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The ITiCSE’23 final keynote raised teaching soft skills, or professional dispositions, to help students face challenges in modern programming. This project addresses helping computing students develop professional dispositions through collaborative learning (CL) since some in the industry observe entry-level engineers struggling due to their fragile professional dispositions. We are motivated to understand professional expectations from entry-level engineers and present the academia-industry gap to support practitioners and researchers in advancing CL in Computing Education, encouraging positive curricula and policy changes that promote DEIA. We will present CL practices alongside their supported professional dispositions to assist practitioners in adoption. We will present the academia-industry gap in CL for future research opportunities, helping researchers advance CL practices to integrate professional dispositions the industry expects from entry-level engineers. © 2024 Copyright held by the owner/author(s)

This study delves into the comparative operational effectiveness of non-coordinated, bottom-up, and top-down coordinated control models within Distributed Energy Storage Systems (DESS) and Electric Vehicle (EV) networks. Employing meticulous data analysis, this research evaluates power demand and supply dynamics within the infrastructure and buildings, aiming to optimize energy usage and storage. The analysis involves comprehensive steps: descriptive statistical breakdown, understanding energy patterns across buildings, and a comparative assessment of the control models. Visual representations and graphs aid in depicting energy patterns, emphasizing the distinctive characteristics and effectiveness of each control model. The findings reinforce the superiority of the top-down coordinated control model in managing supply-demand imbalances, echoing established literature.

The course assessments are designed to assess student’s abilities to identify risks associated with global software development projects and critically evaluate risk mitigation strategies. Project and risk management are interdisciplinary subjects that require engineering students to acquire knowledge of management principles. ‘Brief the CEO’ assessment was designed to support and assess their learning about management.

Software Architecture Courses in Software Engineering curricula often involve project-based group assignments where students have to design and document software architectures and evaluate other architectures. This paper presents the design and implementation of the Architectural Kata workshop conducted in the Software Architecture course as a group exercise to teach designing, documenting, and evaluating software architecture. Feedback on the workshop was collected from students using a survey questionnaire after the conclusion of the course. The results showed that besides acquiring skills to design and evaluate architectural designs, the workshop also supported skills to identify non-functional requirements, elaborate assumptions, and collaborate with their peers. Observations and lessons learned from the workshop about students' feedback, planning, and workshop moderation are shared. Possible future improvements are also suggested. © 2023 Owner/Author.

Context: Software Architecture is an important subject and core course in the Software Engineering degree that teaches multiple co-mingled concepts and skills. The academic community believes that students find the course difficult to grasp and master. However, to revise the course curriculum, identification of threshold concepts and skills can help prioritize topics ensuring alignment with course learning objectives. Objective: The aim of the study was to identify threshold concepts and skills in Software Architecture to help instructors focus on redesigning the curriculum and improving didactics. Method: We applied the Delphi technique to identify threshold concepts and skills from instructors with teaching experience in university-level Software Architecture courses. Results: We identified eleven threshold concepts and nine threshold skills with more than 80% agreement among the participants. Six out of twenty-one threshold concepts and skills achieved 100% agreement from participants indicating high consensus. Furthermore, all participants agreed that applying skills to design Software Architecture is more difficult than understanding the underlying theoretical concepts. Conclusion: The Software Architecture course is demanding, and the industry expects graduating students are prepared to design solutions for complex systems. The identified threshold concepts and skills can help academics to redesign Software Architecture courses, focus on hard to grasp topics, and offer support for skills that are difficult to master. Often theoretical concepts are considered more important than the skills required to apply them in practice. However, instructors agreed that students struggle to apply theoretical concepts in designing solutions. Thus, skills development should be equally emphasized. © 2022 IEEE.

Generally, teacher performance becomes the main objective in improving the quality of education. Therefore, the improvement of the teacher performance requires serious attention from various parties and needs efforts to increase the factors relating to the teacher performance, such as principal leadership and work motivation. This study aimed at determining effects on school leadership and motivation on the performance of teachers at SMAN 7 of Banda Aceh. This study used a quantitative approach with the associative method. The data analysis technique used to test the hypothesis was simple linear regression analysis and multiple, t-test and F-test. The results showed that: 1) there was a significant correlation between the leadership of the principal on teacher performance that was equal to 35.8%. This meant that both variables affected each other, the more conducive school leadership is, the better the level of teacher performance is; 2) there was a significant correlation of work motivations on the performance of teachers of 99.3%. Where the work motivation of teachers would affect the activities of teachers in the school to achieve maximum performance of teachers. High motivation will also encourage teachers to develop creativity and actualize all of the capabilities as well as its energy in order to achieve maximum achievement; and 3) there was a significant correlation between the principal leadership and motivation to work together on teacher performance about 96.8%. Both variables, the principal leadership and motivation, were accordance with the teacher performance variable, meaning the better the principal leadership and motivation are, the higher the performance of the teacher is.Keywords: leadership, principal, work motivation, and teacher performanceAbstrak: Kinerja guru menjadi sasaran utama dalam peningkatan mutu pendidikan secara umum. Oleh karena itu, peningkatan kinerja guru perlu mendapat perhatian yang serius dari berbagai pihak, dan upay

This study aims to examine the performance of post-certification schools teachers in their learning process, including: their ability, motivation, discipline, responsibility of school teachers in learning with existing supports and challenges. This study applies qualitative approach. Data is collected using interview, observation techniques, and documentation study. The subjects of this study are school’s principals, school’s representatives for curriculum affairs, school’s supervisor, and school’s teachers of Islamic State Senior High School of Beureunuen of Pidie Regency. The results of the study indicate that: (1) in general, the ability of the teachers in the learning process including the ability of planning and implementing learning administration has been optimal although there are still a number of teachers that consider learning administration is only complementary to the learning materials. The ability of teachers in evaluating the learning outcome, however, is still not optimal. The lack of learning evaluation ability was identified to be resulted from lack of continuous guidance from principals and supervisors, low ability of teachers in using Internet, and lack of opportunities in skill training, such as MGMP (Teacher Education Consensus Points). (2) The motivation of learning is also identified to be low in this study. The low motivation of teachers is identified to be affected by the factors such as lack of schools facilities and infrastructure. The findings also suggest that school’s principal can play a key role in improving the teachers’ motivation. (3) The discipline and responsibility of certified teachers is relatively high, which is supported by monitoring effort of stand-by teachers and finger-print scanner to record attendance at the Ministry of Religious Affair offices. (4) The results also suggest that supporting factors for teachers could be derived from the good school environment, while the challenging factors arise from the la

