Abstract—Invention is a process of developing creative minds,
innovative and inventive in preparing the workforce informed,
and competent in facing the challenges of rapid technological
development today. Knowledge and individual competency are
needed to produce a new design of a product. Knowledge and
skills are the components related to invention process that could
be identified easily. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the
level of student’s knowledge and preferences in invention
process, student’s skills in selecting the process knowledge, and
to identify the relationship between the student’s knowledge and
the preferences process that they chose. 528 students from
vocational colleges were involved in this study. The set of
questionnaires based on Renwick model and iceberg competency
model was used to measure the variables needed. The results
showed the level of student’s knowledge in invention process
was high and the students also preferred the idea of development
when they chose the invention process. This study also
concluded that there was a significant relationship between
knowledge and student’s preferences in invention process. In
conclusion, the application of skills and knowledge in invention
process will be applied in students’ competency and it is capable
of developing new ideas to create innovative and creative
products.
Index Terms—Invention, knowledge, skills, and vocational
colleges.
The authors are with the Faculty of Technical and Vocational Education,
Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 86400 Parit Raja, BatuPahat, Johor,
Malaysia (e-mail: mimi@uthm.edu.my, norlisa@uthm.edu.my,
kahirol@uthm.edu.my, lcsern@uthm.edu.my).
Cite: Mimi Mohaffyza Mohamad, Nor Lisa Sulaiman, Kahirol Mohd Salleh, and Lai Chee Sern, "Innovative Invention Skills and Individual Competency Model for Vocational Education," International Journal of Information and Education Technology vol. 7, no. 7, pp. 514-517, 2017.