Kajian ini bertujuan untuk membina model pembuatan keputusan berasaskan faktor dalam pelaksanaan dasar 60:40 di sekolah menengah harian di Malaysia. Pendekatan kajian yang digunakan  adalah kajian reka bentuk dan pembangunan (design and development research) yang dilaksanakan   dalam  tiga  fasa  iaitu  fasa  analisis  keperluan,  fasa  pembangunan  dan rekabentuk serta fasa  penilaian. Fasa analisis keperluan dilaksanakan dengan menggunakan kaedah temu bual semi-struktur  bersama tujuh orang pakar. Manakala fasa pembangunan dan rekabentuk dijalankan dalam dua peringkat.  Peringkat pertama adalah temu-bual pakar bagi mengenal pasti aspek yang perlu dimasukkan ke dalam  model yang dibina. Seterusnya peringkat  kedua  melibatkan  20  orang pakar  dimana  teknik  fuzzy   delphi  digunakan  bagi mencapai kesepakatan pakar. Pada fasa kedua kajian ini, satu model  prototaip telah dibina. Seterusnya,  fasa  penilaian  melibatkan  347  orang  pengetua.....

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The  relationship  between  budget deficit  and  economic  growth  is  one  of  the  most important  issues debated by economists and policymakers in developed and developing countries. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship  by concentrating on  theoretical  debates, empirical  studies and  econometric  models  to  obtain substantive  conclusions.   These   conclusions   are  beneficial   in   the  field  of   macroeconomics.  Construction or development of macroeconomic  models is used to analyze the impact of budget  deficit on Malaysia’s  economic  growth. The  effects of  the budget deficit formation would lead  to the formation of other macroeconomic variables, such as debt, rising   interest   rates   and    decreasing   government   spending,   productive  or   non- productive. This  study was conducted  using time series  data collected from 1985 to 2018 to fulfil three specific object.....

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The purpose of the research was to determine the effects of climate change on wetland water resources. The survey has captured the research questions, objectives, types of data  collected, procedure and analysis. Data from meteorology station that covers the period of thirty  years from 1980-2010 was used. The objective of this study was to assess the evidences of climate  change in the Lake Chad basin Borno state, measure the climate change effects on the seasonal  variations, investigate and assess the local adaptation measures undertaken by communities to the  effects of climate change on wetlands and identify the significant differences between adaptation  approaches and respondent?s  gender,  age  and  academic  qualifications.  Random  sampling   technique was conducted to select 252 respondents as 20% of the sample from a population of 1277.   Descriptive  statistics  of  percentages,  bar  charts  were  used  to  investigate  and assessed  .....

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Kajian  ini  bertujuan  untuk  mengenalpasti  persepsi  guru  Pendidikan  Islam  sekolah rendah  di  Daerah  Kuala  Kangsar  terhadap  kefahaman  dan  kesediaan  pelaksanaan pengajaran   abad  ke-21  serta  hubungan  di  antara  persepsi  guru  Pendidikan  Islam terhadap   kefahaman    dan   kesediaan   dalam   pelaksanaan   pengajaran   abad   ke-21. Pendekatan  kuantitatif  dengan   kaedah  tinjauan  telah  digunakan  dalam  kajian  ini. Pemilihan  sampel  secara  rawak  mudah  melibatkan  140  orang responden  di  sekolah rendah  Daerah  Kuala  Kangsar.  Data  dikumpul   melalui  soal  selidik  dan  dianalisis dengan menggunakan analisis deskriptif dan inferensi.  Statistik deskriptif melibatkan skor  min,  sisihan  piawai,  frekuensi  dan  peratus  manakala   statistik  inferensi  pula melibatkan  ujian  korelasi  Pearson  yang  menerangkan  hubungan  di   antara  persepsi guru.....

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Penyelidikan   ini   bertujuan   untuk   mengenal   pasti   perkhidmatan   sokongan   yang diperlukan oleh jurulatih dalam kalangan guru. Kaedah kajian yang digunakan dalam penyelidikan ini  adalah kajian kualitatif berdasarkan pendekatan ‘Grounded Theory’ seperti yang dicadangkan oleh  Strauss & Corbin. Temu bual semi berstruktur terhadap 10   orang   peserta   kajian   digunakan   dalam   penyelidikan   ini   bagi   mendapatkan  maklumat atau data premier yang mencapai kepada objektif kajian ini. Selain itu, data daripada   pemerhatian  dan  analisis  dokumen  berkaitan  dengan  kejurulatihan  juga dianalisis untuk  menyokong data premier. Pemerolehan daripada semua data tersebut telah   dianalisis   menggunakan    kaedah   Thematic   Analysis   seperti   yang   telah dicadangkan   oleh   Patton.   Setiap   data    perlu   melalui   proses   pengekodan   iaitu pengekodan  terbuka,  pengek.....

