COMPARISON BETWEEN THE DACUM AND WORK PROCESS ANALYSIS FOR VOCATIONAL SCHOOL CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT TO MEET WORKPLACE NEED

Curriculum development to meet workplace need of vocational education can be reached through a number of procedures. A procedure for the development of the curriculum used by vocational education experts from ITB Germany is work process analysis (WPA). The result of WPA is the steps of the task. The education experts in the United States and Canada use DACUM (Development a Curriculum). The result of DACUM is: duties and tasks of an occupation. This paper will compare the two curriculum development procedures. The aspects to be compared are: the steps, the results obtained, the time required, the number of personnel involved, advantages, and disadvantages