Inquiry Based Learning Module to Empower Cooperation Skills

The education in the 21
st
 century focuses on knowledge and encourages 
students to generate information and encourage developing new skills. The
framework of 21
st
 century learning skill is communication, collaboration, 
critical thinking, creativity and innovation. A cooperation skill in the world
of education is an important thing to be done in learning. Therefore, a
solution is needed to optimize student empower cooperation skills process by
using the teaching material in the form of module. The objective of this
research is to know the effectiveness of inquiry based learning module to
empower cooperation skills. This research was conducted in one of high
school in Surakarta, Indonesia. The research method is quasi experiment,
used pretest and posttest design by using two randomly selected classes those
were experimental class used an inquiry based learning module and control
one used a modules made by biology teachers in Surakarta. The results
showed that there were significant differences of learning outcomes between
the control and the experimental classes based on the independent samples 
t-test test results, also seen with the n-gain scores that obtained
 at 0.78 (middle) in the control class and 0.87 (high) in the experimental
class. As the study concluded, using inquiry based learning module in the
learning process in effective to empower cooperation skills.