Issues on college students spending behaviour have been studied numerous times due to improper use of education funds. Various studies examined determinant factors for this misbehaviour in order to understand, identify and recommend ways to educate these future generations. Some documented relationships between financial behaviours and financial literacy, money beliefs and socialization agents. This study walks the same path but focuses on spending behaviour rather than financial behaviour and examines its association with determinant factors by means segmentation analysis. The aim of the study is to profile Sultan Idris Education University undergraduates’ according to their spending using a decision tree analysis procedure called Chisquared Automatic Interaction Detector (CHAID). CHAID generates predictive tree models by segmenting based on predictor variables which include demographic characteristics, program of study related traits and funding aspects that were utilized to profil.....

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Kajian  ini  dijalankan  untuk  meneliti  aspek  kefahaman  pengamal  di  agensi  agama  negeri tentang  elemen  yang  terdapat  dalam  Maqasid  Shariah  dan  pengaplikasiannya  terutamanya  ketika  sesi  kaunseling.  Kajian  ini  juga  adalah  untuk  mengenal  pasti  maklum  balas  dan  halangan  yang  terdapat  dalam  proses  perlaksanaan  aplikasi  tersebut.  Kajian  ini  berbentuk  pendekatan kualitatif dengan menggunakan reka bentuk kajian kes. Kaedah pengumpulan data kajian  menggunakan protokol temu bual separa struktur dan pemerhatian. Seramai 13 peserta terdiri daripada  pengamal di agensi  jabatan agama negeri dan klien  yang terlibat dalam sesi kaunseling.  Data   kajian  dipungut  daripada  tiga  pemerhatian  sesi  kaunseling.  Data  dianalisis menggunakan  Model 3C  Licthman  yang melibatkan proses pengekodan, pengkategorian dan pembentukan konsep.  Analisis data menjelaskan aplikasi elemen Maqasid Sh.....

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Many double auction frameworks have been proposed for cloud service negotiations [1]. However, the frameworks are not able to accommodate both the heterogeneous cloud services and multi-attributes negotiation simultaneously. Therefore, this paper proposed a double-auction framework to accommodate heterogeneous cloud services and multi-attributes negotiation. The study postulated four activities namely literature review, cloud service marketplace investigation, data formulation and double auction-based negotiation framework development. The market requirements, auction requirements and two new mechanisms of a double auction framework have been proposed  ..

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Kajian   ini   dijalankan   untuk   menilai   pelaksanaan   mata   pelajaran   Teknologi  Kejuruteraan  (TK),   Lukisan  Kejuruteraan   (LK)  dan  Reka  Cipta  (RC)  daripada dimensi   input,  proses  dan  produk  menggunakan  model  CIPP  sebagai  kerangka konseptual kajian. Teori  penilaian Taba, Stake dan Hammond serta model Finch dan Crunkilton,  Kirkpatrick  dan  Stenhouse   dijadikan  panduan  untuk  memilih  konstruk kajian   iaitu   kurikulum,   prasarana,   pengetahuan    dan   kemahiran   guru,   kesediaan pelajar, peranan pentadbir, proses pelaksanaan, proses  pemantauan, proses pengajaran dan  pembelajaran  serta  kompetensi  pelajar.  Reka  bentuk  kajian   ini  adalah  penilaian program. Pensampelan rawak berstrata digunakan untuk memilih 712 responden  dari 137  buah  Sekolah  Menengah  Harian  yang  terdiri  daripada  159  pentadbir,  176  guru dan   377  pelajar.  Instr.....

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The younger generation has not yet realised the importance of financial literacy and most of them are materialistic. An integration of technology into teaching financial literacy can promote students’ learning interest. The aim of this study is to develop a financial literacy cybergogy model to promote human values, practices and accountability among secondary school students. This study employed survey design and consisted of two stages: 1. develop the questionnaire; 2. develop and examine the construct of the model. The confirmatory factor analysis measurement model 1 with four latent variables, accountability, decision making, human value and practices was constructed with 24 items. The FLC measurement model 1 did not meet threshold, a revision was needed. The revised FLC measurement model 2 presented Chi-square/df=2.186, GFI=.936, AGFI=.903, CFI=.900, RMSEA =.060, and all the values fitted within the acceptable value. This indicated an acceptable model fit. After producing a good.....

