Developing students' collaboration skills through project-based learning in statistics

Abstract

In the era of Industrial Revolution 4.0, teachers are required to facilitate learning that provides opportunities for students to develop essential skills needed in the real working world. Employees need to perform strong collaboration skills to work productively on a team to accomplish complex assignments. Project Based Learning (PBL) is one of the learning models that give opportunities for students to develop collaboration skills. This study aims to describe how students' collaboration skills develop through PBL in statistics. The design of learning activities and the rubric of collaboration skills were adopted from the 21st Century Learning Design (CLD) framework developed by SRI International in collaboration with Microsoft Partners in Learning (2012). In this study, students were carrying out the project with the theme "Statistics in School". During the project, students were able to apply statistics concepts through data collection, data representation, and data analysis. The results of this study indicate that students' collaboration skills have developed to level 5 of the 21st-CLD rubric. The following indicators were representing the results: students make substantive decisions based on group agreement, students take an important role in implementing the project, students work also depend on each other in order to complete the project.