PENELUSURAN REFERENSI BERBASIS DIGITAL SEBAGAI PENINGKATAN SOFT SKILL MAHASISWA DALAM MENYELESAIKAN TUGAS AKHIR

ABSTRAKTujuan dilaksanakan kegiatan ini yakni untuk meningkatkan soft skill mahasiswa dalam (1) menentukan topik penelitian yang akan diajukan sebagi tugas akhir (skripsi), (2) mempermudah mahasiswa dalam menelusuri hasil penelitian relevan yang mendukung penelitiannya, (3) menghindari kegiatan plagiasi selama penyusunan hasil penelitian, dan (4) memudahkan mahasiswa dalam menulis rujukan dan menyusun daftar pustaka. Kegiatan ini diikuti sebanyak 80 mahasiswa semester akhir. Workshop merupakan metode yang ideal dilakukan oleh tim abdimas sehingga berjalan dengan lancar. Pada tahap akhir, peserta mengisi angket Skala Likert dengan 4 option untuk mengukur pemahaman dan kemampuan mahasiswa selama workshop berlangsung. Hasil angket menunjukkan sebanyak 91,27% mahasiswa sudah paham terhadap strategi penyusunan dan menyelesiakan tugas akhir, sedangkan sisanya sebesar 8,73% belum paham pada bagian menentukan uji statistik yang digunakan untuk menjawab hipotesis penelitian. Kata kunci: soft skill mahasiswa; referensi berbasis digital; penyusunan skripsi. ABSTRACTThe purpose of this activity is to improve student soft skills in (1) determining research topics to be submitted as a final project (thesis), (2) making it easier for students to trace relevant research results that support their research, (3) avoiding plagiarism activities during the preparation of results research, and (4) make it easier for students to write references and compile bibliography. This activity was attended by 80 final semester students. The workshop is an ideal method carried out by the Abdimas team so that it runs smoothly. In the final stage, participants filled out a Likert Scale questionnaire with four options to measure students' understanding and ability during the workshop. The results of the questionnaire showed as much as 91.27% of students had understood the strategy of preparing and completing the final project, while the remaining 8.73% did not understand the part of determining the statistical test used to answer the research hypothesis. Keywords: student soft skills; digital based reference; thesis compilation.

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INCULCATION OF SOFT SKILLS THROUGH CREDITED CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AMONG STUDENTS

International Journal of Education, Psychology and Counseling ◽

10.35631/ijepc.644003 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (44) ◽

pp. 30-37

Author(s):

Izwan Nizal Mohd Shaharanee ◽

Jastini Mohd Jamil ◽

Hussin Abdullah ◽

Azlizan Taib

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Soft Skills ◽

Higher Education Institutions ◽

Likert Scale ◽

Academic Excellence ◽

Soft Skill ◽

Average Value ◽

Ongoing Effort ◽

Proper Training ◽

The University

Education in Malaysia is an ongoing effort towards further developing the potential of individuals in a holistic and integrated manner to produce individuals who are intellectually, spiritually, emotionally, and physically balanced and harmonious, based on a firm belief in and devotion to God. This aspiration will not be successful if the emphasis is only given to academic excellence alone. Therefore, the co-curricular activities should also be embedded towards Higher Education Institutions (HEI) students in cultivating soft skill. Various co-curricular activities have been implemented at the university to offer valuable soft skills to students. But it is still a question how these soft skills are implemented, and how are the students' acceptance and understanding of the soft skills applied. Therefore, this study has been conducted to identify the effectiveness of students' soft skills after completing co-curricular activities. A questionnaire involving a total of 669 students was analysed. The result indicated the effectiveness of soft skills embedded within the co-curricular activities is high, with an average value of 5 (Likert Scale 1-7). However, some improvements are required to increase the effectiveness of soft skills to students. Co-curricular instructors/trainers need to have proper training on integrating soft skill in their courses. Providing good guidelines is vital to help the instructors/trainers develop suitable co-curricular activities for teaching delivery and evaluation. The instructors/trainers need to explain to students what soft skills they can obtain for each activity implemented. Additionally, to ensure students acquire the soft skill, they need to reflect on what they have learned and practices during co-curricular activities.

