This study aims to test the validity and reliability of a Primary School Assessment Instrument for Year 4 students which cover the topic length involving word problems. This research is a developmental research. The product of this research is to develop instruments in subjective test items. The validation of assessment instrument is carried out to evaluate the validity of the assessment instrument. The validation is performed in the early stages of product development by three experts on Mathematics Education. The findings show that all experts agree that the content and quality of the item. The Cohen kappa value is 0.75. The finding indicates that the instrument has a high validity. A total of 20 Year 4 students from a rural primary school in the District of Marudi, Baram, Sarawak were involved in this study. From the analysis, it was found that the Cronbach alpha coefficient value is 0.857. This finding shows that the instrument has a high reliability coefficient..

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While research and implementation on the part of the industry has proven that the development of the right talent can improve productivity and provide competitive advantage, the higher education institution is still slow to act and seize the opportunity. Public universities in Malaysia are no exception in this regard and has only begun to design a more systematic talent development plan recently although the relevant circulars have been issued by the government since 2006. The case study aims to identify the problems that arise in the planning and implementation of talent development strategies at one of the public university, as well as highlighting recommendations to enable it to compete with other higher education institutions. The case study uses a qualitative approach such as interviews and analysis of official documents. Respondents consist of top management and staff involved with the implementation of the plan. The result of this study found that four (4) major obstacles to the.....

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Islam in Southeast Asia: Negotiating Modernity is a compilation of eight articles that offers new insights on the dynamic developments which have taken place within Muslim society in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. The authors of the chapters—academics and researchers with proven prowess in their respective fields—present articles that offer in-depth explanations of the developments in the subject of their choice. This book, according to the editor, Norshahril Saat, is an attempt to elucidate the impact of the developments of the Middle East on the Muslims in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore, especially in the sphere of contemporary socio-cultural factors and politics. The editor also informs readers that 'Southeast Asia' in the title is limited to the three countries considered to be the bastion of modest Islam in the region: Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. Issues related to the Muslims in Thailand, the Philippines and Burma are intentionally neglected. Also, discussions an.....

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The Malay Social Traits questionnaire has been developed to measure the core social traits that is practiced by Malay students in Public Universities for the formation of good manners and morals based on the core of Malay social traits introduced by Hashim Musa. However, of the 26 components of the social traits that were introduced, only four core social traits were focused on this study, namely the core of religion, the core of knowledge, the core of the education and the core of values. A survey was conducted on 500 Malay students in education field at five public universities. Of the 500 questionnaires distributed, only 268 were returned for analysis. The validity and reliability of the Malay Social Traits questionnaire was measured by the Rasch Measurement Model. The findings from the Winstep analysis show validity, item reliability index and respondent reliability index are relatively high. The implication of this study is to produce an instrument that can measure and identify th.....

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Analisis dan peramalan siri masa suhu adalah penting kerana perubahan suhu boleh membawa kesan serius kepada kesihatan. Kajian ini dijalankan bertujuan menganalisis dan meramal siri masa suhu di Jerantut, Pahang, Malaysia dengan menggunakan pendekatan kalut. Pemodelan kalut dibahagikan kepada dua tahap; pembinaan semula ruang fasa dan proses peramalan. Melalui pembinaan semula ruang fasa, data skalar satu matra dibina semula menjadi ruang fasa multimatra. Ruang fasa multimatra ini digunakan untuk mengesan kehadiran dinamik kalut melalui kaedah plot ruang fasa dan kaedah Cao. Keputusan menunjukkan bahawa siri masa yang diperhatikan bersifat kalut. Oleh itu, peramalan satu jam ke hadapan dibina melalui kaedah penghampiran purata setempat yang merupakan kaedah peramalan asas menggunakan pendekatan kalut. Nilai pekali korelasi yang diperoleh adalah 0.9443. Nilai yang menghampiri satu ini menunjukkan hasil peramalan yang bagus dengan merupakan refleksi bahawa siri masa yang diramal dan siri.....

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The overhead throw is crucial in netball which required qualities in the action to produce a fast and accurate throw. The main purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of augmented feedback in netball overheadnthrow among primary students. Ten participants were female students from SJK (T) Barathi, Malaysia who never done overhead training during Physical Education lesson. The training started with 12 repetitions and was raised to 20 repetitions 4 weeks later. The results showed that the percentage increased from 60% during the preparatory phase to 100% after augmented feedback. This pattern also similar during execution and follow through a phase which demonstrated an improvement of 50% compared to previous. In conclusion, the results demonstrated that augmentative feedback improved the performance of overhead throwing in netball  ..

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In recent years, the integration of Flipped Classroom and gamification in teaching and learning process became popular in order to provide flexibility in teaching and learning process. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate the content of GamyFlip-Pro module in teaching and learning a topic Programming for pre-university students. This module was developed based on Sidek and Jamaludin’s Model, Flipped Classroom Approach, and The Five Steps of Applying Gamification in Education by Huang and Soman. The development process involves two main process namely; development of module draft, experts’ reviews and implementation of content validity for the modules. Since the development of module draft complete, four subject matter experts will review the module draft. Then, module modification was done based on suggestion and recommendations by subject matter experts followed by the process of calculation content validity of the module. The percentage of experts’ agreement ob.....

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The role of poverty rate, medical diagnoses, napping and medication on sleep habits contribute to the academic performance of the children. The problem of sleeping student in class room is an underestimated problem in the Malaysia. The goal of our project was to produce a non-intrusive, portable and easy to use solution to detect whether or not a person was falling asleep while at classroom. The methods used in our system were sensors to detect whether or not the eye was open or closed and sensors to detect whether or not the head was dipped below a certain angle. This data was transmitted wirelessly where a microcontroller was used to determine whether or not to activate our alarm system. Our project was developed in C code and testing and verification were performed to validate the accuracy of the sensors and alarm decision system..

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The aim of this study is to assess the teaching practices of Malay Language teachers in implementing the elements of higher-order thinking skills in the teaching and learning of Malay Language using the Cognitive Research Trust (CoRT) Scale. Essentially, the scales comprises six devices, namely CoRT 1 (Breadth), CoRT 2 (Organization), CoRT 3 (Interaction), CoRT 4 (Critical Thinking), CoRT 5 (Information and Feeling), and CoRT 6 (Action) that are related to CoRT tests, namely PMI (Plus, Minus, Interesting), CAF (Consider All Factors), C&S (Consequence & Sequel), AGO (Aims, Goal, Objectives), FIP (First, Important, Priorities), APC (Alternatives, Possibilities, Choice), and OPV (Other People’s Views). This study used a qualitative approach using the observation method to elicit data from a study sample consisting of six Malay Language teachers from several schools with as sizeable indigenous or Orang Asli student population in the district of Batang Padang. A descriptive qualitative an.....

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This paper intended to discuss the requirement analysis regarding the implementation of Design and Technology (D&T) subject in which had been introduced back in 2017 for all Malaysian high school. D&T is a performance-based subject, which includes the implementation of teaching and learning as well as assessment based on the standards of achievement. Therefore, the focus of this paper is to delve deeper into the challenges that came with the implementation of D&T subject and the needs for the development of measuring instruments in which includes the mastering of content knowledge, skill mastery, and the ability to grasp the values in D&T subject. This study is a research of quantitative methods and data collected through surveys. Questionnaire was used as the main instrument in this study. The finding among 100 respondents shows that 90% of respondents expressed the biggest challenge that they have to face is the lack of experience and teaching a nonoption subject, low in knowledge an.....

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