The study aimed to propose a framework for developing the Science Curriculum Document (Cambridge) for Grade 4 in basic education in the Sultanate of Oman, in alignment with the skills of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). The study adopted a concurrent embedded design within the mixed-methods research approach. The study population consisted of individuals and documents, comprising 327 individuals and 8 documents. A simple random sampling technique was used to select a sample of 223 individuals and 2 documents. Research Instruments: A questionnaire on 4IR skills: Composed of 40 items, its validity was confirmed through expert judgment with an agreement rate of 86.03%, and its reliability was assessed using Cronbach_s alpha coefficient (0.962). An analysis card: Also consisting of 40 items, its validity was aligned with the expert judgment used for the questionnaire due to identical items, and its reliability was measured using Cooper's formula for stability, achieving an agreement.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk membangunkan dan mengesahkan Instrumen Pentaksiran Domain Kimia (IPDK) selain menilai kebolehpercayaan, kesahan dan tahap kemahiran berfikir aras tinggi (KBAT) murid berdasarkan jantina dan lokasi (bandar dan luar bandar). Melalui pendekatan kuantitatif, kaedah persampelan rawak berstrata digunakan bagi memilih 514 responden Tingkatan 2 dari Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan di Selangor, yang terdiri daripada 252 murid sekolah luar bandar dan 262 murid sekolah bandar, dengan taburan jantina sebanyak 226 lelaki dan 288 perempuan daripada jumlah populasi 70,921. Instrumen IPDK menunjukkan kesahan muka dan kesahan kandungan yang tinggi (CVI = 1) serta ketekalan dalaman yang tinggi (Cronbach Alpha = 0.82. Keputusan kajian utama yang diukur menunjukkan nilai min purata markah yang dicapai oleh murid sampel di Selangor adalah 607.68 (Aras Tinggi), mencerminkan tahap penguasaan KBAT yang tinggi. Analisis Model Pengukuran Rasch menunjukkan bahawa murid lelaki mencapai skor.....

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Kajian ini merupakan kajian secara kuantitatif yang bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti tahap pengetahuan, sikap dan kesediaan belia di daerah Batang Padang terhadap pengundian seawal umur 18 tahun sejajar dengan pelaksanaan Undi18 di negara ini. Tinjauan melalui soal selidik yang melibatkan 462 orang belia yang berumur 18 hingga 20 tahun di daerah Batang Padang. Statistik deskriptif yang digunakan dalam kajian ini ialah peratus dan min manakala bagi statistik inferens ujian yang digunakan ialah korelasi Pearson dan Regresi berganda. Hasil analisis mendapati tahap pengetahuan belia berada pada tahap yang tinggi. Tahap sikap dan kesediaan pula berada pada tahap yang sederhana. Hasil analisis juga mendapati terdapat hubungan yang signifikan di antara tahap pengetahuan dengan tahap sikap belia terhadap pengundian seawal umur 18 tahun. Terdapat hubungan yang signifikan antara tahap pengetahuan dengan tahap kesediaan belia terhadap pengundian seawal umur 18 tahun serta terdapat hubungan yang sig.....

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Preterm birth (PTB) occurs before 37 weeks of pregnancy. Although many factors influence the course of pregnancy, the actual cause of PTB remains unknown, and current medical efforts focus more on reducing the effects rather than preventing them. Therefore, a technology-based approach is needed to predict essential characteristics and develop a prediction model using machine learning algorithms. This study aims to identify the characteristics of PTB and develop a prediction process model using machine learning. Data was collected from Hospital Dr M. Ansari Saleh in Banjarmasin between 2020 and 2022, involving 915 samples. Factors include maternal factors, demographics, nutritional status, and current pregnancy, which are assessed using a machine- learning algorithm. To determine the best accuracy, this study tested the algorithm's performance with data division ratios of 90/10, 80/20, 70/30, and 60/40. Optimum results were obtained with 80/20 division, then optimized using Particle Swa.....

