Enhancement of Students' Soft Skills through a Module of Game-Based Problem Solving Activities in Moral Education

Abstract

Soft skills comprised of seven key components namely communication, thinking and problem solving, teamwork, ongoing learning and information management, entrepreneurial, moral and professional ethics; and leadership should be embraced by all students as they are essential to the process of student development. This study aimed to examine the level of students' soft skills based on the seven components in a gamebased problem solving activities such as Fun Card, Moral Dice, Playmat, One-2-Learn, NipMo 36, Fun Learning and EEL Wheel. This study consisted of 5 phases based on the ADDIE Model, namely, analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation which involved a survey through questionnaire to 80 co-curriculum students from the Universiti Utara Malaysia. The findings showed that all seven soft skills in the games have been developed. Overall the highest soft skill was teamwork skill while the lowest soft skill was entrepreneurial skills. It is hoped that this game-based problem solving module for Moral education will contribute to new knowledge as well as improve the quality of learning and teaching Moral education as well as build soft skills through game-based problem-solving methods that enable students to be highquality and competent individuals.