compared with conventional teaching.