The purpose of this study to determine; (1) the learning plan in SD Negeri 45 Banda Aceh; (2) organizing learning in primary schools 45 Banda Aceh; (3) the implementation of learning in primary schools 45 Banda Aceh, and; (4) assessment of learning in primary schools 45 Banda Aceh. This study used a qualitative approach with descriptive methods. The subjects were 45 teachers in primary schools in Banda Aceh. The technique of collecting data through interviews, observation, and documentation. The results showed that; (1) planning of learning made by teachers SD Negeri 45 Banda Aceh is not yet planned. Most of the preparation of lesson plans that exist on teacher made jointly by team group. Only a small proportion of teachers are able to organize and make their own RPP; (2) organizing learning undertaken by teachers SD Negeri 45 Banda Aceh have done well, by organizing optimal learning process, manage changes and school development towards effective learning organization, create a culture and climate of the school is innovative and conducive to the learning process in the school; (3) the implementation of the study conducted by teachers SD Negeri 45 Banda Aceh general nature only. This, due to the limited funds at the school. If planned and implemented in earnest, teachers predict barriers to supporting factors, namely money, time, and means; and (4) learning assessment conducted by teachers SD Negeri 45 Banda Aceh can be categorized as good, the assessment of teachers do objectively the results obtained by the students. Assessment conducted to see the progress of learners in terms of mastery of teaching materials that have been studied.KEYWORDS: management, learning, and school ABSTRAK: Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui; (1) perencanaan pembelajaran di SD Negeri 45 Banda Aceh; (2) pengorganisasian pembelajaran di SD Negeri 45 Banda Aceh; (3) pelaksanaan pembelajaran di SD Negeri 45 Banda Aceh, dan (4) penilaian pembelajaran di SD

The purpose of this study was to find out the program, implementation, evaluation, and obstacles faced by the principal in improving the professional competence of teachers at State Junior High School 1 Batee of Batee Sub-district of Pidie Regency. This research used descriptive method with qualitative approach. The technique of data collection used were observation, interview, and documentation study. Subjects of the research were principal, vice principals, chairman of MGMP (Teacher Network), teachers, school supervisors, and school committees. Data were analyzed by means of data reduction, data display, conclusion drawing, and data verification. The results showed that: (1) Programs are arranged at the beginning of each school year by the school development team and has not been well documented and tidy. The planned program was the preparation of lesson plans, implementation of learning, evaluation of learning, supervision of classroom, implementation of MGMP and procurement of instructional media; (2) Activities carried out not all listed on a standard instrument, the schedule of activities was not all according to plan and the frequency of the activities was not in accordance with the planned program that has been prepared; (3) The evaluation was conducted at the end of each semester and served as a follow-up program to determine the advanced program. The evaluation results were presented to teachers, both individually and in groups; and (4) obstacles faced were: the teachers did not master ICT well, they did not master the subject matter, they rarely applied the learning method, the principal had too much workload, and the absence of a standard school program.KEYWORDS: management, planning, actuating, evaluating, principal and teacher professional competency ABSTRAK: Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui program, pelaksanaan, evaluasi, dan hambatan-hambatan yang dihadapi kepala sekolah dalam meningkatkan kompetensi profesional guru pada SMP Negeri 1

Harmonious communication between homeroom teacher and parents is one of the factors that affect student achievement. With today's advanced communication techniques by establishing better communication can be obtained better results. This study aims to describe the program of homeroom teacher communication with parents, strategies used, obstacles faced and efforts are used to deal with obstacles to improve student achievements in Semesta Bilingual Boarding High School Semarang. The method used in this research is descriptive method with qualitative approach. Data collection techniques used were observation, interviews and documentation. Subjects of the research are homeroom teacher and parents of class XII, Principal, Head of Dormitory and Counselor of Semesta Bilingual Boarding High School Semarang. Research conducted in Semesta Bilingual Boarding High School environment with the population of 131 12th grade students of Semesta Bilingual Boarding High School. The results showed that: 1) Among the communication programs that made by school to establish better relationship between homeroom teachers and parents are mother class program, club activities, guidance service, leadership, and the Student Information System. Programs that have been implemented have positive impact on student achievement, 2) among strategies of communication between homeroom teacher and parents to improve learning achievement of student are open house, home visit, social media, mother club, and discussion programs. With these strategies positive effect was seen on student achievement,. 3) obstacles that have been discovered are difference in perception, culture, basic character, poor choice of communication channel and no feedback. These obstacles have negative impact on student achievement, 4) efforts being done to overcome the obstacles that experienced are establishing two-way communication, making new rules, socialization, and more intensive meetings.KEYWORDS: communication, stu

Learning management includes several matters, such as planning, implementation, and supporting and inhibiting factors of learning. This study aimed at determining the learning plan, the learning implementation, learning evaluation, and supporting and inhibiting factors in teacher learning management. The research method used was descriptive with a qualitative approach. The data were collected by observation, interviews and documentation review. The subjects of the study were principals and teachers. Data were analyzed with reduction, display, and verification techniques. The results showed that: 1) planning of learning made by teachers had not planned properly, there were some teachers who had not been able to prepare mapping properly, preparation of topic, and syllabus as tool that should be prepared before preparing the lesson plan; 2) the implementation of teacher learning done by teachers was guided by school-based curriculum. The implementation of the learning process was not optimal, for it was still a lack of teacher knowledge about the procedure of effective learning application, and there was still a low-grade teacher who used the subjects clearly without topic; 3) the evaluation of learning done by teachers was guided by a lesson plan. The evaluation was done to improve the learning activities of teachers, both spoken and written evaluation forms; and 4) the obstacles to the implementation of learning management were planning for coaching teachers, time, facilities and personnel. In addition, it lacks training for teachers; some teachers were not active in group activities, seminars, and improving the teaching professional.Keywords: Teacher, Learning Management, and SD Negeri 1 Peukan Pidie.Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui perencanaan pembelajaran, pelaksanaan pembelajaran, evaluasi pembelajaran, serta faktor-faktor pendukung dan penghambat dalam manajemen pembelajaran guru. Metode penelitian ini bersifat deskriptif analitis

