Pengembangan soft skills mahasiswa program kelas internasional melalui pembelajaran berbasis konteks untuk meningkatkan kualitas proses dan hasil belajar mekanika

Development of soft skills is not new in the field of education,as a foundation for the development has been very clear,the law no. 20 year 2003 on national education system,chapter i,article 1,paragraph 1. necessity development of soft skills in the international class courses related to problems that arise in pilot programs that have an international class held at department of physics,state education uny. of the stub class can be observed on the lecture often seen doubts of students to be actively involved in the lecture. in addition to constraints that arise due to the limitations of the student in mastering english conversation,so they take more time to listen to the contents of the lecture,but also that stood out was the effect of the lack of soft skills development mahasiswa.rancangan experiments used in this study is the non-random pre - test post -test control group. in this design,making rambang subyektidak done. this design was chosen because during eksperimentidak allows to modify existing classes. pre- tests are used untukmenyetarakan prior knowledge while the second group used post- test learning outcomes and take into observation sheet to determine the development of soft skillsselama and after the learning process. learning activities undertaken by the context -based,causing active students to formulate questions,seek resources and collect information from sources,process the information they have,reconstructing data/fact/value,presenting the results of the reconstruction/development process value. this growing soft skills in students through a variety of self- learning activities that occur in the classroom learning,campus environment,and tasks outside the campus. the development of soft skills significantly influence the improvement of student learning outcomes both process and product are taken through the test data. © 2014 prodi pendidikan ipa fmipa unnes semarang.