Performance of Psychomotor Skill in Structural and Material Laboratory: A Comparison of Two Teaching Approach

Abstract

Psychomotor skills are important for engineering students to have to become a professional engineer or technician. Psychomotor skills, often known as manual or physical abilities, are typically developed in a laboratory. This study's primary objective was to evaluate the performance comparison of the students’ psychomotor skills during open-distance and face-to-face learning for the structural and material laboratory. Instead of simply following the pre-established rules from a laboratory manual as usual during face-to-face class, students are given the freedom to design the simulation experiments during open distance learning (ODL). The psychomotor skills are evaluated based on the practical test and project-based. According to the findings of this study, the student's performance on practical tests and projects achieved the comparable score for semester F2F and ODL. Even though there is a little difference in percentage of attainment for the project between those two teaching approaches, it is still satisfactory as both approaches are able to pass the requirement grade.