Clinical supervision is a professional guidance given to teachers based on the necessity through systematical cycles and it is an effort to improve teaching skill that can improve professional competence of teachers. This study aimed to find out the programs of clinical supervision, stages of the implementation of clinical supervision, and its supporting and inhibiting factors.The method used in this study was qualitative method. The techniques of data collection were observation, interview, and documentation study. The subjects of this study were principal, supervisor, and teachers. The results of the study were: (1) The programs of clinical supervision in Islamic State Senior High School (MAN) of Beureunuen were arranged based on the problems rose and teachers’ demands. The programs were made when the teachers asked the clinical supervision. The programs were permanent, in form of official procedures, notes of implementation schedule, and clinical supervision instruments. (2) The stages of clinical supervision to improve the professional competence of teachers in Islamic State Senior High School Beureunuen were conducted through beginning stage, started by creating good relation, determining schedules, and designing instruments. Then, it was started the class observation, where the supervisor carried out the clinical supervision with the instruments and agreement with teachers, and noted everything happened in the process of clinical supervision. After that, it was continued with feedback stage, the supervisor reaffirmed the commitment and motivation of teachers and asked the teachers’ feeling after the observation, explained the result of supervision and concluded the achievement, and motivated the teachers to continue clinical supervision in the next chance. (3) The supporting factors in the implementation of clinical supervision were the willingness and motivation, the clinical supervision conducted to overcome teachers’ weakness, innovation, optimal

This study aimed to determine source of financing, planning, implementation and monitoring of education financing at State Junior High School No. 19 Percontohan (Pilot School) of Banda Aceh. This study used descriptive method with qualitative approach. The subjects of the study were the principal, vice principal, treasurer, teachers and school committees. The techniques used to collect the data were interviews, observation, and documentation. The results showed that: (1) Sources of financing for education were from the state budget, City budget, families, and society; (2) Financial planning of education or RAPBS was done by: that the principal directed vice principal, treasurer and school committee considered the input and output elements; (3) The implementation of education financing included: financing the disadvantaged students, pay honorariums of casual teachers, professional development (training), building maintenance, bought the tools of lessons, sports, arts, finance daily test of general and school, remedial, enrichment and procurement of mobile; and (4) Monitoring education financing was done by Inspectorate Team in Banda Aceh, the School Committee and functional supervision by the regional Inspectorate. The disadvantage was that in the financial planning of education had not been able to accommodate a variety of conditions and background of the students; not all teachers and donors were involved. Besides, the society is less concerned about the education financing that has been presented on the billboard.KEYWORDS: management, finance, and educationABSTRAK: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui sumber pembiayaan, perencanaan, pelaksanaan dan pengawasan pembiayaan pendidikan pada SMP Negeri 19 Percontohan Banda Aceh. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Subjek penelitian adalah: kepala sekolah, wakil kepala sekolah, bendahara, guru dan komite sekolah. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan: wawancara, obser

Academic supervision is an assistance provided to teachers to improve the ability, learning process and their performance. The purpose of this study was to find out academic supervision program, academic supervision implementation, academic supervision techniques and follow up activities of academic supervision implementation at State Junior High Schools of Gayo Lues Regency. This study used qualitative approach and descriptive method. Data were collected through interviews, observation and documentation study. Subjects in this study were school supervisors, principals and teachers. The results showed that (1) The program of supervision that has not been done organized by supervisors in school scheduled like planning, scheduled of activities and programming; (2) The but implementation of academic supervision has been implemented, although has not been scheduled but implementation, assessment, and development remain to be implemented by the supervisor in school; (3) The techniques of academic supervision carried out were: classroom visits, classroom observations, individual counseling and group counseling; and (4) Follow-up activities were carried out by joining teachers who had same problem together, getting coaching from supervisors and fostering kinship attachment among them, in addition, supervisors can determine the development of teachers as well as the success of teaching. From those it will be seen that teachers can improve their performance and for teachers who did not meet the standards should undertake clinical supervision coaching or ongoing guidance for those who have not been optimal in teaching.Keywords: academic supervision, school’s supervisor and teacher performance ABSTRAK: Supervisi akademik merupakan bantuan yang diberikan kepada guru untuk meningkatkan kualitas pembelajaran. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui bagaimana program supervisi akademik, pelaksanaan supervisi akademik, teknik-teknik supervisi akademik dan tindak lanju

Teachers are main component in bulding quality of education process and education outcome. The approach used in this study was descriptive naturalistic approach with qualitative data. Technique of data collection was feeld research. Subjects of this study were certified teachers, principal, and vice principal in curriculum. The result of the study showed that: (1) The ability of teacher certification in the planning and implementation of learning begins with analyzing the learning goals or indicators of learning based on standards of competence and basic competence, the implementation of learning , assessment instruments adapted to the purpose/learning indicators. (2) Certified teachers’ commitment reflected through their discipline and responsibility in running their duties such as come and leave the school on time, perfect attendance, build a good relationship with other colleagues and students. (3) certified teachers have high motivation in running their duties on learning process in school, have motivation to guide students, and have a good plan in running and implementing their duties.Keywords : Performance of certified, teachers, and learningAbstrak : Guru merupakan komponen yang sangat berpengaruh terhadap terciptanya proses dan hasil pendidikan yang bermutu. Pendekatan yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu naturalistik, bersifat deskriptif dengan jenis data kualitatif. Teknik pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan tehnik Field Research (penelitian lapangan). Subjek dalam penelitian ini adalah guru sertifikasi, kepala sekolah, dan wakil kepala sekolah bidang kurikulum. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa: (1) Kemampuan guru sertifikasi dalam perencanaan dan pelaksanaan pembelajaran diawali dengan menganalisis pembelajaran tujuan atau indikator pembelajaran yang berdasarkan standar kompetensi (SK) dan kompetensi dasar (KD), pelaksanaan pembelajaran, instrumen penilaian yang disesuaikan dengan tujuan/indikator pembelajaran. (2) Komitmen guru sertifikas

