The study aimed to identify the extent to which the teachers of the second field practice augmented reality technology in science teaching to develop higher-order thinking skills among students of the first cycle, in the South Al Sharqiyah Oman. The researcher used the descriptive design, using a valid and reliable questionnaire with a sample of (196) teachers. The teachers have an average implementation (M=2.92, SD= 0.75) of augmented reality technology in their teaching. Teachers mentioned that they are facing high challenges in employing augmented reality technology (M=3.75, SD=0.52). The differences are statistically significant (α=0.05) according to teachers’ teaching experience (F= 3.78 df, 192،3) in favor of female teachers less than 5 years. About the training variable, female teachers who joined the training program implementing more the augmented reality technology in science teaching (T = 2.92, df 194). There are statistically significant differences (α=0.05).....

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Kajian ini adalah untuk meneliti keperluan guru kelas tinggi Sekolah Dasar terhadap instrumen pentaksiran kemahiran membaca, membangunkan instrumen berkenaan, dan melakukan proses kesahan, kebolehpercayaan, dan kebolehgunaan instrumen yang telah dibangunkan. Kaedah penyelidikan reka bentuk dan pembangunan model Dick & Carey dipilih bagi proses reka bentuk dan pembangunan instrumen. Tiga fasa kajian dijalankan bagi menjawab tiga persoalan kajian. Mengikut fasa pertama, análisis keperluan pihak pengguna telah dilakukan sebagai asas kajian tahap kedua. Lima orang pakar, tiga orang guru dan dua belas orang pelajar telah dipilih untuk menilai instrumen. Enam belas instrumen pentaksiran kemahiran membaca telah dibangunkan mengikut fasa kedua yang sedia untuk dinilai oleh pakar dan pihak pengguna. Empat Sekolah Dasar, lapan orang pelajar dan satu orang guru kelas 5 daripada tiap-tiap sekolah telah ditetapkan untuk penilaian kumpulan kecil mengikut fasa ketiga. Masih pada fasa ket.....

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This study investigates the degree of inclusiveness of youth in the Indian labour market concerning Goal 4 and Goal 8 of the Sustainable Development Goals-2030. For this purpose, the study engages logistic regression by considering the 50th (1993/94), 55th (1999/00), 61st (2004/05) and 68th (2011/12) rounds of (un)employment surveys of NSSO. The empirical results reflect the high exclusion of youth in the Indian labour market, especially the female youth. By highlighting labour market exclusion as a challenge to economic development, the study further explores the intensity of risk factors affecting youth to remain excluded from the labour market. The findings divulge that gender remains a significant contributor to exclusion, often restricting access to employment. However, youth from low income, minorities, certain castes or religious groups are in many cases, even more, excluded from economic development. The implications of this study contribute by identifying the risk factors of y.....

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The fashion industry is one of the main contributors to the world’s largest pollution. It is due to the tons of water usage producing excess carbon dioxide gas, excessive use of energy to produce clothing, and non-renewable sources for fibre, fibre, and environmental pollution with harmful chemicals. This study aims to explore the benefits of using sustainable fashion design materials and manufacturing practices. In-depth interviews were conducted with six experts in the fashion industry. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic analysis. The findings revealed four themes of sustainable fashion benefits, i.e., reduce environmental pollution, increase consumer convenience, reduce costs, and increase societal development. Sustainability is an important aspect of fashion design, whether in producing fibre or the production of fashion design itself. Therefore, the fashion industry must be responsible to the community and the environment by ensuring less negati.....

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This study was aimed to develop and evaluate the Rhyme Song Module as an alternative approach for English teachers. The study also analyses the effectiveness of the Rhyme Song Module on the spelling and sounding achievement of seven years old children. This is applied research by using quantitative research based on the ADDIE instructional model, (i) Analysis; (ii) Design; (iii) Development; (iv) Implementation; and (v) Evaluation. Using a quantitative approach with quasi-experiment method, the results of the Pre-Test and Post-Test were analysed and summarized in the study. Convenient sampling was used to select the participants of the study where 50 students from Year One were chosen from a government funded primary school. The participants were divided into two groups which were the control group and treatment group with 25 students each. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential analysis. The results obtained showed that the treatment group which the Rhyme Song.....

