A Preliminary Research to Develop 21th Century Worksheet

Abstract

Nowadays, the life of the world requires education graduates who master the competences of the 21stcentury skills. These skills include a critical thinking, creative thinking, problem-solving, collaborative, literacy, and information technology. In order to master the 21st century skills are required a student worksheet that involve them to cultivate their ability and capacity in high order thinking skills. The results of the study showed that student worksheet that was used in schools were still oriented to low-thinking skills. The purpose of this research is to develop a worksheet based on the 21st century skills. The student worksheets are do not only focus on the concept mastery and comprehension but also build knowledge, skill, and attitude according to the 21stcentury demands. The design of this research was the ADDIE model, includs analysis, design, develop, implementation, and evaluation. Research subjects were limited high school students and as an expert validator Lecturer development of teaching materials who have an experienced at least 5 years. Data were collected with an open questionnaire for validators and closed questionnaires for students. The analysis was done descriptively. The results of the development show that there are seven steps to developing student worksheet based on the 21st-century skills competence. The six steps are: (1) determine the competence or goal to be achieved; (2) describe competencies into high-level thinking indicators, (3) identify the 21st century skills need to be nurtured; (4) describes selected 21st century skills as achievable indicators; (5) integrating curriculum competency indicators with 21st century skills indicators; (6) formulate work steps to achieve the learning objectives; (7) to write down the whole work steps of the worksheet. Keywords—Worksheet; Twenty-century skills.