Kajian ini dijalankan untuk melihat penggunaan komik terhadap kemahiran membaca dalam kalangan murid pemulihan tahun 2 dan 3 untuk mata pelajaran Bahasa Malaysia. Kajian tindakan ini telah dijalankan di dua buah sekolah di daerah Jempol (Negeri Sembilan) dan melibatkan lima belas orang responden. Objektif kajian ini ialah untuk meningkatan penggunaan komik dalam program pemulihan bacaan sebagai bahan bantu mengajar. Objektif kedua ialah menarik minat murid pemulihan untuk membaca, dan ketiga ialah untuk memperbaiki kemahiran membaca dalam kalangan murid pemulihan.Pengkaji memilih penyelidikan kualitatif untuk melaksanakan kajian tindakan ini. Instrumen kajian terdiri daripada analisis dokumen (keputusan peperiksaan Linus), pemerhatian (penggunaan komik dalam pengajaran dan pembelajaran), temubual (untuk mengetahui minat murid membaca komik) dan soal selidik (menggunakan skala Likert) Data dianalisis dengan menggunakan kaedah triangulasi dan perisian komputer ATLAS.ti. Kajia.....

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The paper focuses on establishing accounting standards for the awqaf system in order to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of its operation. Standardization could cut costs and reduce the risk of mismanagement so that services provided by awqaf strengthen development fundamentals. Thus, it is essential that Muslim countries adopt unified accounting standards to ensure accountability and transparency of various transactions related to awqaf. This will provide flexibility concerning allocations of awqaf endowments so that priority will be given to projects related to people’s basic needs. The proposed framework is designed based on the literature review to conceptualize the need of standardization of accounting for awqaf. The contribution of this paper is to add value to the literature of accounting for awqaf...

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Background: Low-back pain is one of the most common reasons for work stress, poor health, sickness, and reducing the quality of life. While obesity is a growing public health concern, it was proved that obesity is a risk factor for lowback pain. Whereas obese low-back pain people cannot avoid weight load on the spine in any exercise, but they can easily carry out the exercise in water. This study aimed to know the effect of aquatic exercise on quality of life among obese low-back pain people. Methods: A total of 39 women with BMI≥27 kg.m-2 who had non-specific chronic low-back pain were purposively selected for this study. They randomly assigned in two groups; exercising (N=19, 37.85±5.83 years with 32.97±4.84 kg. m-2) and control group (N=20, 40.8±5.25 years with 31.87±4.79 kg.m-2). The exercising group carried out the aquatic exercise, twice per week, 60 minutes per session, for 12 weeks. Quality of life was measured using the SF-36v2 questionnaire with eight domains; physical.....

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Critical and creative thinking skills are vital in new Malaysia curriculum starting 2011. These skills are advised to be integrated in all subjects in school. Hence, knowing the teachers thinking style can be an advantage as this can give the impression on how the students will be. This study was conducted to identify the tendency to which creative critical thinking style of Design and Technology (DT) teachers across Malaysia. A total of 367 teachers are involved and required to answer the instrument known as YPCreative-Critical Test which consist of 34 items. This instrument was develop using Google Form and been send out to the respondent through email, Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram and Instagram application to ease the teachers to respond online. The data then analyzed using descriptive statistic and inferential statistics. The finding from this study showed that nearly half of the DT teachers having balance thinking style. Creative thinking style has 35.4% of the total while critica.....