A good quality of education could be achieved through various factors and one of them is to create a good coordination and mutual understanding between the school-supervisor and principal in implementing the supervision of education. Such condition would lead to a more conducive teaching process, building a mutual understanding, meaningful and harmony between the two parties. The objective of this study is to know the coordination between school supervisors and principals in: (1) planning, (2) implementing, (3) carrying out the follow-up programs related to the supervision of education. The approach applied in this study was qualitative and descriptive methodologies. Data were collected and obtained through interviews, observation, and documentation studies. School-supervisor and principal of an elementary school (referred as SD Negeri in bahasa) in the Lampeuneurut area were applied as subjects. Results showed that: (1) a good coordination existed between the school-supervisor and principals by the planning of supervision program in education, including by the planning of various capacity building programs aiming to strengthen the teachers’ capacity and professionalism. However, supervision programs have not yet been agreed with the vision, mission, and objectives of the involved school, (2) a diverse techniques in supervision program between the supervisor and principal were applied by the implementation, e.g. observation, personal and formal meetings. However, these were acknowledged as insufficient and ineffective, especially the time was presumed as the most limiting factor by the guidance and supervision among teachers, (3) the follow-up programs were planned and carried out in two ways: (i) direct feedback in a formal meeting involving individual teacher and supervisor, or (ii) indirect ways e.g. general meeting with the whole school staff. However, the supervision results had not yet been programmed in systematically and details. Thus, there had be

As for the purpose of this study is: (1) knowing school policies hearts Implementation of the Quality Management System ISO 9001:2008 (2) knowing the school's policy strategy in the implementation of the Quality Management System ISO 9001:2008, and (3) knowing the school quality assurance procedures manual in the implementation of the Quality Management System ISO 9001:2008. The approach used in this study was descriptive etnografi approach with qualitative data. Techniques of collection data used were observation, interview and documentation. Subjects of this study were principal, quality manajement representative, teacher and students. The results of the study showed that: (1) the achievement vision of school is determined by, the development of curriculum and teaching programs, the admission of new students, the human resource developent, the improvement of infrastructure, and the evaluations wich conducted in the context of overall improvements in various fields will affect the completeness of education services at school. (2) Strategy policy of school implemented by the determination of quality objectives pursued and developed within the framework of increasing and improving the quality of school education to determine customer satisfaction. (3) A good manual procedure management of school quality assurance can improve quality assurance in finishing work.Keywords: Quality Policy, Strategy and Procedures Manual ISO Abstrak : Adapun yang menjadi tujuan penelitian ini adalah (1) untuk mengetahui kebijakan sekolah dalam pelaksanaan Sistem Manajemen Mutu ISO 9001:2008. (2) untuk mengetahui strategi kebijakan sekolah dalam pelaksanaan Sistem Manajemen Mutu ISO 9001:2008, dan (3) untuk mengetahui manual prosedur penjaminan mutu sekolah dalam pelaksanaan Sistem Manajemen Mutu ISO 9001:2008 Pendekatan yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu etnografi, Teknik pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui wawancara, observasi dan studi dokumentasi. Subjek dalam penel

A success of teachers should be supported with basic skills in implementing their knowledge in the process of educative interaction as well as their willingness to devote themselves according to their ability. This study aimed to find our the importance of teacher competence in learning management, profesional strategy of teachers, and learning evaluation in improving the quality of education. Method of research is descriptive with qualitative approach. The Techniques of data collection used were interview, observation, and documentation study. The Subjects of the study were teachers, principal, vice principal, and students in Muhammadiyah Islamic Junior High School of Banda Aceh City. The results of the study showed that: (1) the competence owned by the teachers in planning lessons, especially in designing lesson plan, syllabus, planning learning media and sources, and learning evaluation was in accordance with the instructions set, but there were some teachers did not make lesson plan. (2) The professional strategy of teachers in learning implementation was master the material, structure, concept and mindset of science that supports the subjects taught. It was done by reviewing materials before continuing to teach and adjusting the materials with lesrning media/sources; (3) The learning evaluation given by the teachers was in accordance with the learning goals set, which included assessment of student's character, ability fo understanding concept, and student's skills and attitud in learning process. The evaluation was conducted in every completed learning material. Keywords : Competence , Professional, and Learning Management Abstrak : Keberhasilan guru harus didukung oleh kemampuan dasar dalam mengimplementasikan ilmunya dalam proses interaksi edukatif serta kerelaannya untuk mengabdikan diri sesuai dengan kemampuan yang dimilikinya. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pentingnya kompetensi guru dalam pengelolaan pembelajaran, strategi profes

The principal leadership style is one of the determining factors of teachers’ discipline. The principal is required to utilize and solve all the school problem together, so the leadership can influence others to achieve the goals set. This research was aimed at finding out: (1) the style of principal leadership in improving the discipline of teachers, (2) the constraints faced by principal in improving the discipline of teachers of MAN Pegasing, in Aceh Tengah regency. This research used descriptive method with qualitative approach. The techniques of data collection were conducted through observation, interview, and documentation. The research subjects were principal and teachers of MAN Pegasing, in Aceh Tengah regency. The data were analyzed using data reduction, data display, and conclusion techniques. The result showed that: (1) the principal of MAN Pegasing in Aceh Tengah regency used authoritarian and democratic leadership style in improving the discipline of teachers. (2) the principal of MAN Pegasing in Aceh Tengah regency had obstacle in improving the discipline of teachers at school. It could be seen from the poor work ethos of teachers, teachers lived far from school, teachers had different background of education, so the teachers did not understand the administration well, both teacher and classroom administrations. It is expected that the principal give motivation and guidance related to discipline, commitment, ability, and responsibility of teachers effectively and efficiently in order to improve discipline of teachers at school.Keywords: Style of Leadership and Teacher Discipline Abstrak: Gaya kepemimpinan kepala sekolah merupakan salah satu faktor penentu kedisiplinan guru. Kepala sekolah dituntut dapat memanfaatkan dan mengatasi bersama-sama semua persoalan yang terjadi di sekolah, dengan demikian kepemimpinan dapat mempengaruhi orang lain untuk mencapai tujuan yang di inginkan. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui tentang: (1) Gaya kepem

