Proceedings of the 3rd Asian Education Symposium (AES 2018)

Fostering Students and Graduate Candidate Level of 21st Century Skills (A survey study conducted at a University)

Authors
Hadiyanto Hadiyanto, Muhaimin Muhaimin, Noferdiman Noferdiman, Syamsurizal Syamsurizal, Yuliusman Yuliusman, Nazurti Nazurti, Syaiful Syaiful
Corresponding Author
Hadiyanto Hadiyanto
Available Online April 2019.
DOI
10.2991/aes-18.2019.3How to use a DOI?
Keywords
21st century skills; soft skills; hard skills; teaching and learning; higher education
Abstract

This study is aimed to examine skills of 21st century students including three main skills; soft skill, hard skill and competitiveness. Soft skill was classified into six sub-skills; communication, IT, numeracy, learning how to learn, problem solving, and teamwork. Ten indicators indicated hard skills, while competitiveness includes entrepreneurship, life-long learning and employability. Students’ self-report questionnaire was distributed to 600 hundred of the second to fifth year students at Science Technology, Humanities, Economic and Business, and Husbandry faculty. As many as 507 filled questionnaires were returned. The findings show that the overall 21st century skills of students were at average level. Soft skills, hard skills and competitiveness of students were at average level. All of sub components of soft skills and competitiveness were also at average level. These findings implied that the graduate candidate was not prepared enough with 21st century skills, which are very urgent to be possessed today. The institution must think about the new curriculum policy to embed 21st skills into teaching and learning process.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd Asian Education Symposium (AES 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
April 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-709-6
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/aes-18.2019.3How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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