The Create Skills of Vocational Students to Design a Product: Comparison Project Based Learning Versus Cooperative Learning-Project Based Learning

The graduates of vocational education are no longer expected to have only applicative skills that are limited ability to work competently. The skills of vocational education graduates should arrive at the skills to design a product that contributes to the nation's competitive ability. This study aims to see the comparison of the create skills of the students in the learning activities with the implementation of Project Based Learning (PjBL) and Cooperative-Project Based Learning (CPjBL) model. This study carried out an experimental method by comparing the two research groups. The research data was obtained by authentic assessment technique on the product of student project task result. Based on the study showed that there is a significant difference between the class with the implementation of PjBL and C-PjBL model. The average create skills of the student with the implementation of the C-PjBL model is higher, this is based on the syntax of the C-PjBL model which provides an opportunity for students to learn the papers, so the students have understood the steps design of a product. From the results of this study can be concluded that the C-PjBL model is effective in developing the create skills students. Keywords—create skills; project-based learning; cooperative learning; cooperative-project based learning; vocational education; vocational students; experiment research; design a product