Abstrak: Supervisi pendidikan merupakan upaya pembinaan kepala sekolah kepada guru, dan guru bimbingan konseling di sekolah dalam rangka meningkatkan kualitas proses belajar mengajar di sekolah. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui 1) Proses penyusunan program supervisi kepala sekolah dalam meningkatkan kompetensi profesional guru bimbingan konseling, 2) Pelaksanaan program supervisi pendidikan oleh kepala sekolah dalam meningkatkan kompetensi profesional guru bimbingan konseling, dan 3) Tindak lanjut kepala sekolah dalam pelaksanaan supervisi pendidikan untuk meningkatkan kompetensi profesional guru bimbingan konseling. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Teknik pengumpulan data adalah observasi, wawancara dan dokumentasi. Subjek penelitian adalah kepala sekolah, wakil kepala sekolah dan guru bimbingan konseling. Hasil penelitiannya menunjukan bahwa: 1) Program supervisi kepala SMP Negeri 8 Banda Aceh disusun di awal semester setiap tahun ajaran dengan mengikutsertakan wakil kepala sekolah, guru bimbingan konseling, serta guru bidang studi. Program supervisi mencakup kegiatan pembinaan dan bimbingan profesional guru serta pelatihan bagi guru yang disesuaikan dengan bidangnya. 2) Pelaksanaan supervisi kepala SMP Negeri 8 Banda Aceh mengikuti program yang telah disusun, teknik yang digunakan adalah melalui rapat guru, observasi kelas dan percakapan pribadi. Khusus untuk teknik observasi kelas sudah menggunakan panduan observasi, namun kuantitas pada pelaksanaannya belum maksimal. 3) Tindak lanjut pelaksanaan supervisi kepala SMP Negeri 8 Banda Aceh diobservasikan melalui pembicaraan individual, pemberian saran, pembinaan, serta membimbing guru bimbingan konseling dengan fokus untuk pelaksanaan kegiatan yang lebih baik, namun kepala sekolah tidak sepenuhnya memahami program bimbingan konseling. Kata Kunci: Supervisi Pendidikan, Kepala Sekolah dan Bimbingan KonselingAbstract: Education supervision constitutes efforts made by s

The effective and efficient Qur’an learning management is a supporting factor to achieve the goal of learning the Qur’an in school in order to produce Qur’anic generation. The purpose of this study was to find out the planning, implementation, evaluation, and obstacles in learning the Qur’an in Nurul Ishlah Integrated Islamic Elementary School (SDIT Nurul Ishlah) of Banda Aceh.This study used descriptive method with qualitative approach. The techniques of data collection were interview, observation, and documentation. The subjects of this study were principal and Qur’an teachers in SDIT Nurul Ishlah.The results of the study were: (1) The planning was formulated by teachers based on the curriculum set by the school, but some teachers were not able to plan effectively in the learning. (2) The implementation of learning the Qur’an applied by SDIT Nurul Ishlah was in accordance with activities planned, the teachers gave motivation to the students by using various methods and learning media starting from beginning activity with praying and revising memorizationof the Qur’an classically. In main activity, the students performed their memorization to the teachers individually, then the students revised their memorization and learned the memorization of surah individually, and in final activity, the teachers gave motivation to the students to revise their memorization at home by showing motivation videos of children who love Qur’an. However, some students could not finish the tasks given by the teachers. (3) The evaluation was carried out by written exam and practice exam of reading and memorizing the Qur’an by assessing the quality of reciting, pronunciation, tajweed, and fluency, but some students could not perform their memorization fluently. (4) The obstacle faced by the teachers was the lack of motivation and interest of students to revise their memorization that made the learning quality was not improved.Keywords: Management, learning, and Qur’an Abstrak: Ma

Supervision competence of principalis one of the factors that affects the increase of teacher professionalism. This study was aimed at describing: (1) the competence of principal in preparing the academic supervision program to improve the professionalism of teachers, (2) the competenceof principal in implementing the academic supervision program to improve the professionalism of teachers, and (3) the competence of principal in following up the results of academic supervision to improve the professionalism of teachers. This research used descriptive method with qualitative approach. The tehniques of data collection were conducted through observation, interview, and documentation study. The subjects of the research were principal, vice-principal, teachers and school supervisors. The results showed that: (1) The principalof SMA Negeri 1 Kuala Batee Aceh Barat Daya district has demonstrated a good supervision competence, particularly in preparing the academic supervision programs for the teachers. It can be seen from supervision program that has been prepared by setting goals, objectives, and implementation procedures of supervision, but it was still less cooperation with the school supervisors.(2) ) The principalof SMA Negeri 1 Kuala Batee Aceh Barat Dayaregency has demonstrated a good supervision competence, particularly in implementing the academic supervision.It can be seen from the implementation of models, approaches, and techniques of supervisionhave been conducted,but the implementation of observation techniques have not been equipped with observation guide and (3) Supervision competence of the principal of SMA Negeri 1 Kuala Batee Aceh Barat Daya district particularly in following up the results of supervision was still less. It can be seen from the follow up of the supervision conducted by evaluating and providing feedback through individual talk with the teachers supervised, but the principal did not draw up an action plan for the next supervision

Teaching supervision is one of the efforts to improve teacher professionalism. The purpose of this study was to find out how the teaching supervision program, teaching supervision techniques, and supporting and inhibiting factor of the implementation of teaching supervision of principal were. This study used descriptive method and qualitative approach. Data were collected through interview, observation and documentation study. Subject of the study were principal, vice principal and teachers. The result showed that: (1) Learning supervision program prepared by principal including planning, scheduling, supervision model, supervision clues, feedback and follow up implementation. In the implementation, principal examine learning administration instrument such as syllabus, lesson plan, teaching and learning process, annual program, semester program, effective week, question item analysis. (2) Teaching supervision techniques was conducted by class visiting, class observation, individual talk, teacher meeting, and assigning the teachers for training, upgrading, and educational seminar. (3) Supporting factor of teaching supervision implementation were teacher readiness to be coached by the principal, the establishment of good relationship in school environment, in addition the principal can monitor the teachers’ teaching development or achievement. Therefore, the principal would now which teachers were successful and which teachers needed further coaching in teaching. Meanwhile, the inhibiting factor in the implementation of teaching supervision was the limited time due to the busyness of principal inside and outside of the school. Keywords: The Ability of Principal Teaching Supervision Abstrak: Supervisi pengajaran merupakan salah satu usaha untuk mengembangkan profesionalisme guru. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui kemampuan kepala sekolah dalam menyusun program supervisi pengajaran, teknik-teknik supervisi pengajaran dan faktor pendukung dan penghambat pe

