Development of Standardized Online Test to Assess the Students’ 21st-Century Skills Setiya Utari (a), Jessie Manopo (a*), Selly Feranie (a), Eka Cahya Prima (b), Bambang Heru Iswanto (c)
a) Department of Physics Education, Indonesia University of Education
Jalan Setiabudi 229, Bandung 40154, Indonesia
*jessiemanopo[at]upi.edu
b) International Program on Science Education, Indonesia University of Education
Jalan Setiabudi 229, Bandung 40154, Indonesia
c) Department of Physics, State University of Jakarta
Jalan Rawamangun Muka 1, Jakarta 13220, Indonesia
Abstract
21st-Century Skills are such essential skills to be prepared for professionalism needed nowadays. Therefore, in some developed and developing countries, education curricula were more emphasizing to exercise these skills. However, to achieve this objective, we have to build a standard assessment test to make sure that students have accomplished these skills. The skills should relate to laboratory problem solving, and the test has to be integrally connected to laboratory activities. This research attempted developing a set of 21st-century skills test tested to some teachers in Jawa Barat with a sample of 45 teachers. They have been teaching physics subject for more than five years. The problems presented refers to the design standardized by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The test consisted of 10 questions involving the concept comprehension test, and 16 problems involving 21st-century skills test with the rubric developed by Suzie Boss. The test was designed using Edmodo and Moodle platforms. The research result showed that the ten problems involving concept comprehension have high validity, 0.628. As the 21st-century skills test, there are some problems not validated, such as the critical thinking skills related to criticize a result. Moreover, communicating skills test about an issue to explain the project description, the additional feature about question to be spoken was required for kids who possess the auditory learning style. The collaboration and creativity skills test problems have been validated well. Therefore, some problems on this proposed standard test should be further improved by providing the video-based experiments, the scientific illustration regarding physical phenomena, the laboratory experiment data, and the scientific articles.
