Kajian ini bertujuan untuk membangunkan Modul SMART-KQ bagi murid di Tadika Islam Malaysia. SMART-KQ merupakan modul kosa kata bahasa Arab yang berasaskan warna dan gambar. Kajian ini menggunakan reka bentuk dan pembangunan (DDR) yang terdiri daripada tiga fasa. Fasa pertama melibatkan analisis keperluan dengan 214 responden dari Tadika Islam di lima zon Malaysia menggunakan persampelan kluster. Dapatan soal selidik dianalisis menggunakan SPSS versi 21.0 untuk melihat peratusan, min, dan sisihan piawai. Protokol temubual turut digunakan melibatkan lima pakar, dan analisis dibuat menggunakan ATLAS.ti22. Fasa kedua melibatkan reka bentuk dan pembangunan modul menggunakan kaedah Fuzzy Delphi dengan 12 orang pakar untuk mengesahkan konstruk dan item. Reka bentuk modul mengadaptasi Model Gagne, Model TABA, dan Model Sidek, menghasilkan tujuh konstruk utama. Fasa ketiga menguji kebolehgunaan modul melalui kaedah teknik nominal (NGT) dengan 23 pakar terpilih. Dapatan fasa pertama menunjukkan .....

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Nyanyian tradisional Melayu adalah seni warisan budaya yang kaya dengan nilai sejarah dan identiti masyarakat Melayu. Namun, ia semakin kurang diminati terutama dalam kalangan generasi muda yang lebih tertarik kepada muzik moden dan popular. Tanpa inisiatif untuk memperbaharui bentuk persembahan, nyanyian tradisional ini berisiko ketinggalan zaman dan mungkin dilupakan. Kajian ini meneliti konsep Harmontradiloka sebagai pendekatan baharu dalam persembahan nyanyian tradisional Melayu. Objektif kajian adalah untuk memperkenalkan ensembel vokal dengan harmoni moden dalam nyanyian tradisional Melayu, mengumpul koleksi lagu tradisional dari pelbagai genre, serta menyampaikan persembahan dalam bentuk konsert muzikal yang disertai elemen koreografi dan teaterikal. Kajian menggunakan kaedah berasaskan amali untuk penghasilan karya serta kaedah kualitatif, termasuk temu bual tidak berstruktur, kajian perpustakaan melalui bahan bacaan, kajian terdahulu, artikel, jurnal, pengalaman peribadi, peme.....

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The aim of this study is to examine the effects of using vocabulary learning materials in developing vocabulary skills and enhancing speaking skills. The study used the mixed-methods research approach. The quantitative data were obtained using English vocabulary tests using pre-test and post-test, speaking skills rubric, and the questionnaire. The qualitative data were obtained using semi-structured interviews. The quantitative data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistical analyses. For the descriptive analysis, means, percentages, and standard deviations were used to analyse the data, while for the inferential analysis t-tests and ANOVA were used. The qualitative data were analysed thematically. Findings for quantitative analysis showed that the significant difference between pre-test and post-test was at 0.01 level. In addition, the relationship between vocabulary development and communication skills was at 0.02 level of significance. As for the qualitative analysi.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan membangunkan modul pembelajaran berasaskan projek (M-BMC) dan mengkaji kesannya terhadap pencapaian topik Kanvas Model Perniagaan. Kajian ini terdiri daripada dua fasa iaitu fasa pembangunan modul dan fasa menilai kesan modul. Reka bentuk kajian pembangunan digunakan dalam fasa pertama manakala reka bentuk kuasi eksperimen digunakan dalam fasa kedua. Modul Pembelajaran Berasaskan Projek (M-BMC) dibangunkan dengan model Dick dan Reiser (1996) mengintegrasikan Model Pembangunan Modul Sidek serta Teori Konstruktivisme dan Teori Pembelajaran Bermakna. Kesahan modul dinilai oleh sembilan pakar menggunakan dua instrumen iaitu soal selidik kesahan modul dan soal selidik kesahan aktiviti modul dan Nilai kebolehpercayaan modul (Cronbach_s Alpha = 0.710 _ 0.898) diperoleh melalui kajian rintis. Pada fasa kedua melibatkan 91 orang pelajar Kolej Vokasional Pertanian yang diagih kepada kumpulan kawalan (n = 35) dan rawatan (n = 56). Instrumen yang digunakan ujian pencapaian top.....