Performance of the school principals as the supervisor is efforts to developing the potential that teacher have through training with the expectation of improving the quality of teaching process in the school. The purposed of this research to know : 1. The ability of school principals in plan supervision, 2. The strategy school principals to do supervision, 3. The policy of the school principals in the following up the result of supervision and 4. The supporting factors and inhibitions of the supervisions. Method used in this research are descriptive with a qualitative approach. Technique the data collection was done through observation, interview and documentation. The result finding shows that, 1. The ability of the school principals in program planning supervision teaching is very good to determine the purposed of the supervision, tell the completeness of administration to be prepare for teacher, and planning supervision arranged by involving all teacher who conducted at the beginning the school year, the system implementation of supervision academic done by school principals un-systematic and not in accordance with the schedule that has been in degree. 3. Policy of the school principals in following uf the result of supervision done by making training for making the teaching material, curriculum workshop, giving motivation an input to lack of shortage of in class observation, and giving permission for the following up. The barrier factors comprise of the low of competence supervision academic the school principal, inadequate facilities, and workload the school principal so solid, while the supporting factors principals and teachers have the commitment, motivation, and a sense family bond.Keyword : academic supervision, performance of the school principals and teacher professionalism.Abstrak: Kinerja kepala sekolah sebagai supervisor merupakan suatu usaha untuk mengembangkan potensi yang dimiliki oleh guru melalui pembinaan dengan harapan dapat meni

Academic supervision applied the principal of course very effective, because it can provide support, guidance and coaching to teachers to enable them to work better in guiding learners and be able to improve its performance in improving learning in schools. The research objective was to determine the effectiveness of the implementation of academic supervision by principals in improving teacher performance, through: (1) academic supervision program; (2) The academic supervision and (3) evaluation of the implementation of academic supervision. This study used a qualitative approach with descriptive methods. Data was collected through interviews, observation, and documentation. Subjects were principals, supervisors and teachers at SMK Negeri 1 Meulaboh. The research found that:(1) The academic supervision principals compiled refer to the identification of the problems faced by teachers based on the results of monitoring the previous year as the assessment, coaching and helping the difficulties teachers, and SWOT analysis, then poured into a program Plan Supervisory Academic (PSA) according to the needs of teachers; (2) The implementation of academic supervision by school principals is done in three stages: a preliminary survey prior to supervise academic, classroom visits to determine the course of learning, and reviewing the results of the class visits and provide appropriate solutions in overcoming problems that dihdapi teacher; and (3) exercising their evaluation of academic supervision by the principal, includes evaluation of the job description and evaluation of documentary evidence, by means of direct view of the evidence that the task has been undertaken by teachers and then provide input if there are errors or deficiencies. Expected principals to be able to direct and supervise the performance of teachers, especially through the program, implementation and evaluation of effective supervision and efficiency, so that student performance can be improved.

This study aimed to determine source of financing, planning, implementation and monitoring of education financing at State Junior High School No. 19 Percontohan (Pilot School) of Banda Aceh. This study used descriptive method with qualitative approach. The subjects of the study were the principal, vice principal, treasurer, teachers and school committees. The techniques used to collect the data were interviews, observation, and documentation. The results showed that: (1) Sources of financing for education were from the state budget, City budget, families, and society; (2) Financial planning of education or RAPBS was done by: that the principal directed vice principal, treasurer and school committee considered the input and output elements; (3) The implementation of education financing included: financing the disadvantaged students, pay honorariums of casual teachers, professional development (training), building maintenance, bought the tools of lessons, sports, arts, finance daily test of general and school, remedial, enrichment and procurement of mobile; and (4) Monitoring education financing was done by Inspectorate Team in Banda Aceh, the School Committee and functional supervision by the regional Inspectorate. The disadvantage was that in the financial planning of education had not been able to accommodate a variety of conditions and background of the students; not all teachers and donors were involved. Besides, the society is less concerned about the education financing that has been presented on the billboard.Keywords: management, finance, and educationAbstrak : Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui sumber pembiayaan, perencanaan, pelaksanaan dan pengawasan pembiayaan pendidikan pada SMP Negeri 19 Percontohan Banda Aceh. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Subjek penelitian adalah: kepala sekolah, wakil kepala sekolah, bendahara, guru dan komite sekolah. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan: wawancara, obs

The purpose of this study was to determine the program, implementation, follow-up and the obstacles faced by principals in the implementation of academic supervision in improving the professional competence of teachers. This study used descriptive qualitative approach. The technique of data collection used were observation, interviews, and documentation. Subjects of study were principals, vice-principals, teachers and supervisors. Data were analyzed with data reduction, data display, conclusion drawing and verification. The results showed that: 1) Programs are arranged at the beginning of each school year based on the results of the follow-up implementation of supervision in the previous year based on the instructions given by the Department of Education. Teachers were not fully involved in setting the programs and it was planned twice in one semester. 2) Implementation of supervision begins with socialization activities for teachers and pre-observation meeting. Supervision activities were carried out by providing guidance and direction on the preparation of learning tools, learning implementation and evaluation of learning through meetings, discussions, individual meetings and classroom observations. Principal recorded all activities on a classroom observation on instrument sheet that will be used as input and consideration for guidance in improving teachers' professional competence. 3) Follow-up is done through discussions between principals and teachers to provide feedback from the results of classroom observation. Results of follow-up were concluded with concrete steps contextually as a way out of the problems faced by teachers in the learning process and as an improvement in the future to improve the quality of learning. 4) Obstacles faced were the supervision schedule was often shifted, the use of teaching methods were still centered on the teacher, the teacher felt clumsy when supervised and teachers were less active in seeking new information about

the competence of the supervision of the head of the school is among the factors that influenced the increase in the professionalism of teachers. This research aims to describe: (1) the competence of the head of school in drawing up the programme of academic supervision to enhance the professionalism of teachers, (2) the principal kompetesi in implementing the program for academic supervision to enhance the professionalism of teachers, and (3) the competence of the head of school in following up on the results of academic supervision to enhance the professionalism of teachers. This research uses descriptive qualitative approach method. Data collection techniques used through observation, interviews, and documentation study. The subject of research is the principal, vice principal, teachers, and school superintendent. The results showed that: (1) the head of the SMA Negeri I Kuala Batee Southwest Aceh District have demonstrated a good supervision of competence, in particular in drawing up a program of academic supervision against the teacher. It can be seen from the supervision of the program has been compiled with set goals, objectives and implementation procedures of supervision, but less cooperation with the school superintendent. (2) the head of the SMA Negeri I Kuala Batee Southwest Aceh District have demonstrated a good supervision of competence, in particular in implementing the programme of academic supervision. It can be seen from the application of the models, approaches, and techniques of supervision that are run, but in the application of the techniques of observation has not been fitted with observation guidelines and (3) the competence of the supervision of the head of the SMA Negeri I Kuala Batee Southwest Aceh district in particular in follow-up on the results of supervision is still lacking. This can be from the follow-up results of supervision is performed by evaluating and providing feedback through individual talks with teachers who are

