Contribution of Experience as an Instructor in Competency-Based Laboratory Training Towards Improving the Quality of Analytical Chemistry Classes [Kontribusi Pengalaman sebagai Instruktur pada Pelatihan Laboratorium Berbasis Kompetensi terhadap Peningkatan Mutu Perkuliahan Rumpun Kimia Analitik]

Abstract

Kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat (PkM) menjadi suatu kewajiban atau tugas pokok setiap dosen. PkM umumnya dilaksanakan secara rutin oleh seorang dosen sepanjang kariernya di dunia akademik dalam sebuah tim pengabdian ke masyarakat/sekolah. Akan tetapi terdapat bentuk kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat yang tidak selalu ke sekolah. Kegiatan pengabdian dapat dilakukan pada masyarakat perguruan tinggi (akademik) dan perusahaan (praktisi). PkM berupa pelatihan berbasis kompetensi diawali dari permohonan kebutuhan pelatihan, kesediaan narasumber, permohonan izin prodi/fakultas, persiapan materi/penelusuran Standar Kompetensi Kerja Nasional Indonesia, dan pelaksanaan kegiatan.  Bentuk kegiatan PkM berupa pelatihan berbasis kompetensi dapat membangun jejaring/networking antara akademisi dan praktisi. Selain itu juga memberikan peluang bagi dosen untuk melakukan revisi rencana program semester (RPS) dari mata kuliah yang diampu, agar RPS yang disusun benar-benar relevan dengan kebutuhan dunia industri.

Community service activities (PkM) are an obligation or main task for every lecturer. PkM is generally carried out routinely by lecturers throughout their academic career in a community/school service team. However, there are forms of community service activities that do not always go to schools. Service activities can be carried out in the university community (academics) and companies (practitioners). PkM through competency-based training begins with a request for training needs, the availability of resource persons, requests for study program/faculty permission, preparation of materials/search for Indonesian National Work Competency Standards, and implementation of activities. This form of PkM activity through competency-based training can build networks between academics and practitioners, in addition to providing opportunities for lecturers to revise the semester program plan (RPS) of the courses they teach, so that the RPS created is truly relevant to the needs of the industrial world.