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THE DEVELOPMENT OF CORE COMPETENCIES AMONG ECONOMIC STUDENTS IN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MALAYSIA (UKM) AND INDONESIA (UI)
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Universitas Jambi
Author
Hadiyanto, Hadiyanto
Subject
L Education (General) 
Datestamp
2020-04-07 04:17:32 
Abstract :
This study aims to investigate core competencies development namely communication skill, IT skill, numeracy, learning how to learn, problem solving, working with others, and subject specific competencies at Faculty of Economics and Business Management of National University of Malaysia (FEP UKM) and Faculty of Economics of National University of Indonesia (FE UI). This survey research was generated by collecting 334 questionnaires from students of FEP UKM and 355 questionnaires from students of FE UI. Students? focus group discussion and teaching syllabus were utilized to further describe and examine students? core competencies development. Descriptive findings show that students? FE UI obtained higher mean score of core competencies compared with students? of FEP UKM. The findings of inferential statistics by MANOVA confirmed that FE UI enhanced students? IT, numeracy, learning how to learn, problem solving, working with others and specific subject content competencies stronger than FEP of UKM. Comparison between FEP UKM and FE UI according to department decided that students of Business Management of FEP UKM performed their learning how to learn, problem solving, specific subject content, and overall core competencies better than business management of FE UI, while the students of economics of FE UI performed communication skill, IT skill, numeracy, learning how to learn, problem solving, working with others, and subject content competencies and overall core competencies stronger than students of economics FEP UKM. Results of multiple regressions indicated that specific subject content (r2=.124. and ?=.312), learning how to learn (r2=.022. and ?=.241) and numeracy (r2=.013. and ?=.154) predicted students Cumulative Grade Point Academics (CGPA) of FE significantly. However there was no significant correlation between core competencies and students? CGPA at the FEP UKM. Last result of differences analysis concluded that FE UI perceived the importance of IT, learning how to learn, working with others and overall competencies are higher than students of FEP UKM. This study points out that there are similarities and differences of students? core competencies development between FEP UKM and FE UI. Finally, this study suggests that university should formulate and implement core competencies development into action in order to attain intended outcomes of higher education namely employability, lifelong learning and good citizenship. 
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Universitas Jambi