In the past two decades, nations worldwide have been involved in active education reform efforts. In East Asia, many of these efforts are aimed at increasing economic competitiveness by enhancing the quality of education. In doing so, education systems often look to comparative and international experience for guidance and inspiration. Since Vision 2020 was launched in Malaysia in the 1990s, education reform has been a key component in efforts to ensure that the nation stays competitive, and achieves the target of becoming a regional hub for high quality education and economic creativity by the year 2020. In 2006, the Malaysian government prepared an education 'blueprint' known as the Education Development Master Plan (EDMP) 2006-2010. One of the core strategies in the EDMP is to accelerate the improvement of educational institutions by forming clusters of excellence among schools so that they become models and benchmarks for others to learn from. Schools in these clusters of excellenc.....

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This thesis furnishes a clear idea on the current scenario of word-formation in Tamil, particularly in the Malaysian context. A total of 496 words have been collected as data for this study from the nationwide published Malaysian Tamil newspaper; 'Malaysia Nanban'. This study by and large answered technical questions: word-formation processes, genres and classes of words and identifying linguistic and grammatical weakness and conflicts. Field study has been conducted to answer social questions such as: attitudes of language users, their expectation and suggestions for better word-formation in Tamil. It was found that the language users were not very satisfied with the current progress of word-formation in Tamil. The result obtained from the questionnaire demonstrates that the language users are supportive of language development, particularly in word-formation. The analysis of this study has been divided into three sections based on the source of data viz. newspaper, questionnaire and .....

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Kajian ini dijalankan untuk mengenal pasti kefahaman dan kesilapan pelajar Tingkatan Empat dalam menyelesaikan masalah kebarangkalian. Kajian ini berfokuskan kepada tiga persoalan kajian. Kajian ini melibatkan seramai 50 orang responden dari sebuah sekolah menengah di sekitar daerah Bera, Pahang dengan mengedarkan instrumen kajian iaitu Probability Assessment Test. Enam orang pelajar yang dipilih secara bertujuan daripada sampel yang telah menjawab instrumen kajian ditemu bual untuk meneroka kefahaman dan kesilapan mereka tentang kebarangkalian. Hasil kajian mendapati tahap pemahaman pelajar dalam tajuk kebarangkalian masih pada tahap yang lemah dan perlu diperbaiki. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan jenis kesilapan pelajar yang paling kerap ditemui dalam pembelajaran kebarangkalian adalah salah konsep dan jenis kefahaman, iaitu kefahaman tentang istilah dan simbol yang digunakan dalam pembelajaran kebarangkalian. Kesilapan jenis kecuaian juga berlaku di mana pelajar memandang remeh ke atas s.....

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The objective of this study is to examine the effects of semantic mapping on the reading comprehension of scientific texts among Matriculation college students. This study sought to determine if there are any benefits in instructing Matriculation students to use semantic mapping as means of improving their comprehension of information in scientific texts. The sample consisted of 60 Matriculation students in two different Biology Science classes from Perak Matriculation College (KMPk). One class was assigned as the experimental group, while the other class as the control group. Both experimental and control groups were given the pretest and posttest. The experimental group received the semantic mapping training while the control group did not receive any special training except for normal learning sessions. The 60 students chosen for this study were those considered to be above average in English proficiency as determined by the results of the Malaysian University English Test (MUET) 20.....

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The uses of learning materials and learning styles are among the domineering factors in shaping the students’ best achievements in examinations. This research was carried out with the purpose to find out the types of learning materials and learning styles used among the non - Malay students. 60 non-Malay form four students, taken from two schools in the Lipis District, Pahang were selected to be the samples. The information was gathered through questionnaires and interviews. A few methods have been selected to analyze the data. The methods used are frequency statistics, percentage, correlation, and one way ANOVA. The findings of this research shows that, there is a significant relation between the frequent uses of Bahasa Melayu reading materials, academic and non-academic magazines and also the frequent reading of additional reading materials related to Bahasa Melayu subject, towards the increasing of achievement for Bahasa Melayu subject in their previous form four examination. The .....