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INTERNALIZATION MODEL OF SOFT SKILL OF STATE DEFENSE FOR STUDENTS OF FACULTY OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES THROUGH INTEGRATIVE AND SUSTAINABLE ACTIVITIES

Jurnal Pertahanan & Bela Negara ◽

10.33172/jpbh.v9i3.641 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Machya Astuti Dewi ◽

Asep Saepudin ◽

Muharjono Muharjono ◽

Indro Herry Mulyanto ◽

Kurnia Arofah

Keyword(s):

Final Stage ◽

Soft Skills ◽

The State ◽

Institutional Research ◽

Soft Skill ◽

Political Sciences ◽

Extra Curricular Activities ◽

Third Stage ◽

New Students ◽

State Defense

This article is the result of institutional research, which aims to develop a model of internalization of state defense soft skills for FISIP students of UPN "Veteran" Yogyakarta who can graduate with state defense character. In this article, several stages were carried out, namely, the first stage in formulating the state defense soft skills derived from the basic values of state defense. The next stage is to arrange the forms of activities carried out starting to be accepted as new students until students being graduated. The activities consist of curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities. The final stage is to arrange the stages of internalization of state defense soft skills based on the forms of the activities. The internalization stage begins with the stages of introduction, awareness, reinforcement, actualization and further strengthening. This third stage is a model of internalization of integrated and sustainable state defense soft skills.Keywords: internalization, soft skills, state defense, integrated, sustainable

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The actual situation of students’ soft skills at some member universities of Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City

Science & Technology Development Journal - Social Sciences & Humanities ◽

10.32508/stdjssh.v5i2.641 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. first

Author(s):

Tuan Trong Hoang ◽

Long Duy Lai ◽

Doan Minh Nguyen ◽

Trung Thanh Nguyen

Keyword(s):

Extracurricular Activities ◽

Soft Skills ◽

Skill Training ◽

Ho Chi Minh City ◽

Actual Situation ◽

Soft Skill ◽

Research Results ◽

Social Sciences And Humanities ◽

National University ◽

The University

This study identifies and assesses the actual situation of students' soft skills at some member universities of Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City. To gather data, we surveyed 120 students at the University of Science and the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City. The research results show that (1) Students are interested in practicing soft skills; (2) Students learn soft skills mainly through social networks, core subjects, and a number of extracurricular activities; (3) There is a wide variety of proficiency levels of groups of soft skills (the group with the highest level of proficiency is teamwork skills, and the lowest one is the group of business skills); and (4) The factors which affect students' soft skill training are their attitude, awareness and relationships with friends around. To improve the effectiveness of soft skill training for students, training units should strengthen the integration of soft skill training content in their curricular and extra-curricular training programs. In addition, students constantly improve soft skills through classroom subjects in an active way; join extracurricular activities, clubs, etc. The research results are a channel of reference to help students to improve their soft skills in order to meet learning requirements and find jobs after graduation.

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THE ANALYSIS OF NURSING STUDENT SOFT SKILLS DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN LECTURE AND PROBLEM BASED LEARNING APPROACHES 2011

INDONESIAN NURSING JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND CLINIC (INJEC) ◽

10.24990/injec.v1i1.45 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Hilman Syarif

Keyword(s):

Nursing Students ◽

Nursing Student ◽

Soft Skills ◽

Comparative Method ◽

P Value ◽

Learning Approaches ◽

Soft Skill ◽

Student Centered Learning ◽

Hard Skills ◽

Significant Difference

Introduction: Student Centered Learning (SCL) is an effective method to develop student's soft skills and hard skills which are very important to support their successful carrier later. This research was conducted to identify the differences of developed soft skills between students who learn with PBL method and lecturing method. Methods: Descriptive comparative method was used in this study. The samples consisted of 15 students who learned with PBL method and 15 students who learned with lecturing method. The sample for this research was selected by random sampling method. Results: The result showed that the average of student's soft skills score in PBL method was 122.63, while student's soft skills score in lecturing method was 116.27. Discussion & Conclusion: There was significant difference of student's soft skills in PBL method and lecturing method (p value = 0.038; α = 0.05). This study recommends nursing program management, faculty of medicine at the University of Syiah Kuala keeps PBL method running and develops other methods which facilitate hard skills and soft skills are development. Keywords: nursing students, soft skill, PBL

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CSO Classifier 3.0: a scalable unsupervised method for classifying documents in terms of research topics

International Journal on Digital Libraries ◽

10.1007/s00799-021-00305-y ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Angelo Salatino ◽

Francesco Osborne ◽

Enrico Motta

Keyword(s):

