Education 21st century is all about enfolding digital technology. The theme “Higher Education 4.0: Knowledge, Industry and Humanity”, mandated from Malaysia’s former Higher Education Minister Datuk Idris Jusoh. The minister identified that universities have to be trained to adapt and change the curriculum so that graduates are capable to fill in jobs which are yet to arise. This Fourth Industrial Revolution 4.0 as part of the call to revamp the Malaysia higher education system. There are nine Malaysia future-proof skills that has been listed under Ministry of Higher Education module on Framing Malaysian Higher Education 4.0 – future-proof talents. There are creativity and innovation; Holistic Entrepreneurial and Balanced; Resilience; leadership; Compassion and mindfulness; values and ethics; flexibility and adaptability; critical thinking and problem solving and finally communication and language proficiency. The above mentioned points are future-proof skills sets for Malaysian.....

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This research aims to investigate the quality of final examination test items given to the Computer and Networking Engineering students. The test items were developed by four chemistry teachers in the state vocational school (SVS) and private vocational school (PVS) in Bantul regency respectively. This research discusses on the quality of the test conducted and overall items developed by the chemistry teachers for both of SVS and PVS. The quality of the test items is measured by using four variables which are (1) material, construction, and language aspects, (2) cognitive level comparison, (3) the suitability of the materials tested to the materials covered in 2013 Curriculum, and (4) the suitability of the number of the test items given to the materials covered and time allocated. Ex-post facto research design was administered for this research. The sample of the research was taken from the final examination test items for the 10th grade vocational school students of the Computer and .....

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  Concerning on the rates social burden among the graduates of business education in Nigeria has provided an opportunity for the authors to extant the study to examine the current state of business education curriculum and the reformulation of business education curriculum equips the undergraduates with skills to start a business and engaging towards lifelong learning. A cross-sectional survey design was applied to achieve the objectives of the study. The design of the research is a quantitative method. Structured questionnaires were given to a sample of 289 participants (43 lecturers and 246 students) which were randomly selected across three universities in Nigeria. The data obtained are analyzed by the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 23.0 and the mean statistic is used to answer the research questions and standard deviations are used to assess the degree to which participants’ scores are clustered around the mean. The results show that the business educati.....

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Students between ages 13 to 18 years old are exposed to have career development assignments of life focused on the education field such as choosing majors or career fields. Students see career decision making is always accompanied by feelings of doubt, uncertainty, and even stress. In the end, students make their choice on careers by just following the decisions of their peers, which is not necessarily the right decision for them. Their decision taken can lead to career success. The purpose of this study to determine the effect of the conformity of students' decision making for their careers. The quantitative research methods are used where the samples are 136 students of class XII. Data are obtained from the Likert scale instrument and analyzed using regression analysis. The result shows there is influence between conformity and students’ decision making for their career. The findings of the research are the categorization score of conformity is in high category with 60.29%, while t.....

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Speaking skill assessment is gaining great interest in the field of assessment nowadays. Literature has highlighted reliability of raters in rating a speaking performance as one of the challenges due to human’s subjective nature. This study has attempted to explore the influence of rater training on rater reliability in the assessment of a spoken task. A qualitative research design was used and, semi-structured interview was employed to obtain data for this study. A total of 21 secondary school teachers participated in the study. They were raters trained to assess an oral English interaction test. Data were analyzed using thematic content analysis which resulted in three main categories i.e. importance of rater training, effects of rater training on rater reliability, and improvement of rater training. The results show that rater training is essential before any rating is to be done, and its effects include, among others, maintaining rating consistency, exposure to test task, and cri.....

