This study examines the raters’ assessment quality when measuring teachers’ competency in Classroom Assessment (CA) using the Many Facet Rasch Model (MFRM) analysis. The instrument used consists of 56 items built based on 3 main constructs: knowledge in CA, skills in CA, and attitude towards CA. The research design of this study is a quantitative method with a multi-rater approach using a questionnaire distributed to the raters. Respondents are 68 raters consisting of The Head of Mathematics and Science Department, The Head of Mathematics Panel, and the Mathematics Teacher to assess 27 ratees. The ratees involved in this study are 27 secondary school Mathematics teachers from Selangor. The results show that among the advantages of MFRM are that it can determine the severity and consistency level of the raters, also detect bias interaction between rater and ratee. Although all raters were given the same instrument, the same aspects of evaluation, and scale category, MFRM can compare.....

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The study aimed at knowing and analyzing the need, design, properness and effectiveness of ethnoscience based e-Book SAC development to promote scientific literacy of Natural Science Subject-theme 6 of the fifth grader of Elementary School in Mranggen Demak. This study is a research and developmental model referring to Borg & Gall consisting of 10 phases simplified in four stages, i.e., preliminary stage, development and validation, field test and dissemination. In collecting the data, the study used observation, interview, questionnaire of need and expert validation sheet, student achievement test and documentation. The data analysis was qualitatively and quantitatively done. The subject of the study was 7 teachers and 45 students of fifth grader of Elementary School at the Sub-district of Mranggen, Demak Regency. The research result showed that the needed e-book SAC was digital book which is interactive, communicative and helping students study learning books easily, because the deve.....

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The aims of this study are to explain the educational achievements of the children of employees who are recipients of the Djarum Foundation scholarship at Djarum Company Primary Krapyak Kudus and to explain the obstacles in providing Djarum foundation scholarship assistance. Achievement relates to the assessment of how a product meets certain criteria, standards or references. In the world of education, this standard can be formulated through learning outcomes of scholastic subjects that can be measured quantitatively, and qualitative observations, especially in the fields of social knowledge. Meanwhile, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a concept which means that companies must have responsibilities towards employees, the community, and the surrounding environment in every operational activity. This research is a type of qualitative descriptive research. Sources of data in this study are primary data and secondary data. Data collection techniques using interviews, observation a.....

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In a normal situation, a university is constantly utilizing standard statistical analysis tools to provide a student's ranking through their academic achievement. The tools provides analysis of pairwise comparison among students on their academic performance but unfortunately visualization of the results is limited to the use of line graph, histogram, tables and boxplot which are not easily explained. In this study, another way of analyzing the pairwise comparison of academic performance on Mathematics among students is introduced that is by using interaction graph which is based on a weighted directed graph approach. The ranking of student’s performance in Mathematics is calculated using Page Rank (PR) algorithm. A sample of final examination result for twenty-one students whom enrolled in Mathematics courses in Fakulti Sains Komputer dan Matematik (FSKM), UiTM Shah Alam are investigated. Their performance by marks in two Mathematics courses taken before the pandemic and three Mathe.....

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The issue with online learning is that children must study at home, thus teachers are expected to develop innovative and creative learning so that kindergarten students enjoy it. The objective of this research was to explore the methods involved in developing Interactive PowerPoint Game Media (POPOIN) for children aged 4 to 6 in Jepara Regency kindergartens. The research method was using research and development which was adopted from media development by Sugiyon. The research procedure has ten steps, but this study only uses four: (1) potential problems, (2) finding information, (3) product design, (4) design validation, and data collection techniques such as observation, student questionnaires, and evaluation tests. The sources of data are from teachers and students in Al-Hikmah Kindergarten, Kuwasen Kindergarten, Baitul Makmur Kindergarten, and East Suwawal Kindergarten IV at Jepara Regency. Techniques for collecting data include observation, questionnaires, and documentation. Data .....