Computer Science ◽

Digital Libraries ◽

Gold Standard ◽

Research Trends ◽

Alternative Methods ◽

Relevant Research ◽

Research Topics ◽

Research Papers ◽

Research Areas ◽

Unsupervised Approach

AbstractClassifying scientific articles, patents, and other documents according to the relevant research topics is an important task, which enables a variety of functionalities, such as categorising documents in digital libraries, monitoring and predicting research trends, and recommending papers relevant to one or more topics. In this paper, we present the latest version of the CSO Classifier (v3.0), an unsupervised approach for automatically classifying research papers according to the Computer Science Ontology (CSO), a comprehensive taxonomy of research areas in the field of Computer Science. The CSO Classifier takes as input the textual components of a research paper (usually title, abstract, and keywords) and returns a set of research topics drawn from the ontology. This new version includes a new component for discarding outlier topics and offers improved scalability. We evaluated the CSO Classifier on a gold standard of manually annotated articles, demonstrating a significant improvement over alternative methods. We also present an overview of applications adopting the CSO Classifier and describe how it can be adapted to other fields.

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Factors influencing real estate graduates soft skill gap in Nigeria

Property Management ◽

10.1108/pm-08-2020-0051 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Timothy Oluwafemi Ayodele ◽

Oluseyi Joshua Adegoke ◽

Kahilu Kajimo-Shakantu ◽

Olaitan Olaoye

Keyword(s):

Real Estate ◽

Soft Skills ◽

Primary Data ◽

Soft Skill ◽

Content Type ◽

High Expectations ◽

Business Negotiation ◽

Factors Influencing ◽

Skill Gaps ◽

Major Property

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to evaluate the soft skill gap of graduate employees, as well as the factors influencing the skill gaps of real estate graduates in the employment of real estate firms in Nigeria.Design/methodology/approachPrimary data were employed for the study. Close-ended questionnaire served on real estate employers in the two major property markets of Nigeria: Lagos and Abuja. From a total of 343 questionnaires administered, 172 (59.7%) questionnaires were retrieved. While data from the graduate employees were obtained via a web-based survey sent out to a total of 558 graduates, 119 (21.33%) responses were received. Descriptive and inferential statistical techniques were employed in the data analysis.FindingsThe findings showed that employers had high expectations for soft skillsets relating to responsibility, administrative, listening and communication skills. These have respective mean scores of 6.38, 6.33, 6.31 and 6.31 on a seven point scale. However, the results revealed significant skill gaps with skills such as logical thinking, business negotiation, responsibility and marketing. Further, the analysis revealed that factors influencing the skill gap, in decreasing order of influence, are training/professional mentors/remuneration, personal preferences/industry characteristics and curriculum/faculties.Practical implicationsReal estate graduate soft skills are investigated to uncover areas of emphasis and skill gaps. These outcomes could serve as important feedbacks for stakeholders towards improving real estate teaching and curriculum. The findings could also assist real estate graduates to know employers areas of emphasis in relation to graduate employability skills.Originality/valueExtant studies have reiterated and evaluated the soft skills gaps based on the perceptions of employers, faculties and institutions of higher learning. However, there is the need to investigate the perception of graduate employees, being the recipient and major stakeholders in the training process.

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Soft Skill Appraisal for Dentistry: A Tool for Positive Practice Management

The Journal of Contemporary Dental Practice ◽

10.5005/jp-journals-10024-1079 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 12 (6) ◽

pp. 475-478

Author(s):

Nadeem Husain ◽

Vikas Bendgude ◽

Piyush Tandon ◽

Bhushan Arun Jawale ◽

Nilima Thosar

Keyword(s):

Clinical Significance ◽

Soft Skills ◽

Learning Experience ◽

Practice Management ◽

Positive Energy ◽

Human Relationship ◽

Contributing Factors ◽

Soft Skill ◽

Doctoral Level ◽

Dental Practices

ABSTRACT Soft skills adoption is a learning experience for every practitioner and every academician. Author has expressed his opinion for success through educational and real values of soft skill. Soft skills behavior of individual and institution help in achieving desirable goals in general and specialty practices. Author also focused on some realistic soft skill methods for improvisation of practices for all doctor. Conclusion These skills indulge positive energy in human relationship for working in symbiosis and explore infinite capabilities at institutional and doctoral level. Here, some optimistic suggestions are given for improving dental practices and academic fulfillments. Clinical significance These soft skills help to organize, plan and manage, and track changes during the course of the growing dental practices. However, understanding of the soft skills in practice management, its simplicity and complexity and also, its contributing factors, helps practitioners to understand the dynamic, social and complex contexts of practices. It is really helpful to all practitioners to grow their practices using soft skills. How to cite this article Jawale BA, Bendgude V, Husain N, Thosar N, Tandon P. Soft Skill Appraisal for Dentistry: A Tool for Positive Practice Management. J Contemp Dent Pract 2011;12(6):475-478.

