Basic skills and Generic Competency of Postgraduate Students When They Designing Biology Laboratory Worksheets
Sri Anggraeni1) and Bambang Supriatno1)

1Departemen Pendidikan Biologi, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Dr. Setia Budhi No. 229, Bandung 40154, Indonesia

Abstract

Basic skill is the ability to work in the laboratory as an integrated science process. Generic competence is the competence with the workplace performance. Both competencies are needed by various and diverse students. This study aims at how to develop both these competencies through lectures on the Development of Biological Practicum when they did project-based learning. Students were given the task to analyze the laboratory worksheet that used in the school, then tested themselves in the laboratory and reconstructed it. Based on the experience, students were given the task to design the new lab activity worksheet. This study uses two classes of students as participants in the academic year 2016/2017 with two lecturers as mentors. The results showed that the basic student competence is an insufficient category with the average 56.4, standard deviation 16.1, while generic competence is in good category the average 77.8, and standard deviation 12.6. The diversity of students can be seen from the width of standard deviation variability, this is due to the diversity of students coming from several of the Indonesian archipelagoes besides coming from different universities both public and private.

Keywords: basic competence, generic competence, biology laboratory worksheet

Topic: 5. Biology Education