Advancing Collaborative Competence: Instrumentation Development and Integration Strategies for Effective Learning

Collaboration skills are one of the 21st-century skills that are important to develop for stu-dents because
they are life tools needed when continuing their studies in school, engaging in society, and in the world of
work. As a result, teachers must facilitate students' collaboration skills and measure them. Valid, reliable,
and effective instruments are needed to measure students' collaboration skills. This study aims to develop an
instrument to measure students' collaboration skills. This research uses a 4-D development model of defining,
designing, developing, and Disseminating. At the define stage, it was found that many teachers still
needed instruments to measure collaboration skills and determine indicators of collaboration skills. The
design results obtained are collaboration instruments in learning. These consist of 9 indicators: contribution,
time management, problem-solving, working with others, investi-gative techniques, quality of work, focus
on tasks, readiness, and monitoring group effecti-veness. Next, scoring is determined. The instrument was
validated by experts and tested in 2 trials. The first trial was conducted at SMAM 7 and SMAM 3 Surabaya
in class XI. Vali-dity results stated that the instrument was very valid. The results of trials using the IBSC
learning model show that the instrument is reliable and considerably effective in measuring collaboration
skills. The novelty of this study resulted in a collaborative instrument worthy of use both theoretically and
empirically.
Keywords: collaborative competence, empowering education, instrumentation development, integration
strategies