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This study examined the effect of the one-minute-paper cooperative learning strategy on junior secondary school student's academic achievement in business studies in Ogun State Nigeria. The study adopted a quasi-experimental design with a 2 x 2 x 2 factorial matrix. Three research questions and 4 hypotheses guided the study. 200 Junior Secondary School II students, who in their intact classes, were selected from four secondary schools in Ogun State, were used for the experiment. Business Studies Achievement Test (BSAT) was the instrument validated and used for data collection. The reliability coefficient of the BSAT was determined using the Cronbach alpha technique and the analysis yielded a coefficient of 0.85. Mean was used to answer the research questions while Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA) was employed to test the hypotheses at a 0.05 level of significance. The findings showed that there is a significant difference between the mean scores of students taught business.....

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Increasing competition in the Philippines pop music industry demanded an investigation into consumer buying behaviour. Therefore, the study aims to describe the consumer buying behaviour of the Philippines music industry. Accordingly, 284 music buyers were sampled using the convenience sampling technique at two music stores in SM Baguio City, Philippines, and surveyed. Data were analyzed by using descriptive analysis. The findings indicate that most respondents purchased one music product in a single purchase (65.5%), preferred pop genre (20.1%), preferred music band (46.6%), preferred Sony (54.6%), spent 30 minutes on a music purchase (41.5%), buy music products one a month (56.3%), and spent PhP 200 or less for music monthly (55.3%). Hence, it is important for music stores managers who wish to expand the music industry to take consumer buying behaviour into foremost consideration. However, the actual behaviour of human being is such a complicated and overlapping manner that not all f.....

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Small businesses commonly encounter difficulties in gaining access to credit facilities and continuous capacity building, which affected their survival. Therefore, this study aims to describe managers’ perspectives of business mentoring on small-scale business survival. Specifically, the study identifies the extent to which mentoring aid credit facility accessibility and promote capacity building for small scale business survival. The study utilized a descriptive survey research design. The study population was 1397 registered small scale enterprise in Delta Central Senatorial District of Delta State. A proportionate sampling technique was used to select 140 respondents for the study. Data was collected using a questionnaire as an instrument. Three experts validated the instrument, and Cronbach’s alpha statistics tested the reliability and yielded 0.97. Descriptive statistics of mean was used to answer the research questions with a mean average of 2.50 above as high extent and 2.49.....

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Wearable resistance (WR) is used in sport training with the aim of increasing performance by enabling sport-specific movements to occur with additional loading. Despite of its potential of allowing athletes to move more specific, studies examining WR during kicking in Taekwondo is scarce. The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of WR loading on the biomechanics of axe kick. Thirty (N=30) university taekwondo athletes have been recruited as participants in this study. This study requires the participants to undergo the middle axe kick testing with WR loading worn at lower body (0%, 5%, 10%, and 15% of body mass) during the execution. High-speed motion capture system was used to analyse kinematic data (kicking velocity, kicking time, kicking height, hip angle and leg displacement). Force plate was used to measure ground reaction force (GRF) while electromyography was used to determine muscle activation (vastus lateralis, rectus abdominis, gastrocnemius medial, gl.....

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Kajian ini dilakukan dalam usaha mengetahui sikap dan kemahiran guru bahasa Tamil terhadap penggunaan Teknologi Maklumat dan Komunikasi (TMK) dalam Pengajaran dan Pemudahcaraan (PdPc). Sikap dan kemahiran guru dikaji menggunakan modal penerimaan teknologi (TAM). Faktor kebergunaan dan faktor kemudahgunaan dalam usaha untuk menentukan faktor sebenar yang mempengaruhi guru bahasa Tamil terhadap penggunaan TMK dalam PdPc bahasa Tamil digunakan sebagai pemboleh ubah kajian ini. Kajian ini menggunakan kaedah campuran iaitu kualitatif dan kuantitatif yang melibatkan dua instrumen iaitu temuduga berstruktur dan soal selidik. Kajian ini melibatkan 96 sekolah Tamil di Negeri Selangor dan sejumlah 260 guru bahasa Tamil mengambil bahagian dalam kajian ini. Data yang di peroleh melalui soal selidik telah dinilai dengan menggunakan perisian SPSS manakala data temuduga berstruktur dirumus dan didokumentasikan mengikut kronologi menggunakan perisian NVIVO. Dapatan temuduga merumuskan kerj.....

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