This study aimed to determine the teacher’s pedagogical competence in lesson planning, learning process, and in improving students’ motivation. To achieve these objectives, this study used descriptive qualitative approach. Data were collected through interview, observation, and documentation. The procedures of data analysis were data reduction data display and data verification. The subjects of this study were the principal, vice-principals and teachers. The results showed that: (1) the teachers’ pedagogical competence in lesson planning was done by preparing a lesson plan draft, but some teachers did not bring the lesson plan during the learning process so that the learning objectives were not maximally achieved; (2) the teachers’ pedagogical competence in the learning process was done by comprehending and solidifying the understanding on a number of learning materials contained in textbooks. Whereas in the learning process, there were for classroom management and undisciplined use of time: and (3) the teachers’ pedagogical competence in improving student motivation was done by providing opportunities for students to be actively involved in the use of information and coomunication technology facilities in the achievementof learning goals, communicating effectively with learners, and conducting reflectieve action to improve the quality of learning.Keywords: Pedagogical competence and learning motivationAbstrak: Peneli­tian ini bertujuan untuk kompetensi pedagogik guru dalam perencanaan pembelajaran, proses pembelajaran, dan dalam meningkatkan motivasi belajar siswa. Untuk mencapai tujuan tersebut, penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif. Teknik pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui wawancara, observasi, dan studi dokumentasi. Prosedur analisis data adalah reduksi data, display data, dan verifikasi. Sedangkan subjek penelitian adalah kepala sekolah, wakil kepala sekolah, dan guru. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa: (1) Kompetensi pedagogik guru dalam

This paper presents a novel design of a wireless power transmission system which transfers an appreciable amount of electrical power wirelessly using low resonant frequency, with an excellent efficiency, and has a very low cost implementation. The designs of induction coils at both source and receiver sides are also presented in this paper. The mechanism for power transmission is through electro-magnetic induction. Also an immense knowledge of electronics was applied in order to design the source and receiver between which this transfer took place. In order to realize this method an AC-AC converter, and AC-DC rectifier were used at source and receiver sides respectively along with the resonant circuits. The work was carried out by the experimental setup and results demonstrate that proposed system design can successfully transfer the amount of power that can be used in many practical applications., QC 20220124

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This paper proposes a generalised commutation strategy suitable for matrix-based isolated AC/AC conversion stages in Solid State Transformers for use whenever there is nonnegligible leakage inductance in the isolation transformer. The standard 4-step commutation used in matrix converters can no longer be applied when transformer leakage inductance is present, as overrated switching devices or dissipative snubbers would be necessary, reducing the attractiveness of the topologies that include matrix-based isolated AC/AC stages. A case study of a single-phase AC/AC converter has been investigated in detail to demonstrate the application of the proposed commutation method to a topology that has recently been identified as the potential building block for future multi-modular AC/AC converters for grid applications. The proposed leakage-inductance-tolerant commutation strategy is based on the definition of a current decoupling phase in the commutation sequence and only needs suitable timing of the commutation steps, without high bandwidth voltage or current measurements. Matching simulations and experimental results from a 3kW laboratory scale prototype are presented to support the effectiveness of the proposed strategy.

The direct matrix converter has twenty-seven available switching states which implies that the implementation of predictive control techniques in this converter requires high computational cost while an adequate selection of weighting factors in order to control both input and output sides of the converter. In this paper, two indirect model predictive current control strategies are proposed in order to simplify the computational cost while avoiding the use of weighting factors. Both methods are based on the fictitious dc-link concept, which has been used in the past for the classical modulation and control techniques of the direct matrix converter. Simulated results confirm the feasibility of the proposed techniques demonstrating that they are an alternative to classical predictive control strategies for the direct matrix converter.

The Future Electrical Network will be based on the integration of different renewable energy sources. In this regard, modular bidirectional power converter architectures will get special attention. Galvanic isolation in such power converter architectures plays a vital role in confining faults. This paper presents a new AC/AC converter concept suitable for Solid State Transformer (SST) applications. The basic operation of the topology is first presented, followed by the development of suitable modulation, commutation and protection methods. The proposed idea is validated in simulation with PLECS.

The increased penetration of renewable energy sources and other distributed energy sources has been seen nowadays. In this scenario power converters play a crucial role by providing the interconnection of these energy sources. This paper presents new configurations of power converters for grid interconnection systems. Several topologies are analyzed which are based on isolated ac-ac matrix converters.

The Future Global Electricity Network is expected to have large integration of renewable generators, and to be widely interconnected. As a consequence, the multi-modular bidirectional AC/AC power conversion architectures will play a major role in improving power flow controllability, power quality and availability. This paper proposes a new power converter topology suitable for AC/AC conversion in medium and high voltage applications, based on the matrix concept. The proposed topology combines the advantages of matrix converters with those of modular converters, providing high modularity and scalability, reduced weight and volume, minimum number of conversion stages and minimum energy storage. Galvanic isolation is provided at medium frequency, reducing size and cost of the transformer. The paper introduces the converter concept and commutation strategy and proposes a modified Venturini modulation in order to provide a per-switching cycle control of the Volt-Second balance across the transformer.

In recent years, power electronics has evolved dra¬matically due to their importance in power extracted manage¬ment from renewable sources. In this paper an overview of grid interconnection systems with galvanic isolation is presented. The most common used topologies from AC/AC, AC/DC, DC/AC and AC/AC conversion are analyzed y summarized in order to provide a good understanding of the existing technologies.

The direct matrix converter has twenty-seven available switching states which implies that the implementation of predictive control techniques in this converter requires high computational cost while an adequate selection of weighting factors in order to control both input and output sides of the converter. In this paper, two indirect model predictive current control strategies are proposed in order to simplify the computational cost while avoiding the use of weighting factors. Both methods are based on the fictitious dc-link concept, which has been used in the past for the classical modulation and control techniques of the direct matrix converter. Simulated results confirm the feasibility of the proposed techniques demonstrating that they are an alternative to classical predictive control strategies for the direct matrix converter.