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This research uses the survey technique with regards to form 5 students’ mastery, attitude and views on Malay idiomatic phrases in two schools in the distict of Raub, Pahang. 60 students of different gender, race and location (address) were used on research samples. Two instruments were used to measure students mastery of Malay idiomatic expression i.e questionaires and 24 questions in the form of questions from idioms, sayings, similes and proverbs. The data obtained from the study will be processed using ‘Statistical Packages for the Social Sciences’ version 10.0 an analysis software. Based on the analysis of the form 5 bahasa Melayu text book, there are 39 idiomatic expressions. The results of the research too shows that, many students like learning idiomatic expressions but many do not tend to use them in conversations. According to the variant and mastery of learning expressions, it is found that there was no stark significance in terms of gender in the sample students. Howe.....

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The purpose of this study was to examine the Form 5 students' experiences using their cognitive abilities in learning Biology accordance with the Paper 1 (Objective), Paper 2 (Structured & Essay), and Paper 3 (Written Practical). This study employed Hermeneutics pedagogic method, i. e the method that deals with text interpretation to understand the text. The distribution ofresearch questionnaires was employed randomly to 57 of Form 5 science stream students in 2 different schools in Taiping. The Hermeneutics pedagogic method was used in order to interpret the students' written texts on the students' cognitive abilities of learning Biology and categorized the cognitive abilities into a few main learning ways for the 3 papers. The findings of the study indicated that the main learning ways for acquire the knowledge ofBiologyfor Paper 1 (Objective), Paper 2 (Structured & Essay), and Paper 3 (Written Practical) were answering techniques, i. e. provide answer points based on marks allocated.....

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The SPM 2003 report and the national analysis on the MUET writing component indicated that pre university students who sat for the English paper did not fare well in Paper Four, the extended writing section. This illustrated that the majority of the candidates had yet to master the writing skills in English. Based on the reports above, the purpose of this study was to overcome the problem before hand by implementing a series of writing activities that incorporates selected metacognitive strategies that covered the areas of planning, monitoring, adapting and evaluating learning and learning outcomes. This study adopted the two-group, pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design, whereby a total of seventy pre-university students from a rural based secondary school in Sungkai, Perak were chosen as samples. As this study looked at the MUET Paper Four achievements, the research instrument used in this study was the October 2003 MUET Paper Four writing component. This question was chosen as i.....

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The problem of low achievement in English among students is an issue in the educational issue in the UPSR, PMR and SPM examinations. If more attention is not given to this problem, it could affect the attainment of the National Philosophy of Education and Vision 2020. Therefore great effort should be made to overcome this problem. The main purpose of this study was to find out whether the implementation of collaborative writing in the classroom would enhance students’ writing skill. This study was carried out on 60 form three students of Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Gedangsa, Kuala Kubu Bharu, Selangor Darul Ehsan. The theories underlying this study were Vygtosky’s Social-Cognitive theory, Piaget’s theory on Cognitive Conflict and Swain’s Output hypothesis. The method used was quasi-experimental. The findings of this study indicated that the subjects in the experimental group who wrote collaboratively improved in their mean scores for post-test by 7.47 as compared to the control.....

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Objektif kajian ini adalah untuk mengenal pasti faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi kejayaan dan kegagalan usahawan wanita bagi dua buah daerah di Negeri Kelantan. Kajian ini juga meneliti masalah yang dihadapi oleh usahawan wanita semasa mengendalikan perniagaan mereka. Reka bentuk kajian ialah kajian kuantitatif di mana maklumat dikumpulkan dengan menggunakan soal selidik. Sampel adalah terdiri daripada 60 orang wan ita yang terlibat dalam aktiviti keusahawanan di Kota Bharu dan Tanah Merah. Data yang diperolehi telah dianalisis dengan menggunakan program Statistical Packages For Social Sciences (SPSS) 17.0 untuk mendapatkan maklumat kekerapan, peratusan dan min. Dalam kajian ini, Analisis Faktor digunakan untuk mendapatkan data yang lebih terperinci mengenai faktor kejayaan dan kegagalan usahawan wanita. Kajian menunjukkan terdapat lima faktor yang mempengaruhi kejayaan dan kegagalan usahawan wanita iaitu faktor sikap, strategik perniagaan, pengurusan perniagaan, kemahiran atau pengetah.....

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