Guided Note Taking Strategy with PowerPoint to Enhance Vocational Students' Interest in Economic Actions, Motives, and Principles

Vocational students are not very interested in economics, which makes vocational education difficult. This study aims to determine how effective the teaching method guided by PowerPoint media is to increase the interest of BDP students in class X of SMK Negeri 2 Nganjuk on the material of economic actions, motivations, and principles. The study used a pre-experimental design with one group pretest-posttest and involved 34 students selected through a random sample group. Data were analyzed by paired t-test after the learning interest questionnaire was used. Results showed a significant increase in students' learning interest; the t-count value (5.5334) was greater than the t-table value (1.668). Each metric indicating student learning interest, feelings of happiness, engagement, interest and attention all increased. On average, these increased from 32.76 to 76.62. These findings confirm the effectiveness of the strategy in increasing learning interest and show how important it is to innovate in vocational education. This study provides suggestions for teacher competency development as well as further research on how academic achievement and job readiness of vocational students are affected in the long run.