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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The aims of this study were to 1) compare and contrast students’ behavioural patterns of engagement during lessons activities with and without the utilisation of Student Response System (SRS) and 2) gauge students’ perspectives on the use of SRS in English language classrooms. The participants of this study were 35 students undertaking an English proficiency course at a local university. This study employed classroom observations, field notes and interviews to gather the data. They were qualitatively analysed and triangulated using thematic analysis. The findings indicated that the participants displayed more engaged patterns of behaviours in the classrooms that utilised SRS compared to their behaviours in the ones without SRS. Students also viewed the utilisation of SRS as engaging and preferred to have more lessons with SRS. Based on the results of this study, it may be concluded that SRS was an effective tool to increase students’ behavioural patterns of engagement......

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Kajian ini dijalankan untuk mengkaji jenis-jenis kerjaya yang diminati oleh pelajar, faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi pemilihan kerjaya, cara-cara untuk mengatasi masalah pemilihan kerjaya serta peranan pihak sekolah untuk membantu pemilihan kerjaya bagi pelajar Tingkatan Empat Aliran Sains bagi kawasan bandar dan luar bandar di Negeri Kelantan. Kajian ini dijalankan secara kualitatif dengan menggunakan soal selidik soalan jenis terbuka kepada 15 orang pelajar di kawasan bandar dan 15 orang pelajar di kawasan luar bandar. Kaedah temu bual bersama seorang guru kaunselor dari sekolah menengah bandar dan luar bandar turut digunakan. Data yang diperoleh dalam kajian ini, kemudiannya dianalisis menggunakan kaedah Hermeneutik untuk mendalami pemilihan kerjaya dalam kalangan pelajar. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan jenis kerjaya yang dipilih merangkumi kerjaya yang melibatkan bidang Sains dan bukan Sains seperti doktor perubatan, doktor haiwan, ahli psikologi, guru, pensyarah dan sebaga.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti tahap amalan kepimpinan distributif pengetua, kepimpinan guru dan efikasi kendiri guru sekolah menengah kebangsaan (SMK) di Selangor serta hubungan antara ketiga-tiga pemboleh ubah. Kajian ini turut bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti pengaruh amalan kepimpinan distributif pengetua terhadap kepimpinan guru dan efikasi kendiri guru. Kajian kuantitatif ini menggunakan kaedah tinjauan. Instrumen kajian diadaptasi daripada instrumen Distributed Leadership Inventory (DLI), Teacher Leadership Self-Assessment (TLSA), dan Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES). Seramai 378 orang guru SMK di negeri Selangor dipilih sebagai responden kajian menggunakan pensampelan rawak berstrata. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan kepimpinan distributif pengetua diamalkan pada tahap tinggi (M=4.10, SP=0.23), manakala tahap amalan kepimpinan guru juga adalah tinggi (M=4.03, SP=0.20). Analisis deskriptif turut mendapati efikasi kendiri guru berada pada tahap tinggi (M=.....

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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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