IMPROVING THE QUALITY OFPRACTICE LEARNING THROUGH COMPETENCY-BASED LEARNING WITH COLLABORATIVE SKILL APPROACH ON VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

Learning is the core of education. It means solving the problem on technology and vocational education cannot be separated from the demand of innovations that focus on the improvement of learning quality. Competency-based learning of practice with a collaborative approach is one of learning innovations which is relevant to be conducted in vocational education. It is in line with the main objective of vocational education i.e. to provide productive competence for the learners to become graduates who are ready to competein the corporate world. Principally, the implementation of competency-based learning of practice with a collaborative approach is by dividing the students into groups. Each member of the group has the task to workon one component,which is then combined into its group to be one unit. The advantages of this learning model were: 1) the existence of positive interdependence among learners, 2) promoting intensive face-to-face interaction, 3) developing a sense of personal responsibility, and 4) stimulating students’ collaborative skills