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This study investigated how preschool teachers carry out the teaching and learning process during the Covid-19 pandemic. It also explored pre-school teachers’ experiences and challenges of online teaching during the pandemic. A qualitative research method specifically case study was employed to describe how the pre-school teachers comprehend their experiences with a phenomenon. Eleven pre-school teachers were selected using snowball sampling method. All the eleven teachers had more than ten years of teaching experience. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with all of them. An interview protocol was developed and all the items were open-ended questions. Interview data were transcribed and re-read many times to generate the codes. Emergent themes and categories were then checked and confirmed based on reliable sources from the literature. Data were then analysed using thematic analysis. Findings showed that the Covid-19 pandemic had negative effects on pre-school education and .....

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This qualitative research study was conducted to determine the pre-service teachers’ experiences in science teaching as bases for curriculum enhancement. The participants of this study were the 8 pre-service science teachers of Capiz State University-Roxas City Campus as well as Capiz State University-Pontevedra Campus during their pre-service teaching journey in S.Y. 2018-2019. The sample was determined purposively based on criteria set by the researchers. The study found out that the pre-service science teachers experienced troubles with regards to the complexity of science topics, have difficulties in preparing a lesson plan, and have misconceptions in employing teaching strategies and facilitating classroom activities. Moreover, they are challenged with the advent of the spiral curriculum. It was evident that the informants’ beliefs and attitudes in teaching science were observable in all folks of science teaching especially when it comes to their precept in teaching the subjec.....

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MOOC’s have advantaged many people through the provision of a variety of free online courses with zero learning commitment by prestigious universities around the world. It has attracted the enrolment of millions of people. Despite the millions of participations, drop-out rates are high and this has become the main issue regarding the effectiveness of MOOCs and its delivery system. This study therefore, is a quest to identify motivational factors that have contributed to the completion rates among MOOC course participants in Malaysian context. A descriptive-correlation research design was employed and simple random sampling technique was used to select 100 students from the Faculty of Education from a public university to participate in this study. The response rate of 73% was satisfactory. Results of this study revealed only motivation factors (r=.602, p..

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Kajian ini bertujuan membangunkan sebuah modul pengajaran dan pembelajaran bagi membantu guru yang mengajar murid Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Tamil (SJKT) di Tahun Empat menghasilkan struktur ayat yang lengkap dengan tatabahasa yang betul. Kajian Reka bentuk dan Pembangunan (Design and Development Research Approach, DDR) telah digunakan bagi membangunkan modul WATAK dengan kaedah Jadual Ansur Maju (JAM). Sampel kajian terdiri daripada 133 orang guru Bahasa Melayu di SJKT yang terlibat dalam Fasa I dan Fasa III. Manakala 18 orang panel pakar yang terdiri daripada SISC+, munsyi bahasa, jurulatih utama kebangsaan dan negeri, guru cemerlang, pensyarah maktab, ketua panitia dan guru mata pelajaran dilibatkan dalam Fasa II. Dapatan kajian terbahagi kepada tiga fasa. Dapatan Fasa I Analisis Keperluan menunjukkan kesemua responden kajian (N = 119) bersetuju terhadap pembangunan modul WATAK. Selain itu, dapatan analisis dokumen menunjukkan terdapat lapan aspek masalah penulisan yang se.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk membina dan menentusahkan Instrumen Strategi Menghafaz al-Quran (ISMEQ) yang mengukur tahap strategi menghafaz al-Quran dalam kalangan pelajar Tahfiz Model Ulul Albab (TMUA). Kajian ini menggunakan kaedah kuantitatif berbentuk tinjauan dengan skala likert empat mata. Responden terdiri daripada 549 orang pelajar Tingkatan 4 di bawah kelolaan Maktab Rendah Sains Mara (MRSM) dan Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia (KPM). Draf awal instrumen yang dibangunkan mempunyai 59 item yang dibina berdasarkan model Crocker, L., dan Algina, J. daripada empat konstruk iaitu strategi matlamat, strategi perancangan, strategi aktiviti pengukuhan dan strategi persediaan dalaman. ISMEQ menggunakan model pengukuran Rasch melalui kesepadanan item seperti MNSQ, unidimensionaliti, analisis kebebasan setempat dan polariti item (PTMEA). Hanya 52 item dikekalkan dalam draf akhir ISMEQ berdasarkan nilai analisis komponen principal (PCA) dan kesepadanan item. Keputusan PCA menunju.....

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