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Type :thesis
Subject :QC Physics
Main Author :Muhamad Zulhelmi Othman
Title :The development and evaluation of a lab report scoring checklist to assess the practical skills indirectly in an undergraduate optics course
Place of Production :Tanjong Malim
Publisher :Fakulti Sains dan Matematik
Year of Publication :2023
Corporate Name :Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris
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Abstract : Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris
This study was carried out to develop and evaluate the practicality of a lab report scoring checklist to assess practical skills indirectly in the undergraduate optics course (UOC). The study employed quantitative approach with the support of qualitative data. A scoring checklist was developed for the obtained context from the needs analysis using the ADDIE instructional design model. The checklist was validated by six experts from the physics and physics education fields. The face validity was analysed using descriptive statistics, while the content validity was analysed using the Content Validation Index (CVI). The pilot test was conducted in three cyclic processes to obtain the reliability of the developed checklist. It involved three raters from different educational levels who evaluated 35 UOC lab reports. The first stage involves the analysis of inter-rater agreement using Fleiss’ kappa coefficient. Next, the Cohen’s kappa analysis was employed to determine the reliability of inter-rater agreement for each cycle. After that, the practicality of checklist was evaluated by two lecturers while marking 32 UOC lab reports. The instrument practicality was analysed using descriptive statistics. Findings indicated that the developed scoring checklist had satisfactory face validity, content validity (SCVI/Ave = 0.98, SCVI/UA = 0.87), interrater agreement, and test-retest reliability. The checklist also obtained satisfactory practicality level among course lecturers. As a conclusion, a lab report scoring checklist with satisfactory validity, reliability and practicality level to assess indirect practical skills in UOC has been successfully developed in this study. This study implies that the developed checklist could overcome the practical skill assessment loads faced by the UOC lecturers, guides the students in writing a professional lab report and proves that the indirect assessment can be utilised to assess practical skills in the physics laboratory.

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