Employability Skills of Tourism Vocational High School Student through Collaborative Inquiry Learning Model

The research aims to know the improvement of employability skills of Tourism Vocational High School students through collaborative inquiry learning model implementation. The employable skills of vocational high school students are observed from problem solving skill aspect, collaborative skill and communicative skill that must be mastered by vocational high school students to be skilled workers. Syntax in collaborative inquiry learning model consists of framing the problems, collecting the evidence, analyzing evidence, documenting, sharing and celebrating. The research used quasi experimental design "Single - Group Interrupted Time - Series Design". The technic uses : 1) Subjective test to measure students' problem solving skill; 2) Observation sheet to observe the syntax implementation of collaborative inquiry learning model and to measure students' collaborative and communicative skills; 3) Questionnaire to know students' perceptions of collaborative inquiry learning model implementation towards student's employability skills improvement. Population used in this research were Teacher and Student of Tourism Vocational High School. Students of Tourism Vocational High School as many as 43 people and teachers as an observer for 5 people in Yapari Aktripa Vocational High School Bandung as a sample. The result shows that through collaborative inquiry learning model, students' employability skills such as problem solving skill, collaborative skill, and communicative skills are improved in every treatments, and students' perception of collaborative inquiry learning model gets positive responses.