SKILLS BASED TEACHING LEARNING METHODOLOGY ( SBTLM ) ARISING THE ENTREUPREUNEURSHIP AS AN EFFORT TO IMPROVE WIDYATAMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATES’ COMPETITIVENESS
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2010-11-09
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Widyatama University, in its effort to improve graduates’ competitiveness towards the creation of job fields (entrepreneurship), has improved Soft Skills Based Teaching Learning Methodology (SBTLM) through the curricular activities. Professional success is not only determined by the higher academic achievement but also the existence of soft skill performances. In 2002, National Association of Colleges and Employers of America concludes that Annual Grade is not the only important thing in the world of work. Generally, users require graduates with 82% of soft skill performance and 18% only for their hard skills.
This research is aimed at studying SBTLM through the Student Centre Learning (SCL) approach in students’ activities that improve their soft skill performance. It also studies the development of the soft skills through SBTLM by inserting these soft skills to the entrepreneurship-potential subjects so that it may, at the same time, improve the graduates’ competitiveness. Empirical paired observation method and the approach used is exsperimental design, kind of longitudinal testing.
The results show that SBTLM with the SCL approach through curricular activities does improve students’ soft skills and improves graduates’ competitiveness as well.
At this point, SBTLM is not performed optimally for various obstacles. They are: less improving academic in operational concept into the learning process, the lack of understanding and concerns from both students and lecturers to the new paradigm of learning process, less supporting aids for the measurement of the soft skill performance, and the structure and time allocated for the execution itself. However, there needs to be a concrete way to overcome this: comprehend the concept, more times and aids for the execution, and intense socialization.
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Soft Skills, SBTLM, Entrepreneur, Competitiveness