Kajian ini bertujuan membangunkan permainan yang dinamai PhyKER Games bagi tajuk Litar Elektrik untuk pelajar sekolah menengah dan menguji kesan penggunaannya dalam pembelajaran ke atas pencapaian dan motivasi pelajar. Kajian ini menggunakan reka bentuk Kajian Perekaan dan Pembangunan (DDR) termasuk kuasi eksperimen bagi menentukan kesan penggunaan permainan tersebut. Fasa pertama kajian iaitu analisis keperluan melibatkan keseluruhan populasi 504 pelajar di sekolah Wilayah Persekutuan Putrajaya. Seramai 384 pelajar Tingkatan 5 memberi respon yang mana 66.9% pelajar menyatakan tajuk Elektrik adalah tajuk yang paling sukar manakala kaedah pembelajaran berasaskan permainan menjadi pilihan 62.2% pelajar. Fasa kedua kajian iaitu reka bentuk dan pembangunan PhyKER Games melibatkan seramai tiga orang pakar bagi mendapatkan kesahan kandungan. Dapatan menunjukkan PhyKER Games mempunyai kesahan kandungan yang memuaskan dengan nilai Indeks Kesahan Kandungan 0.95. Bagi menguji keboleh.....

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This article is about the emergence of English educated figures in Kinta district and contributions in national politics. The development of English education in Kinta district, Perak from 1874 to 1957 became a major element in the emergence of English educated figures. The earnings of this article are to look at the political developments in Kinta region and the country. This article is developed as a result of the reference of primary and secondary sources of documents from the National Archives of Malaysia and Zaba Library, University of Malaya. All these documents are analyzed and evaluated and interpreted hermeneutically to avoid any elements of bias. The results found that the explosion and opening of tin mining areas in Kinta district opened opportunities for Christian missionaries and the British government to advance English education for the purpose of benefiting both parties. Overall, this article points out that the impact of English education in Kinta district led to the e.....

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The aim of this research is to achieve three prime objectives that are:- identifying the stage of entrepreneurship practice critical success factors among the entrepreneurs running some business at the mosques in Petaling District of Selangor, establishing the link between entrepreneurship practice critical success factors with their business performance at the mosques in Petaling District of Selangor and studying the entrepreneurship practice critical success factors influencing their business performance at the mosques in Petaling District of Selangor. Thus, quantitative research design has been opted to justify the research scope and 18 hypotheses. The quantitative method through observation techniques and survey were distributed to 70 selected samples out of 86 available business units. Descriptive analyses indicates the average value and standard gap that rank the top, initiates teamwork factors that obtain the average value 4.2667. The correlation finding, on the other hand, illu.....

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In disaster preparedness programmes, puppet plays are an important therapeutic medium for children. Accordingly, this qualitative study was aimed to investigate the importance of puppet plays for children who were enrolled in the said programme. In-depth interviews were conducted on six respondents, two of whom were males included a school head, and a worker from the rehabilitation centre respectively. Meanwhile, the four remaining females included a teacher, two caretakers, and a disaster survivor among the disaster community. Following thematic analysis, it was found that the inclusion of puppet plays in a disaster preparedness programme not only educated nursery, kindergarten, and primary school children on disaster preparedness; they helped reduce the emotional impact caused by such untoward incidents as well. Hence, puppet plays can be useful in psychotherapy for children in such programmes. Keywords: Children, Puppet Play, Disaster Preparedness..

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The aim of this study was to investigate the impact between Internal Control Components (ICC) and the Financial Performance (FP) of the Iraqi banking sector. The selected components were control environment, control activity, risk assessment, information & communication, and monitoring. The theoretical framework in this study was based on the Agency theory. A quantitative approach using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was utilised as the main study design. The data was collected from a group of respondents comprising CFO, CEO, Accountants, Internal Auditors, and Audit Committee selected through non-random purposive sampling. The actual survey questionnaire was distributed to 365 respondents, and the data were analysed using SEM to determine the impact between Internal Control Components and Financial Performance. The study results indicated that the Internal Control Components have a significant impact on Financial Performance. The positive significant relation were control activit.....

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As Malaysia’s national curriculum appeared to promote creative subjects instead of enhanced by itself, this study aimed to study the effect of emotions and genders toward creativity among undergraduate student in Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI). This study was conducted through experimental method. This between-subject experimental study was conducted by watching a short video and complete a set of questionnaire to the participants. A total of 32 participants with equal gender were participated in the experiment through convenience sampling. Instruments used were the PANAS Questionnaire and Alternative Uses Task (AUT). Two types of videos to give intended effect of positive and negative emotions were used. Manipulation check was conducted before the actual study to test the instruments. Research hypotheses were tested by the independent T-test analyses. Results showed that there was no significant difference between both emotions and genders respectively toward creativity. .....

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Most children with learning disabilities faced problem in social communication skill and its really affects their life and learning process in school. To enhance social communication skill, an effective intervention should be applied to them. This case study was conducted to confirm that AAC (augmentative and alternative communication) is an effective way in enhancing social communication skill among children with learning disabilities. The objective of this study were to identify the impact of using AAC in verbal and nonverbal communication and skill in social interaction. Respondents consisted of 30 children with learning disabilities, aged eight to twelve years, from three primary school in Perak. Observation were done in teaching and learning process in the classroom which took about 40 minutes for each session. Data collection were conducting through observations. Research finding proven that AAC were strongly assisted children with learning disabilities to communicate and sociall.....

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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of analogy and explicit instructions on 50-m sprint performance and their running kinematics. Forty-five male Physical Education undergraduates participated in this study and were randomly divided into three groups, (i.e. analogy, explicit and control). Their sprint performances were assessed using wireless timing gate while the kinematic data was assessed by Kinovea software. The analogy group received three analogies which were “run tall”, “chin to pocket” and “claw the track” throughout the intervention sessions whereas the explicit group received “keep the body posture in an upright position and aligned, head and butt not tilting outward”, “arms should maintain a 90-degree angle at the elbow throughout the upswing as well as backswing” and “the foot landing should always be on the balls of the feet”. The control group did not receive any instruction throughout the intervention period. All participants were.....

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The study examines the effectiveness of the Form Four STEM-Based Physics Interactive Laboratory (i-Lab) to enhance form four students’ achievements in Physics. It describes the design process by employing the Isman Instructional Design Model. A quantitative study was carried out using an experimental method. The instruments used were pretest and posttest for form four students’ achievements in Physics. The sample of this study consists of three groups: a Traditional Physics Laboratory (T-Lab); Form Four STEM-Based Physics Interactive Laboratory with explanation feedback (i-LabP); and Form Four STEM-Based Physics Interactive Laboratory with knowledge of results (i-LabK). In this study, T-Lab is control groups while i-LabP and i-LabK are treatment group. Each group had 20 participants. Statistical analysis in the form of One Way Anova was used to compare the achievements of students in each group (T-Lab, i-LabP & i-LabK). The findings show that i-LabP had highest score mean at 64.70,.....

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Nowadays, depression is one of famous mental disorder among university students. This proven by National Institute of Mental Health (2012) many people experience the first symptom of depression during their college years or in other word, young adult years, but many depressed college students are not seeking the help they need. In 2011, about 30 percent of college students were reported feeling so depressed that it was difficult for them to sometimes function (American College Health Association (ACHA), 2012).This research aims to study the effectiveness of cognitive restructuring techniques university students that experienced depression. This qualitative study uses a case study approach on three students of university students in Malaysia who are suffering from depression. The purpose of this research are: i) to identify the thought patterns of students experiencing depression ii) to apply the cognitive restructuring technique to reduce depression among university students iii) to id.....

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