The education field is one of the aspects that have been linked to the economic field. Based on the Malaysian Education Blueprint 2013–2025, the learning environment is one of the aspects that should be improved in order to achieve the best academic performance. The aim of this study is to review a learning environment that influences achievement in the education field. This paper explores the meaning of the psychosocial learning environment by various researchers and even explores one of the most popular dimensions of the psychosocial learning environment, such as teacher and student relationships that is believed to be capable of affecting the academic performance. A good relationship between the teacher and student can leave positive impacts on the student’s level of motivation and attitude towards their learning. The findings of previous researchers were also included to support the arguments used in this study. Keywords: Psychosocial Learning Environment, Learning Environmen.....

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This study aimed to identify organizational citizenship behaviors and job satisfaction among special education teachers. This study utilised a quantitative approach with the survey method. Questionnaires were used as an instrument to collect research data from a sample of Special Education Integration Program teachers in the state of Perak, Malaysia. Overall, the preliminary findings showed that organizational citizenship behavior and job satisfaction among special education teachers were at a high level. It was also found that there existed a positive relationship between organizational citizenship behavior and job satisfaction. Findings from this study may contribute to the existing literature as well as provide empirical evidence related to organizational citizenship behavior and job satisfaction among special education teachers. In addition, the findings of this study were also expected to provide useful information to the State Department of Education regarding the organizational .....

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Various studies in instructional strategies have been conducted to enhance multicultural counselling competency. However, there is a lack of pedagogical approach for technological aspects in multicultural counselling, particularly for mobile learning. This article highlights the development of the Multicultural Counselling Mobile learning (M-learning) module using the ADDIE model. It concentrates on the first stage of the module development, which involved the needs analysis study to construct the framework of the module. 86 respondents consisted of counselling students both undergraduate and postgraduate were involved in the study. The results of the study indicated the positive needs for mobile learning during teaching and learning. The discussion and implications of the study that helped in the planning and designing of the multicultural counselling competency module were discussed. Keyword: competency, counsellors in training, ADDIE Model, Instructional strategies...

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The competency of Outdoor Recreation Coaches continues to be a debate among the community. This is because, issues pertaining to competency continue to be said as a result of various incidents and accidents in Outdoor Recreation and Outdoor Education activities. Today, various organizations, operators and operators of Outdoor and Education Recreation activities express their commitment to organize various promotions of challenging and enjoyable activities. But as far as the competency level capabilities of outdoor recreation coaches are really competent? Is there any evaluation or measurement instrument that is truly explicit in determining the competency of Outdoor Recreation coaches in Malaysia. Therefore, this article will peel off the issues and challenges faced in relation to the competency of Outdoor Recreation and Outdoor Education coaches. Keyword: Outdoor Recreation, Outdoor Education, Measurement & Competency..

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Principal component analysis (PCA) guided clustering approach is widely used in high dimensional data especially in identifying the spatial distribution patterns of daily torrential rainfall. Typically, a common method of identifying rainfall patterns for climatological investigation employed T mode based Pearson correlation matrix to extract the relative variance retained. However, rainfall data in Peninsular Malaysia involve skewed observations which only take positive values and are skewed towards higher values. Thus, applying PCA based Pearson correlation on rainfall data set could affect cluster partitions and generate extremely unbalanced clusters in a high dimensional space. Another issues that crop up in this study is classical clustering techniques have drawbacks where these techniques require certain assumptions which contradict with the characteristics of rainfall and these techniques divides the database of rainfall patterns into clusters with the assumption that every rain.....

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This study aims to identify the technical efficiency of Development Financial Institutions (DFIs) in Malaysia with the selected inputs of fixed asset and labour. Meanwhile, the output used in the study is financing. DFI is an institution that plays an important role in socio-economic development under the supervision of Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM). Using annual data from 2009 to 2018, technical efficiency is analysed using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) on the ten institutions selected in the DFIs. DEA results show that Sabah Development Bank Berhad (SDB) is the only institution considered as the most efficient. The rest of DFIs in the sample were deemed technical inefficient. The results also indicate that inefficient institutions including those with the lowest performance which are Credit Guarantee Corporation (CGC), Bank Pertanian Malaysia Berhad (Agrobank) and Bank Simpanan Nasional (BSN) have inefficient management in resource utilisation. Thus, activities in the operation of DFI.....

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The objectives of this study is to determine the chronic effects of unilateral versus bilateral resistance training on physical performance, movement mechanics, bilateral deficit and muscle architecture. Forty-five trained men were recruited as study participants and were divided into three groups; i) unilateral, ii) bilateral and iii) control group. The participants were divided into groups according to their 1RM strength performance in order to ensure that each groups are balanced in terms of strength or lifting abilities. During this study, participants underwent pre-test consisted of physical performance tests (unilateral and bilateral 1RM test, 30m sprint, vertical jump, agility t-test), movement mechanics (muscle activation and kinematics), bilateral deficit (sum of left and right limbs compared to bilateral strength score) and muscle architecture (muscle thickness, pennation angle and fascicle length of vastus lateralis, biceps femoris, biceps brachii, triceps brachii) .....

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This study attempts to determine the level of learner and customer identity among Malaysian students, their impact on academic performance (AP) and student-lecturer relationship (SLR) and the differences between students at public and private higher education institutions (HEIs). This study adopted a quantitative approach. Data collected from a sample of 400 students with at least in their second years of study was selected using a cluster sampling method. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire and analysed using descriptive statistics and structural equation modelling (SEM). The findings reveal the high level of learner identity (LI), but low in customer identity (CI) among Malaysian university students. LI has a positive and significant effect on academic performance and student-lecturer relationship, but CI only has a significant negative effect on academic performance. All the relationships do not differ significantly across public and private HEIs. The finding.....

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The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the educational landscape. As part of a state university's learning continuity plan, a flexible delivery system was implemented. This descriptive phenomenological study aims to investigate, through unstructured online interviews, the online teaching experience of ten (10) interns. Rigor was established following Lincoln and Guba’s (1985) Trustworthiness Framework. Using Colaizzi's (1979) thematic analysis, emergent themes were identified. The interns revealed their reached and unmet expectations, as well as the challenges in delivering their lessons and managing their classes. Nevertheless, they acknowledged the presence of a solid support system. They maintained a strong cognitive-social-teaching presence. They also displayed a growth mindset, resilience, integrity, and persistence in overcoming the challenges. Despite the difficulties they faced, they experienced successes and had realizations during their online teaching internship. Moving fo.....

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Co-operatives in Malaysia have crucial roles in developing business systems, and making it possible for the country to join the global co-operatives society and sophisticated economies. Therefore, top management in Malaysian Co-operatives are aggressively designing and executing their strategic plan through management accounting practices. The purpose of this research is to examine the association between the contemporary management accounting practices and managerial performance in the Malaysian’ co-operative sector. An empirical survey via questionnaires conducted on a sample of 100 leading co-operatives in Malaysia and management team of each co-operatives were the respondents. Descriptive statistics on the adoption level and its relationship with the managerial performance has been analysed. The finding indicates the level of contemporary management accounting practices is high and there is significant relationship between contemporary management accounting practices and manageme.....

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