Mastering the soft skills in the implementation of work based learning among community college students

International Conference on Science and Applied Science (Engineering and Educational Science) 2016

物理学;工业技术;教育

Ali, Azita Binti^1 ; Rosli, Doria Islamiah^1 ; Sujadi, Imam^2 ; Usodo, Budi^2 ; Perdana, Fengky Adie^3

Faculty of Technical and Vocational Education, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Johor, Batu Pahat

86400, Malaysia^1

Mathematics Education Department, Sebelas Maret University, Indonesia^2

Physics Department, Sebelas Maret University, Indonesia^3

关键词: Communication skills;    Descriptive statistics;    Educational institutions;    Entrepreneurial skills;    Ministry of Education;    Problem solving skills;    Quantitative research;    Statistical packages;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/795/1/012004/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/795/1/012004

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Emphasizing the aspects of soft skills among students is an important element to produce graduates who are competitive when facing any situations in the workplace. Various efforts have been taken by the Ministry of Education (MOE) and the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia (MOHE) to improve the education system in Malaysia. Learning methods were introduced to ensure the education systems achieve the educational goals and to produce individuals who are well-balanced with spiritually, emotionally and physically. However, the issue of unemployment among graduates often being spoken in the community and it was regarded as a failure of educational institutions to produce quality graduates. Thus, the method of Work-Based Learning (WBL) was seen as a way to improve the soft skills among the graduates. The study was conducted using quantitative research survey as the design of the study used a questionnaire that was adapted as an instrument. Data were analysed using Statistical Package of Social Science (SPSS) version 20.0. The respondents were consisted of 97 students who attended WBL programs at the community college. Data were obtained from questionnaires using descriptive statistics for the calculation of the mean and one-way ANOVA test. The findings of the level of soft skills among community colleges were high where the communication skills obtained (mean = 4.1218), critical and problem solving skills (mean = 4.0946), teamwork skills (mean = 4.2297), learning and information management (mean = 4.1219), entrepreneurial skills (mean = 4.0240), professional ethics and moral (mean = 3.9410) and leadership skills (mean = 4.2104). The findings also showed the differences in term of communication skills among the community colleges. This study was significant to the community colleges to identify the level of soft skills among students who performed WBL methods in order to reduce the number of unemployment.