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Kajian  kualitatif  berbentuk  etnografi  seperti  yang  telah  dicadangkan  oleh  Sands  ini bertujuan mengkaji tahap kompetensi guru sebagai jurulatih bola sepak dan kesannya terhadap   prestasi  pemain  Pusat  Latihan  Daerah  (PLD)  di  Kuala  Lumpur.  Kajian  ini dijalankan  selama   sembilan  bulan  bermula  dari  Julai  2018  hingga  April  2019. Sebanyak 10 orang jurulatih PLD  dalam kalangan guru telah terlibat sebagai peserta kajian  dan  ditemu  bual  bagi  mendapatkan   data.  Jumlah  peserta  kajian  telah  di tentukan oleh tahap “saturation of information” di mana  peserta kajian yang di temu bual  didapati  sudah  tidak  dapat  mengemukakan  sesuatu  data  yang   baru  berbanding dengan peserta kajian sebelumnya. Data hasil dari temu bual, pemerhatian dan  kajian lapangan   serta   dokumen   yang   berkaitan   telah   dianalisis   menggunakan   kaedah  thematic   analysis   seper.....

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Socio emotional development is an important element in the development of preschoolers. This study aims to identify a high level of socio emotional development among preschoolers. This is a qualitative case study and data were collected through interviews and document analysis. The study involved three participants who were chosen through purposive sampling technique. All three preschoolers were interviewed based on the drawings they made during the drawing activity at school. The study found that high socio emotional development in preschoolers fulfil the characteristics of early childhood development through the themes highlighted in this study, namely; (i) self-confidence; and (ii) ability to interpret emotions.  Socio emotional development reflects the learning that a child acquired. In this regard, socio emotional competence is evident when a child reaches the desired level of achievement. Good socio emotional development plays an important role in the development of preschooler.....

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Behavior problems among young children in early childhood education centers are found to be at a growing rate from the literature.  Behavioral problems if left untreated may lead to more severe outcomes for some children. Behavior problems pose by young children in the early childhood classroom interrupt with classroom instruction. Early Identification which directs to early intervention is an evident based method to treat children at-risk of behavioral issues. Early intervention prepares children at-risk by providing an effective positive behavior support that may reduce the option of special education referral. However problem behaviors in the early childhood classroom are remain under recognized or not widely addressed. Literature reports that, teachers due to their workload may delay the referral and when they are unable to handle the problem behaviors, removal will be the short-term solution. A pilot test was carried out on Genius Negara educators from Perak state.  Targeted nu.....

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Children start to gain concepts from an early age. They are particularly sensitive to what is happening in their close surroundings. As a result of their daily observations, they can create various conceptual information about the Earth, Sun, and Moon. It is thought that the participation of children in the education process is very important for this information to become basic. The aim of this study is to reveal the variation in knowledge levels about the concepts of the Earth, Sun, and Moon of students who do or do not take preschool education.  The research is qualitative, and it was conducted with a total of 40 students aged 6-7. In order to collect the data, we created and used a semi-structured interview form. With this form, students' information about the shapes, movements, colors, and dimensions of the Earth, Sun, and Moon were collected. In the analysis given, content analysis was used, and the answers given were expressed as percentage and frequency. As a result of this s.....

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Literature has identified varied internship models yet preparing early childhood pre-service teachers (ECPSTs) to confront the realities and challenges of learning-to-teach during internship remain scarcely examined. The qualitative single-case study sought to uncover ways to optimize ECPSTs? latent knowledge and skills given a limited time for internship. Findings revealed that the three ECPSTs learned to draw upon insights by reflecting on their daily teaching and learning experiences, relying on their own personal characteristics, forming a conference group among themselves and action-taking to address problems of practice during their internship. The processes of belonging, being and becoming implicate the re-imagination of internship programs to consider learning-to-teach as iterative, unpredictable and unstructured process.  ..

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