The sudden shift to remote teaching caused by COVID-19 pandemic has created a stressful and demanding context for teachers, specifically on the aspect of delivering remote instruction. This ascertained the challenges and opportunities encountered by 311 public basic education teachers attending different online training platforms and utilized the mixed method design in analyzing the data of the teachers’ online facilitation skills and used the scanning method in the data collection process. The challenges and opportunities they encountered was conducted through an unstructured interview via Zoom. The researcher-made questionnaires were sent to the teachers via email. Results revealed that teachers already had prerequisite ICT skills so the use of technology during the online training was not so much a threat in the enhancement of their ICT knowledge and skills except of the issues regarding very slow internet access and the lack of necessary and proper equipment and gadgets. In concl.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan membantu murid-murid menguasai Bahasa Seni Visual sepertimana ketetapan perlaksanaan Kurikulum Standard Sekolah Menengah (KSSM) yang berpaksikan Pendidikan Abad Ke-21. Kajian ini dijalankan bagi mengenalpasti keperluan penggunaan bahan bantu belajar yang efektif, membangunkan kit BSV sebagai bahan bantu belajar dan mengenalpasti keberkesanan penggunaan kit BSV sebagai bahan bantu belajar dalam meningkatkan tahap penguasaan murid-murid tingkatan 2. Kajian ini dijalankan secara kualitatif dengan menggunakan reka bentuk kajian kes ke atas murid tingkatan dua di SMK Maran berbeza aliran, iaitu sebuah kelas aliran agama dan tiga buah kelas aliran biasa yang terletak di luar bandar. Lima sampel telah dipilih daripada setiap kelas berdasarkan pencapaian PBD tertinggi di dalam kelas masing-masing. Dua orang guru bukan opsyen Pendidikan Seni Visual tingkatan dua dan mantan pengetua sebagai responden. Pemerhatian dan temu bual menjadi kaedah utama pengumpulan dat.....

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This study aimed to provide understanding on the significance of prosocial behavior and psychological well-being among undergraduate students of Sultan Idris Education University (UPSI). Undergraduate students (N=156) among 48 males and 108 females involved in this study. This is a quantitative study that use online survey method to obtain the data. The participants involved completed a set of questionnaire that consists of demographic information, Prosocialness Scale for Adults, and Ryff’s Scale of Psychological Well-being. The results of present study revealed that there is a positive correlation between prosocial behavior and psychological well-being (r = .30), and also a positive correlation between prosocial behavior and domain of psychological well-being of positive relations with others (r = .429) among undergraduate students of UPSI. Additional finding proved that prosocial behavior does have significant effect on psychological well-being of the undergraduate students of UPSI.....

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The economic globalization and the implementation of the One Belt and One Road initiative directly reflected the urgent needs of Arabic language talents. As a result, many universities and colleges opened Arabic for economic and trade negotiations (AETN). This course aims to cultivate such interdisciplinary talents in the Arabic language. However, this research explored the relationship between students’ needs and teaching methods which affected the teaching quality of the AETN. The study adopted a quantitative method and the data collected were analyzed through correlation by using the SPSS software. The research finding revealed that there were significant positive correlations between students’ needs and teaching methods in the teaching of AETN (r = .596, p < .01). The research will be a benefit for teachers and lecturers to adapt the teaching methods to improve the teaching quality of the AETN, and to promote the development of AETN teaching in Ningxia university of energy and .....

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This study aimed to investigate the relationship between medication adherence and health-related quality of life among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) patients. A correlational survey design was used in this study. The study was conducted through assisted questionnaire administration via face to face with 188 T2DM patients. The questionnaire used was the Medication Compliance Questionnaire (MCQ) and Diabetes Quality of Life revised version (DQoL-R). Descriptive analysis, Crosstabs analysis and Chi-Square test was used to run the data of this study. Result shows the average age of the participants were 64.60 years old and a significant relationship was found between medication adherences with the domain Worry in diabetes quality of life. In conclusion, this study may provide a significant finding on quality of life factors which also need to be appropriately intervene in order to improve medication adherence among type 2 diabetes patients in Malaysian health care. Keywords: Medication.....

