Scholarly Technical Education Publication Series (STEPS) Vol. 5, 2023

Lecturers’ Perceptions and Expectations Towards Learning Skills and Innovations of 4C’s of 21st Century Skills

Authors:

    Amutha A/P Gopal Villoo @ Venugopal
    Temerloh Community College, Malaysia

Abstract

Educational institutions have an equally challenging task anticipating which classes and skills they should teach to help their students land well-paying jobs when they graduate. In conjunction with that, investigating teachers’ perceptions of the learning environment gives insight in the extent to which the educational design has been successfully implemented and continue to succeed throughout their careers. However, a few responses from the head department depicts that the perception and expectation of learning skills and innovation is moderate level. Besides that, perception and expectation are two different things, not merely an easy thing to achieve in the 21st century era which focuses on learning skills and innovation. Thus, the research was conducted to identify the knowledge, motivation, and organizational level of the Four C’s (4C’s) Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, and to investigate the most dominant factors contributing to perception and expectation of learning skills and innovation of 4C’s. Descriptive analysis with quantitative approach was used to collect data with sample 90 lecturers among Temerloh Community College, Paya Besar Community College and Bentong Community College, whereby data was analysed using SPSS version 27. The findings indicate that knowledge (mean =3.3972) and organizational level (mean= 3.4306) were at moderate level. Therefore, it shows that the lectures need to improvise their knowledge and the awareness of the development of 4C’s. In addition, the findings show the dominant factor of 4C’s of perception is Collaboration (mean=3.7844 ) and expectation (mean= 4.5200) showed the respondents easy to adapt and execute for collaboration merely same compare to Other 4C’s of Perception shows Critical Thinking (mean= 3.3711), Creative Thinking (mean=3.4667) and Communication (mean= 3.4933) were at moderate level. The study complies exploring the perspective of teachers. Therefore, steps should be taken drastically to successfully implement 4Cs via execute training and re-design of the curricula by adding rubric assessment of 4C’s as part of the evaluation in teaching and learning towards 21st century skills.