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Student assessment is a process that entails the collection of evidence of learning in diverse and systematic ways to make judgments on students’ learning. What then is the perception of this vital tool in the hands of the users (teachers)? This study investigates teachers’ conceptions of assessment and their choices of assessment tasks in postgraduate teacher training. Action research with one group pretest-posttest design was adopted for the study. The survey used to collect data for this study has three sections (A, B, & C). Section A elicits participants’ personal information; Section B contains 20 different assessment tasks. Section C includes 26 items that examined participants’ conceptions of assessment from four different sub-scales (school accountability, student accountability, improvement of teaching and learning, and irrelevance factors). The researchers further validated the survey, and the Alpha reliability coefficient of the whole scale was 0.85. Data collected f.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk meneroka impak program “Artists in Schools” atau AiS terhadap motivasi murid sekolah menengah dalam Pendidikan Seni Visual (PSV) di Semenanjung Malaysia. Program ini adalah satu usaha kolaborasi yang dijalankan di antara pihak sekolah dan pelukis dalam membentuk perkongsian kemahiran dan pengalaman pelukis bersama muridmurid. Kaedah kajian kes digunakan dalam kajian. Peserta kajian terdiri daripada 9 orang murid mewakili 9 buah sekolah berbeza di Semenanjung Malaysia. Instrumen kajian terdiri daripada protokol temu bual, borang pemerhatian dan analisis dokumen. Proses triangulasi dijalankan terhadap tiga jenis data empirikal yang dikumpul melalui temu bual, pemerhatian dan analisis dokumen. Penilaian motivasi dilakukan menggunakan Teori Motivasi ARCS Keller yang merangkumi empat elemen utama: Perhatian (Attention), Kaitan (Relevance), Keyakinan (Confidence) dan Kepuasan (Satisfaction). Dapatan utama temu bual menunjukkan peserta kajian bersetuj.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan menentukan kesan strategi pengajaran integrasi Kandungan, Perwakilan dan Kemahiran Berfikir Aras Tinggi (KP-KBAT) terhadap pencapaian dan sikap murid tingkatan 4 dalam penyelesaian masalah algebra. Reka bentuk kajian yang digunakan ialah kuasi eksperimen ujian pra-pasca kumpulan kawalan tidak setara. Sampel kajian terdiri daripada dua buah kelas berjumlah 42 murid Tingkatan 4 yang dipilih secara rawak berkelompok daripada sebuah sekolah di daerah Kulim Bandar Baharu, Kedah. Kumpulan eksperimen (24 murid) menjalani pengajaran strategi KPKBAT manakala kumpulan kawalan (18 murid) menjalani Strategi Pengajaran Konvensional (SPK) bagi topik Ungkapan dan Persamaan Kuadratik. Dua jenis instrumen digunakan bagi mengumpul data iaitu Ujian Pra dan Pasca Pencapaian Ungkapan dan Persamaan Kuadratik dan Soal Selidik Sikap terhadap Penyelesaian Masalah. Data dianalisis menggunakan statistik deskriptif iaitu min dan sisihan piawai, disusuli dengan analisis statistik i.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan membangunkan modul pengajaran dan pembelajaran aktif topik tumbuhan sains darjah tiga dan seterusnya menguji keberkesanan modul dari aspek pencapaian murid dalam topik yang dipelajari, kemahiran proses sains dan minat murid kepada subjek sains. Modul ini berfokuskan pembelajaran aktif yang berpusatkan murid. Bagi mencapai tujuan tersebut Model ADDIE digunakan untuk membangunkan modul pengajaran dan pembelajaran aktif ini. Seramai 50 orang murid yang terdiri daripada murid darjah tiga dipilih sebagai sampel kajian. Tiga instrumen utama kajian yang digunakan iaitu soalan pra dan pasca, borang soal selidik dan juga senarai semak. Hasil dapatan soalan pra dan pasca yang dianalis menggunakan t-test menunjukkan peningkatan ketara bagi kumpulan eksperimen iaitu nilai signifikan (p=0.03) p0.05. Keadaan ini menunjukkan bahawa penggunaan modul pengajaran dan pembelajaran aktif ini berjaya meningkatkan pencapaian murid. Kesimpulannya, modul pengajaran dan pembelaj.....

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The study ascertained the profile of students and faculty members and the level of their critical thinking, collaboration, communication, creativity and innovation, self-direction, global connections, local connections skills, and use of technology as a tool for learning. It also determined the significant difference among the 21st century skills and the dimensions, profile and the respondents. It also determined if a significant relationship exists between the levels of the 21st century skills among students, faculty members, and administrators. Survey through a questionnaire was used to gather data. Stratified sampling technique was applied in determining the 539 students, 125 faculty members, and 35 administrator respondents in the study. Frequency count and percentage were employed to find out the profile of students, faculty members and administrators. Mean rating was used to determine their level of 21st century skills. Results revealed that most of the student respondents are fe.....

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