The Future Electrical Network will be based on the integration of different renewable energy sources. In this regard, modular bidirectional power converter architectures will get special attention. Galvanic isolation in such power converter architectures plays a vital role in confining faults. This paper presents a new AC/AC converter concept suitable for Solid State Transformer (SST) applications. The basic operation of the topology is first presented, followed by the development of suitable modulation, commutation and protection methods. The proposed idea is validated in simulation with PLECS.

The increased penetration of renewable energy sources and other distributed energy sources has been seen nowadays. In this scenario power converters play a crucial role by providing the interconnection of these energy sources. This paper presents new configurations of power converters for grid interconnection systems. Several topologies are analyzed which are based on isolated ac-ac matrix converters.

In recent years, power electronics has evolved dra¬matically due to their importance in power extracted manage¬ment from renewable sources. In this paper an overview of grid interconnection systems with galvanic isolation is presented. The most common used topologies from AC/AC, AC/DC, DC/AC and AC/AC conversion are analyzed y summarized in order to provide a good understanding of the existing technologies.

The Future Global Electricity Network is expected to have large integration of renewable generators, and to be widely interconnected. As a consequence, the multi-modular bidirectional AC/AC power conversion architectures will play a major role in improving power flow controllability, power quality and availability. This paper proposes a new power converter topology suitable for AC/AC conversion in medium and high voltage applications, based on the matrix concept. The proposed topology combines the advantages of matrix converters with those of modular converters, providing high modularity and scalability, reduced weight and volume, minimum number of conversion stages and minimum energy storage. Galvanic isolation is provided at medium frequency, reducing size and cost of the transformer. The paper introduces the converter concept and commutation strategy and proposes a modified Venturini modulation in order to provide a per-switching cycle control of the Volt-Second balance across the transformer.

With the advancements in the semiconductor device technologies and computational power, the Solid State Transformer (SST) has emerged as a key research topic due to potential bene ts in power density and controllability when compared to linefrequency transformers. However, in the applications where the power density is a key priority, for example traction and space limited grid applications, the conventional AC to AC SST solution is not suitable because the DC-link capacitors put a constraint on further improvements in the power density. A compact single-stage AC to AC SST solution can be achieved by eliminating the intermediate DC-link stages. This thesis investigates the feasibility of a new single-stage AC to AC SST based threephase Modular Isolated Matrix Converter (MIMC) topology. The MIMC topology, proposed in this thesis, is obtained by using single-phase Medium Frequency (MF) isolated AC to AC converters as a cell. The arrangement of the cells in the MIMC is derived from the concept of the Direct Matrix Converter. The MIMC achieves structural modularity due to the repetition of the single-phase isolated AC to AC converters. The modularity within the converter is advantageous in terms of hardware implementation, maintenance and it also opens up possibilities of stacking cells based on the required power level. However, as each cell in the MIMC is isolated via a MF transformer, this causes challenges in modulation and commutation. In this thesis, both scalar and vector type of modulation methods are developed respecting the presence of MF transformers in the MIMC. The standard commutation approach which assumes voltage source at one side and current source at the other is no longer applicable in the presence of practical transformers with non-negligible leakage inductance. Therefore, a leakage tolerant current commutation method which guarantees safe current commutation, without an auxiliary clamp circuit or high band-width measurements, is also proposed. The

The direct matrix converter has twenty-seven available switching states which implies that the implementation of predictive control techniques in this converter requires high computational cost while an adequate selection of weighting factors in order to control both input and output sides of the converter. In this paper, two indirect model predictive current control strategies are proposed in order to simplify the computational cost while avoiding the use of weighting factors. Both methods are based on the fictitious dc-link concept, which has been used in the past for the classical modulation and control techniques of the direct matrix converter. Simulated results confirm the feasibility of the proposed techniques demonstrating that they are an alternative to classical predictive control strategies for the direct matrix converter.

The Future Electrical Network will be based on the integration of different renewable energy sources. In this regard, modular bidirectional power converter architectures will get special attention. Galvanic isolation in such power converter architectures plays a vital role in confining faults. This paper presents a new AC/AC converter concept suitable for Solid State Transformer (SST) applications. The basic operation of the topology is first presented, followed by the development of suitable modulation, commutation and protection methods. The proposed idea is validated in simulation with PLECS.

The increased penetration of renewable energy sources and other distributed energy sources has been seen nowadays. In this scenario power converters play a crucial role by providing the interconnection of these energy sources. This paper presents new configurations of power converters for grid interconnection systems. Several topologies are analyzed which are based on isolated ac-ac matrix converters.

In recent years, power electronics has evolved dra¬matically due to their importance in power extracted manage¬ment from renewable sources. In this paper an overview of grid interconnection systems with galvanic isolation is presented. The most common used topologies from AC/AC, AC/DC, DC/AC and AC/AC conversion are analyzed y summarized in order to provide a good understanding of the existing technologies.

The Future Global Electricity Network is expected to have large integration of renewable generators, and to be widely interconnected. As a consequence, the multi-modular bidirectional AC/AC power conversion architectures will play a major role in improving power flow controllability, power quality and availability. This paper proposes a new power converter topology suitable for AC/AC conversion in medium and high voltage applications, based on the matrix concept. The proposed topology combines the advantages of matrix converters with those of modular converters, providing high modularity and scalability, reduced weight and volume, minimum number of conversion stages and minimum energy storage. Galvanic isolation is provided at medium frequency, reducing size and cost of the transformer. The paper introduces the converter concept and commutation strategy and proposes a modified Venturini modulation in order to provide a per-switching cycle control of the Volt-Second balance across the transformer.

The direct matrix converter has twenty-seven available switching states which implies that the implementation of predictive control techniques in this converter requires high computational cost while an adequate selection of weighting factors in order to control both input and output sides of the converter. In this paper, two indirect model predictive current control strategies are proposed in order to simplify the computational cost while avoiding the use of weighting factors. Both methods are based on the fictitious dc-link concept, which has been used in the past for the classical modulation and control techniques of the direct matrix converter. Simulated results confirm the feasibility of the proposed techniques demonstrating that they are an alternative to classical predictive control strategies for the direct matrix converter.