Study of strengthening 21st-century skills in prospective science teacher based on gender

Abstract

21^st-century skills are important for teachers. Pre-service teachers have to have the competence needed in the 21^st Century to teach these 21^st-century skills to their students in the future. This purposes of the study are the strengthening of the 21^st Century Skills of pre-service teachers of science in three campuses, namely Sultan Syarif Kasim State Islamic University, Sultan Idris Malaysia University of Education, and Ar Raniry State Islamic University in Banda Aceh and to determine the correlation of 21^st-century skills-based on gender. This study employed quantitative design using a survey research method. The instrument used for this study was the questionnaire of 21^st century skills. The questionnaire for the 21^st century skills are 30 items to represent the five constructs (Digital Age Literacy, Inventive Thinking, Effective Communication, High Productivity and Values and Spirituality) with the reliability index of the instrument was 0.84. This study was conducted on 250 pre-service teachers consisting of 46 male gender and 204 female gender from three campuses. The results showed that teachers of science had good reinforcement of The 21^st Century Skills. While based on data analysis, the correlation between male and female gender is weak but has the same relationship to strengthening the 21^st Century skills.