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Leading toward new horizons with soft skills

On the Horizon ◽

10.1108/oth-10-2017-0085 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 26 (3) ◽

pp. 247-259 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Nida’a K. AbuJbara ◽

Jody A. Worley

Keyword(s):

Leadership Development ◽

Leadership Training ◽

Soft Skills ◽

Research Literature ◽

Assessment Tools ◽

Measurement Development ◽

Next Generation ◽

Soft Skill ◽

Content Type ◽

Professional Disciplines

Purpose This paper aims to highlight the importance of soft skills for leadership and offers recommendations for soft skill development training for the next generation of leaders. Design/methodology/approach An integrated review of current research literature was conducted on management, leadership and soft skills to develop recommendations for integrating the development of soft skills in leadership development training protocol. Findings A one-size-fits-all approach does not work for soft skills development or measurement. Each soft skill is defined differently and should be assessed based on different behavioral actions. Progress in this area of measurement development will make a great impact on the use of soft skills. The development of assessment tools for the different soft skills across professional disciplines is assumed to enhance other aspects of transformational leadership such as coaching and mentoring. Research limitations/implications Current strategies for the assessment and measurement of soft skills present an obstacle for including these skills in current leadership training models. Practical implications The paper includes implications for the development of soft skills for the next generation of leaders and offers recommendations for integrating the development of soft skills in leadership training programs. Originality/value This paper fulfills an identified need to study how soft skills can be measured and assessed. This is important given that specific skills vary across professional disciplines and organizational contexts.

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PELAKSANAAN PENDIDIKAN SOFT SKILLS PADA POLITEKNIK LP3I JAKARTA

JURNAL LENTERA BISNIS ◽

10.34127/jrlab.v5i2.33 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 19

Author(s):

Dingot Hamonangan Ismail

Keyword(s):

Soft Skills ◽

Field Research ◽

Soft Skill

Pendidikan Indonesia masih bertahan dan terjebak dengan gaya hard skill. Padahal nyaris setiap hari, iklan lowongan pekerjaan di media cetak maupun di internet menggunakan kriteria-kriteria soft skill untuk merekrut pegawainya. Realitas inilah yang menjadikan pendidikan di Indonesia semakin memprihatinkan. Pengangguran terdidik membludak, padahal dunia industri kesulitan mencari pekerja “siap pakai” karena yang tersedia hanya para pencari kerja yang hanya siap bekerja saja. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk melihat Proses pembelajaran soft skills di Politeknik LP3I Jakarta. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan dengan menggunakan metode penelitian Studi Lapangan (Field Research). Teknik pengumpulan datanya, melalui observasi dan Studi Pustaka. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa konsep pendidikan soft skills di Politeknik LP3I Jakarta cukup bagus. Sayang dalam pelaksanaannya masih perlu dibenahi agar terjadi transformasi (penularan) soft skill bukan hanya pengajaran.Kata kunci: Soft skills, Dunia Industri, Politeknik LP3I Jakarta, Pelatihan, Kepribadian, Emosional Quetions

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An Examination of the Technology of Specialised Soft Skill Sets Deployed in Business Sectors from Four Different Regions of the Globe

Journal of Education and Culture Studies ◽

10.22158/jecs.v1n2p186 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 186

Author(s):

Thi Thu Hang Truong ◽

Ronald S. Laura ◽

Kylie Shaw

Keyword(s):

International Business ◽

Business School ◽

Soft Skills ◽

School Curriculum ◽

Major Research ◽

Business Professionals ◽

Soft Skill ◽

Skill Sets ◽

The World ◽

Business Sectors

Our central objective in this paper is twofold: first, to examine the scholarly literature on the technological importance of soft skills in Business, and second, to review the major research studies on the views of employers and the industries they serve regarding the specific character and combination sets of key soft skills best suited for business professionals located in four distinct and economically vibrant major business regions of the world. The key findings have been distilled from the literature and analysed to identify patterns of congruence, with the aim of cataloguing reasonably discrete combinatory sets of soft skills ideally suited to the specific business priorities which characterise these four different regions. The concluding section of the paper will consider the extent to which these distinct skill sets can be pedagogically developed in such a way that they become deeply embedded as foundational in the creation of an international business school curriculum, featuring five discrete sets of soft skills, each of which is ideally constructed for one of the four different regions.

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