Nurturing personal skills development: Model of monitoring and assessment of student centred learning

Student centered learning has long time been introduced in the local polytechnics to enhance student´s learning in technical skills. Learning is believed to be much more effective when student undergoing group projects including lab works, computer assisted learning, group discussion, practical works and etc. But somehow there is some space for current practice to have some improvement in terms of its implementation strategy. We found that most of the assessments took place only at the end of the project completion. The criteria much focus on content knowledge rather than to view the evaluation process from wider perspective. This wider perspective importantly refers on nurturing student personal skills development. As a result, the student´s ability to apply knowledge in the workplace was claimed poor by most of the employers. Therefore, this study aims to look into the possible ways of adaptation of the existing system by developing the best practice guideline model of monitoring and assessment specifically in technical skills program in electrical engineering course. The final product is a rubric that will nurture student performance in personal skills during the learning process.