Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti hubungan antara pengupayaan guru dan efikasi kendiri guru di sekolah rendah Daerah Hulu Selangor. Pendekatan kuantitatif dengan menggunakan kaedah tinjauan telah digunakan dalam kajian ini. Instrumen yang digunakan adalah borang soal selidik. Seramai 152 orang guru telah dipilih melalui kaedah pensampelan rawak mudah yang terdiri daripada guru di 11 buah sekolah rendah di daerah Hulu Selangor. Data yang telah dikumpul, dianalisis menggunakan analisis deskriptif dan inferensi. Analisis deskriptif digunakan untuk menjelaskan tahap pengupayaan guru dan efikasi kendiri guru. Analisis inferensi pula adalah ujian-t dan korelasi Pearson yang digunakan untuk menerangkan perbezaan serta hubungan antara pemboleh ubah kajian. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa tahap pengupayaan guru (Min = 3.71, SP = .380) dan efikasi kendiri guru (Min = 3.78, SP = .408) adalah pada tahap tinggi. Keputusan ujian-t menunjukkan tidak terdapat perbezaan pandangan.....

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Language proficiency tests have adopted various types of items which include multiple-choice questions (MCQ). Designing MCQ needs a longer time to be completed despite being perceived as easy to administer and mark. After the administration and marking process are completed, the test needs to be analysed to determine the index of facility, discrimination power and distractor efficiency. This study aimed to scrutinise those indices and determine if there is an association between the indices with the functionality of the distractors in an intermediate English Proficiency course final examination paper. With the use of QUEST software, the data were computed to get the difficulty and discrimination indices, and distractor efficiency.The finding showed that there is no clear association between facility and discrimination indices with the distractor efficiency. This study found that certain items had acceptable indices despite having poor or non-functional distractor and certain items had .....

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The sound knowledge of Biology is, to date, is a strong prerequisite to study many Biological and Life Sciences, examples of which include Physiology, Forensic Science, Pharmacy, Medicine, Nursing, Biochemistry, to mention a few. These fields, amongst others, rely on a very important aspect of Biology known as Genetics, which is the study of heredity and variation in living organisms. The field of Genetics intersects with many other life sciences. However, students’ attempts of questions on Genetics in internal and external examinations in senior secondary schools in Nigeria have been very poor over the years because they find the concepts of Genetics hard to understand. The need, therefore, arises to look for ways of dealing with this prolonged problem. This study, therefore, attempted to develop an institutional package and also surveyed the extent to which it is adequate for instructional delivery. The Instrumentation design describes the processes of package development based on .....

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Programming is an excellent approach to cultivating computational thinking (CT) skills lacking among current engineering undergraduate students. Although highly useful in teaching programming skills, physical, tangible programming tools available in the market are limited to users aged 12 and below, a gap that impedes the effort to cultivate problem-solving skills and computational thinking among engineering students. As a result, many students who join engineering programmes are without solid computer programming skills. This paper proposes a method to tackle the said gap by applying physical programming education blocks. The programming blocks have various logical functions and input-output capabilities that allow decision-making, looping, and function calling. Users can build their logical thinking skills in the form of cause-and-effect analysis using the play method. Through this approach, students can enhance their programming skills, which improves their computational thinking ab.....

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This study aimed to assess the level of foundational skills of graduate employees in Edo and Delta States using Business Education) graduates as a case study. Three research questions and three hypotheses guided the study. Adescriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population was 1,016 supervisors with a sample size of 309 determined by using the proportionate stratified sampling technique. A structuredquestionnaire was used to collect data. Reliability of the instrument was determined by using Cronbach Alpha reliability method and an overall reliability coefficient of 0.79 was obtained. Data relating to the research questions wereanalyzed using arithmetic mean and standard deviations. The t-test was used to test null hypotheses at a 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed that the supervisors rated application of all the aspects of foundational skills by Business Education graduates to be moderately applied. From the findings, it was concluded that the l.....

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Online formative assessment in higher education Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is gaining attention in recent years based on the increasing use of online learning. This study, aimed at critically reviewing studies on online formative assessment in Higher education STEM between 2011 to 2020. The study adopted a qualitative research design to analyze studies based on specific themes. 1402 articles were systematically searched through Scopus, web of science, and google scholar databases. However, only 12 studies were included in this study after satisfying the inclusion criteria. All data analyses were done using the Endnote X9 reference manager. The findings reveal that, evidence about online tools used, theories used in the learning and assessment process, the domain of learning outcome assessed, assessment of practical skills, and form of assessment used have been implicitly described. However, the online formative assessments have shown great potential of yieldi.....

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This research aimed to examine the concept of emotional approach in da`wah that involves the heart of people in influencing human feeling and conscience. It also analyses the  characteristics and methods of emotional approach in conducting da`wah according to the Holy Quran  as well as the function of the emotional approach in Noah’s da`wah to his people. This was a  qualitative research where the researcher uses analytical approach (al- manhaj al-tahlili) to study the emotional approach and its role in influencing the people. Inductive approach (al-manhaj al-istiqra`i)  is used to analyse its characteristics and methods in the da`wah.of the Prophet Noah. The data of this study were obtained from the classical and contemporary Islamic religious books as well as Quranic tafsir. Finding of this study shows that the emotional approach in da`wah has an effect on classes of people. The study also found that the emotional approach has major function in spreading Islamic da’wah. .....

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The results of the exercise on the Wall-Faced seating arrangement in an architecture thesis design studio reveal the positive effects on the progress, concentration, and design of the students. The seating arrangement encouraged the students for more design products and development through increase the sense of competition. The seating arrangement changed the concentration of the students from the central part of the studio as a location for social interaction toward the drawing board as the learning target of the studio with more concentration on the drawing boards. The seating arrangement changes the concentration from the people in the studio as subject to the drawing board and design development as the object. In the new seating from the level of the collaboration between the students enhanced and the students communicated consistency to enhance the level of the design project in the studio. The research findings reveal that the students present five behavioural patterns in the des.....

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This study aims to assess the effect of industrial work experience in developing employability skills among technical and vocational education undergraduates in Nigerian universities. Data were collected from 119 undergraduates of technical and vocational education (TVE) with a pre-and post-survey instrument. When compared with a paired sample t-test, the result showed that the employability skills possess by TVE undergraduates before and after exposure to industrial work experience significantly differ. When compared with the independent sample t-test, the result showed that the employability skills possess between male and female TVE undergraduates before exposure to industrial work experience does not significantly differ. When also compared with independent sample t-test, the result showed that the employability skills possess between male and female TVE undergraduates after exposure to industrial work experience significantly differ. This study has contributed to the existing lite.....

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This research addressed the prose poem in the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, as this study aims to clarify the concept of the prose poem with understanding the point of view of critics and writers who support and oppose this modern literary genre. Then, it touches upon Mahmoud Darwish's position in this literary genre, which called the researcher to study on these opinions and the literary arbitration and its foundations, in addition working to distinguish them. " Athar al-Farashah " from the poet’s anthology has been used as a text in this study to clarify this issue, while the poet himself, did not classify it under any literary classification. The researcher used the descriptive-analytical method in analyzing and describing the prose poem and critics' opinions with focusing on Darwish's opinion. The applied analysis of texts was presented in an occasional manner through thirty-four examples in the texts, the researcher analyzed it. The findings showed that the Athar al-Farashah has a .....

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