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The focus of this article is the Critical Reflection Profile (CRP) and Guidelines which have recently been developed at Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Malaysia (UPSI). The revised Malaysian national curriculum has a new focus on critical and creative thinking. There is an opportunity to introduce critical reflection - and teacher action research - into the day-to-day practice of teachers and school leaders in Malaysia. This coincides with changes in legislation that have somewhat destabilized the school system, for example ending the teaching of mathematics and science through the medium of English. At this time of rapid change, UPSI, as one of the major providers of teacher education in Malaysia, has an important role to play in improving the quality of teacher education with consequent improvements in the quality of teaching and learning in schools. Over the last decade, UPSI has built up a vibrant tradition of action research in partnership with local schools in the State of Pe.....

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Research on teacher quality is derived from a Western model of education that is obsessed with student achievement. Often comparisons with student achievement in East Asian societies leave Western policymakers asking: _why aren_t our students as good as theirs?_ The answer is often that improvements in teacher quality are the key variable in enhancing student achievement and much policy effort is spent on identifying the links between the two variables. Qualifications, licensing arrangements, teacher education, salary incentives, instructional style and teacher efficacy have all been nominated as likely ingredients in this elusive construct of _teacher quality_. Keywords: policy; teachers; quality; culture..

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Teacher learning and continuous teacher professional development have become important topics in educational research in view of the ongoing pressure for change in education. It is all the more important because educational reforms require both changes in teachers_ ways of thinking about student learning and changes in their teaching practices. (Meirink, J.A., Imants, J., Meijer P.C. & Verloop, N., 2010)...

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Singapore`s limited resources and need for extensive international engagement have privileged human capital development and thus made education a high policy priority to ensure its responsiveness and relevance. In three decades Singapore unified a fragmented teaching force, set high benchmarks for recruitment, preparation, deployment, and career development. Singapore`s present well-deserved reputation for educational quality, as represented in various international assessments of student achievement, can fairly be attributed to the quality of its teachers. Recognising the opportunities and challenges presented by globalisation, Singapore is seeking to transform its education system from an efficient, industrial era model into one more appropriate for the knowledge-economy. Major reforms are seeking to create more responsiveness to a variety of student needs, abilities and aspirations. There is now much more choice and multiple pathways, curriculum has been broadened, and assessment re.....

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In order to address the crisis facing teacher education, the paper articulates a need to think differently about knowledge construction, curriculum design and implementation and the implications for teacher preparation. Further the focus on innovative pedagogies and learning engagement more closely aligned to new age learners, is argued as central to the reconstruction of teacher education programs away from a traditional focus on pre-determined content and regulated practices. This paper calls on the profession of teacher educators to differentiate on how we think about ourselves as knowledge workers for new times; to decide whether the current learning spaces of the academy are appropriate and whether our current role and positioning as academic lecturers is in need of reinvention. As a matter of urgency teacher educators must rethink the ways in which they design curriculum programs for teacher preparation before they are replaced by larger forces. In short teacher educators are cal.....

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Teacher competence is recognised as an important requisite to improve students_ academic performance and their experiences of schooling. The current strategy in Malaysia to improve this competency and outcomes of education culminated in the articulation of the Standard Guru Malaysia or the Malaysian Teacher Standards (MTS). Introduced in December 2009, the MTS is to establish high teaching standards and sets out to recognise accomplished teaching among the teaching profession. Although proponents of the standards have welcomed its introduction, this article argues that the MTS poses significant challenges for teacher educators as they set out to train new teachers to begin teaching in ways that are congruent to the standards. The article claims that the new MTS represent the standards towards which teacher educators must now aim for. In fact, this is an intentional element embedded in the MTS. The Malaysian government hopes that by initiating standards by which teachers are to be appra.....

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