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The philosophy of beauty has been argued and debated for centuries, whether in China or Western countries, particularly examining human association with beauty that developed culturally. This research aims to deepen the understanding on _beauty_ according to Lao Tzu (571 B.C.-470 B.C.), as a representative of Chinese philosophy of Beauty, and Heidegger (1889-1976), as a representative of Western philosophy of Beauty. The purpose of this study is to reveal the similarities and differences between these two influential philosophies of beauty by conducting a comparative analysis on series of painting between Zhu Da (1626-1705), the Chinese ancient prominent painter, and Francis Bacon (1909-1992), the Western distinctive painter. This study conveys a qualitative study using document reviews, visual analysis, thematic analysis, and comparative analysis which consists of three main stages. The first stage reviews the philosophies of beauty according to Lao Tzu and Heidegger to obtain the sig.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk menentukan ciri-ciri keusahawanan, kompetensi, dan pengalaman kerja sebagai faktor kejayaan teknousahawan wanita PKS di Malaysia. Kajian ini berbentuk kuantitatif menggunakan kaedah korelasi yang melibatkan seramai 302 teknousahawan wanita PKS di Malaysia. Kaedah pensampelan strata rawak bernisbah (proportionate stratified random sampling) dan rawak mudah telah digunakan dalam pemilihan sampel. Data dianalisis dengan menggunakan statistik diskriptif dan inferensi menggunakan perisian SPSS. Kajian mendapati bahawa ciri-ciri keusahawanan, kompetensi, pengalaman kerja, latihan dan kejayaan teknousahawan berada pada tahap sangat tinggi. Kajian juga mendapati ciri-ciri keusahawanan (r=0.257, p..

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The assessment landscape in Maldivian schools is currently undergoing change. The new draft Maldivian National Curriculum (Education Development Centre, 2012a) and associated documents, aim to realign assessment, instruction and curriculum in schools to better optimise learning conditions. In terms of assessment a key future focus involves promoting the use of formative assessment in classroom practice. For Maldivian teachers who have traditionally placed emphasis on summative assessment, the transition towards developing a more balanced assessment approach is expected to be challenging. The issues this paper addresses are twofold. The first is to discover how Maldivian primary teachers are currently interpreting formative assessment and putting it into classroom practice. The second is to determine how these practices might act as indicators for identifying future teacher professional development needs. The intent is to provide insight into the complexity of implementing formative ass.....

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An ex-post facto study was conducted to determine which teacher practices can promote critical thinking among secondary school students. A total of 1200 students in 12 schools in a district in Selangor participated in the study. The study employed an extreme group causal comparative design where students who tested high in critical thinking as measured using the Cornell Critical Thinking Test Level X (CCTT-X) were compared with students who obtained low scores in the CCTT-X. Twelve experiences with regard to teacher practices in the classroom differed significantly between the high and the low scorers when analysed with the Mann-Whitney U Test. Implications of the study, particularly on ways to teach better to promote critical thinking are discussed. Key words: Critical thinking, Teacher practices, Malaysia..

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The internet has been an integral part for most EFL teachers nowadays. Those teachers make use of the internet to help them at least search for appropriate materials for their classroom teaching. Some others use the internet to discuss particular courses outside the classroom time. However, the fact that the internet has been of central use, the research on it in relation to literacy (read, write, research and publish) for EFL teacher personal and professional development in developing countries is under explored (Warschauer, Shetzer and Meloni, 2002, cited in Cahyani & Cahyono, 2012). In that regard, this article is to address that critical issue. As an EFL teacher from the developing country myself, my personal and professional experiences and my encounters with colleagues on the internet use inform my subjectivities in writing this article. As the current globalized world requires teachers to have multi-literacy skills, I deliberately frame the internet use within New Literacy Studi.....

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Over hundreds of years of modern education system has been developing and implemented in the schools at European countries and slowly around the world. Not only the education system has changed, but also more and more tools and gadgets had been invented and developed for the sake of better education. In most developing countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Brunei, Interactive whiteboard (IWB) becomes a strange tool for most new and even experienced teachers. The purpose of this study is to review back the related literature reviews of the effectiveness of the use of IWB for teaching and learning which currently have mixed findings on its contributions as a tool in the classrooms. Thereafter, it believes will lead to the understanding of the use of IWB for teaching Chinese characters. Key words: Interactive whiteboard, Educational technologies, Teaching tools..

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