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The objective of this study to investigate the views of parents toward the practice of pre-school ethos on routines activities in PERPADUAN (Unity) Pre-school settings. The study involved 30 parents from three PERPADUAN Pre-school settings. A qualitative methodology was applied. In-depth interviews were conducted with the parents. The primary findings of this case study emergent: the data and quotes from parents shown an important view of a pre-school ethos that claims to be multi-ethnic. There are the similarities and differences between pre-school ethos in line with the parental norms and values from parents’ perspectives. For example, daily practices in the PERPADUAN Pre-school were acceptable. The common routine activities in pre-school day consist of the arrival time, morning assembly, hand-kissing, the salaam, the Rukun Negara (Malaysia Principle) and Negaraku (Malaysia Anthem), outdoor activity, and table manners during meal time. However, despite a good practices of multi-eth.....

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Even though we have effectively completed a fifth of this new century, non-formal education through community-based learning and other traditional avenues of learning persist as powerful forces in the growth of the human lifespan, particularly for native peoples who have thousands of years of local knowledge. Focusing on Malaysia’s Orang Asli (native peoples), this study was conducted to map the field until a more detailed research project is undertaken for the next two years at the Royal Belum State Park in Perak State, Malaysia. Six Orang Asli adolescents (three females and three males) from two local higher learning institutions in Perak were interviewed individually and through focus group sessions regarding their engagement with non-formal education within their own communities, from when they were much younger up to this present time. This study focuses on three non-formal educational permutations as operationalised by our guiding (research) questions. First, as tales of the wo.....

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Tujuan kajian ini adalah untuk mengkaji kesan penggunaan Strategi Membuat Inferens terhadap pencapaian, minat dan motivasi membaca murid dalam mata pelajaran Bahasa Cina. Kajian ini mengguna reka bentuk eksperimen kuasi. Subjek kajian terdiri daripada 70 orang murid Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Cina (SJKC) tahun lima. Seramai 37 orang murid dalam kumpulan rawatan diajar menggunakan strategi membuat inferens dan 33 orang murid dalam kumpulan kawalan diajar menggunakan teknik konvensional. Data kuantitatif dikumpul melalui pra-ujian, pasca-ujian dan soal selidik. Data kualitatif dikumpul melalui temu bual untuk menyokong data-data kuantitatif. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan tiada perbezaan yang signifikan bagi pencapaian antara kumpulan rawatan (M=57.84, SP=18.58) dan kumpulan kawalan (M=56.97, SP=19.60) dalam pra-ujian, t(68) = -.190, p > .05, iaitu pencapaian murid pada tahap yang sama. Namun, dapatan kajian mendapati bahawa terdapat perbezaan yang signifikan bagi pencapaian antara.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti perlaksanaan Elemen Merentas Kurikulum Keusahawanan dalam mata pelajaran Pendidikan Seni Visual sekolah rendah. Kajian ini memberi tumpuan terhadap aplikasi Buku Panduan Elemen Merentas Kurikulum Keusahawanan yang disediakan oleh Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia terbitan Bahagian Pembangunan Kurikulum pada tahun 2012. Kajian ini memfokuskan kepada lima Elemen yang terkandung dalam Buku Panduan Elemen Merentas Kurikulum Keusahawanan seperti yang disarankan dalam proses pengajaran dan pembelajaran. Kajian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan rekabentuk kajian kes ke atas sebuah sekolah kategori luar bandar. Peserta kajian terdiri daripada 30 orang murid dan 10 orang guru. Selain penerapan elemen merentas kurikulum dalam proses pengajaran dan pembelajaran, peserta kajian turut terlibat dalam aktiviti karnival keusahawanan di peringkat Daerah dengan membuat jualan karya seni yang hasilkan. Instrumen temu bual dan pemerhatian digu.....

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The issue of zakat on income has been discussed by scholars since those days of sahabah and tabi’in until today. Among the issues are hawl (lapse of a year), nisab (the capability line for zakat contribution) and al-hawa’ij al-asliyyah (basic needs). For the case of al-hawa’ij al-asliyyah, the practice of zakat institution in Malaysia is to directly convert the exempted amount of personal, spouse and children, which is similarly performed by Lembaga Hasil Dalam Negeri (LHDN). The practice has raised a question among scholars. They argue whether the exempted amounts are exactly representing the costs of al-hawa’ij al-asliyyah which are required by shariah. Thus, this paper aims to explore the discussion of shariah on al-hawa’ij al-asliyyah with the specific items which has been conferred in classical fiqh and investigate the suitable items which is currently customized in daily life. The study applied a library research methodology by gathering the data from classical fiqh whi.....

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