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High Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) is an important aspect of teaching and learning. An individual’s thinking can affect learning ability, learning speed and effectiveness of learning. The weakness in implementing HOTS is one of the reasons for a student not being creative in solving all the problems that arise. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of HOTS’s Self-Instructional Manual (SIM) in teaching and learning for assignment achievement among polytechnic students. This study uses a quantitative approach and the Quasi Experimental design - “Pretest-Posttest Non-equivalent Comparison Group Design” consisting of one Treatment Group (TG) and one Control Group (CG) involving 78 students at Polytechnic of Sultan Abdul Halim Muad'zam Shah. The assignment evaluation rubric was modified to assess the level of students’ assignment achievement. The findings showed that most of the students for TG and CG achieved good result in the individual pre-assignment. Addi.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti nilai pendidikan untuk remaja dalam pepatah petitih Negeri Sembilan. Pepatah petitih yang dikaji ialah pepatah petitih yang pernah ke udara dalam Radio Malaysia NEGERIfm sejak tahun 2011 hingga 2015. Dalam kajian ini, pengkaji menggunakan kaedah kepustakaan dan kajian teks. Asas dan dasar kepada kajian ini dirungkai melalui empat prinsip Teori Teksdealisme oleh Mana Sikana. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa pepatah petitih Radio Malaysia NEGERIfm didefinisikan sebagai susunan kata yang mengandungi pengajaran, teladan dan nasihat yang boleh dijadikan pedoman dalam kehidupan, disusun oleh orang yang bijak pandai secara berkias dan benar kandungannya. Isi kandungannya pula terdiri daripada adat resam, undang-undang adat, peraturan, perbilangan, bidalan dan pelbagai lagi. Bentuknya pula tidak lagi terikat iaitu ringkas, pendek namun ada juga yang berangkap panjang. Dapatan kajian juga menunjukkan keseluruhan 17 nilai murni pendidikan be.....

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This paper provides development of a virtual laboratorium for the subject of digital engineering. The virtual digital engineering laboratory based on mobile virtual reality is a finding that can be used for replacing a real laboratory. Using a virtual laboratory can be conducted a learning and teaching process at anytime and anywhere as long as it has an android device. This study applies a virtual laboratory to mobile virtual reality for a virtual digital engineering laboratory. The results of this study were functional application software to learn how to apply a virtual digital engineering laboratory through mobile virtual reality technology. A lot of components and circuits of logic gate can be simulated in this virtual laboratorium. This study presents a simple Android-based virtual tools for the visualization and investigation in real time of circuits of logic gates without signal disturbances. The package can be used as an educational tool in various lectures or homework to aid .....

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Government of Malaysia has enthusiastically supported the implementation of Industrialized Building System (IBS) that was early introduced in 1960’s. IBS is seen capable to ease the problem of delay that has been long haunting Malaysian construction industry. However, the issue of delay still exists even though IBS has been implemented in construction project and it is believed that there are other factors causing delay in IBS project. Thus, this paper aims to identify the factors of delay in IBS construction project through semi-structured interviews. Data on the study variables has been collected through interviews were conducted to explore the real-life construction situation in Malaysia. Factors of delay in IBS construction project are application of casting in-site by client, usage of dry mix cement, not fully implementation IBS method by clients in construction works, changes in design by client, delay in conforming the building design by client, delay in payment from client an.....

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The purpose of this study is to identify the e-courseware effectiveness and Special Education (SpeEdu.) Teacher perception in using Basic Living Skills (BLS) E-courseware prototypes, namely BLS (Augmented Reality Animation) & BLS (Static graphic). The study employed survey research design and experimental approaches. The survey design approach was conducted in identifying the usability of theprototype of Basic Living Skills e-courseware among Special education (SpeEdu) Teachers and for the experimental design approach was carried out to identify the ASD’s achievements between Basic Living Skills E-courseware (Augmented Reality Animation) & Basic Living Skills (Static graphic) for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) students master in basic living skills. A total of five (5) practising SpeEdu teachers had participated in this study, and there was 4 total number of children involved in the study. The study used a pre-post experimental research design. The participating in-service teachers .....

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The research was conducted to develop an Environmental Education Model and to identify the level of awareness, knowledge, attitude and skill of primary school pupils in Malaysia towards the environment using the model. The research was conducted through a survey using a questionnaire. The sample was randomly selected, involving 1000 pupils of Year 5 from Peninsular Malaysia divided into four zones, north zone (Kedah), east zone (Kelantan), west zone (Kuala Lumpur) and south zone (Melaka). The findings showed that the level of awareness, knowledge, attitude and skill of pupil were at a high level. The model had been developed by looking at direct impact testing through Evaluation Assessment Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) which suggested that awareness and skill factors were factors that significantly influenced pupils’ attitudes toward environmental education. Both relationships were positive. However, the relationship between knowledge and attitude was not significant. The findin.....

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