Developing Instrument to Measure Student’s Capability for Future Work in Industry 4.0 at Vocational Education Culinary Program

Abstract

Contradictions and levels of difficulty in the industrial era 4.0, especially culinary changes occur very quickly which requires humans to have the capability, to become individuals who have the skills to act. This study provides an assessment to measure the capabilities of vocational education students in statistics through instruments that have been designed and examine the competencies and soft skills that affect capabilities for future work in industry 4.0. The instrument was developed through mobile technology using Google Form and this research was conducted using quantitative methods and analyzed by confirmatory factor analysis. A total of 245 respondents from vocational education students in the culinary program were observed using a questionnaire that had been designed. Based on the results of the test analysis of exogenous confirmatory factors and endogenous indicators of capability (literacy, numeracy, ICT, critical and creative thinking, personal and social skills, and ethical understanding) showed significant value, while the reliability relationship with Cronbach alpha showed values> 0.06 which means significant. Based on the results of the goodness of fit test, this research model is fit which that means the mobile-based instruments that have been developed in this study are feasible to test the capabilities of students in vocational education at culinary programs

CC Thinker: Mobile-based Assessment to Train Creative and Critical Thinking in Students

“…The challenge of the students in the 21st century, which is also a skill deemed to be very important by many researchers and teachers is how the students can think creatively and critically [1]. Both skills are also important in preparing the students to enter the professional world as well as for the future [2]. Creative thinking is a skill of using the imagination to explore new ways to generate innovation [3], while critical thinking is a skill of proving a point using a strong analysis to solve a problem [4].…”