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Recent statistic shows that 525,832 children are registered as KAFA students in Malaysia. This proves that KAFA School under the supervision of JAKIM has gained the trust of Muslim parents to send their children to learn about Islam in their early childhood. However, a large number of them are also at risk of obtaining inaccurate information about Islam if the sources of references do not provide the authentic information about Islam. The purpose of this study is to identify the authenticity of the Prophetic traditions (had?ths) that are referred to in the KAFA Worship Textbook used by the students. This study is a qualitative study using the method of takhrij of had?th (had?th verification) in which the had?ths are examined and evaluated for their validity based on the comments of the scholars on its chain of narrators and its texts. This study analyzed three had?ths used in the entire textbook of worship subjects and one of them was found to be a weak narration. This study recommends.....

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Reading comprehension is one of the important elements in reading skills. Through reading comprehension, students will be able to know the meaning and gain the main information from the reading materials. An effective reading strategy will be a better way to help students understand more about reading. Meanwhile, internet technology is widely used in the education field to promote learning that occurs in the flipped model. This study presents a practical teaching strategy to integrate the SQ3R reading strategy with the help of technology under a new teaching model. Literature reviews on reading comprehension, SQ3R strategy and flipped classroom model are also presented in this paper. This study will employ quantitative approach using surveys technique. Total of 118 year four students from three different primary school in Klang district will be involved in this survey research. A questionnaire and structured interview will be carried out to examine the students’ perception toward th.....

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Rainfall data are the most significant values in hydrology and climatology modelling. However, the datasets are prone to missing values due to various issues. This study aspires to impute the rainfall missing values by using various imputation method such as Replace by Mean, Nearest Neighbor, Random Forest, Non-linear Interactive Partial Least-Square (NIPALS) and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Daily rainfall datasets from 48 rainfall stations across east-coast Peninsular Malaysia were used in this study. The dataset were then fed into Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) model. The performance of abovementioned methods were evaluated using Root Mean Square Method (RMSE), Mean Absolute Error (MAE) and Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency Coefficient (CE). The experimental results showed that RF coupled with MLR (RF-MLR) approach was attained as more fitting for satisfying the missing data in east-coast Peninsular Malaysia.  ..

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The healthcare industry is shifting towards customer-focused similar to other service industries. The healthcare service providers and theorists have developed various measurement tools of customer experience (CE) to sustain the business. However, there are still unresolved issues related to CE measurement tools in the healthcare context need to be addressed. First, CE measurement tools still fail to capture the customers’ journey towards healthcare service experiences truly. Second, the relevant variables representing each phase of CE, as well as their interrelationships, have rarely been explored and examined in the healthcare service industry. Thus, this research aims to develop and validate a CE measurement model by considering the relevant variables by representing three phases of customers’ journey towards healthcare service delivery, namely cognitive, affective, and behaviour responses (CAB-CE). This research was conducted at Malaysian public hospitals. The customers who exp.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji kesan penggunaan Teknologi Maklumat dan Komunikasi (ICT) terhadap pelajar dalam proses pembelajaran dan pemudahcaraan (PdPc) subjek pertanian terhadap pengetahuan, motivasi dan interaksi mereka. Pendekatan kuantitatif dan kualitatif dengan menggunakan soal selidik dan temu bual telah digunakan dalam kajian ini. Kajian ini melibatkan 47 orang pelajar Tingkatan Empat aliran pertanian di empat buah sekolah menengah kebangsaan di daerah Kubang Pasu. Data dianalisis dengan analisis statistik deskriptif dan ujian-t. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa pemilikan komputer memberi kesan yang signifikan kepada motivasi dan interaksi pelajar (p..

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