Sport coaches play a crucial role in contributing to individual and team performance. Unlike the  scientific study of athlete development,  scant attention has been paid to the intricacies of coach  development across the full spectrum of coaching levels. In the current research the defining stage  development characteristics of A, B and C license soccer (hereafter referred to as football)  coaches in Australia and Malaysia, were interviewed  about their development journey, especially  dating back to their first involvement in football through to the present.   Methods This research was guided by evolved grounded theory (EGT), (Strauss & Corbin, 1990) principles.  Evolved grounded theory was used and is well suited to developing an understanding of the  complexities of sport coaching development (Pellegrino, Chudowsky, & Glaser, 2001). Furthermore,  EGT is inherently adaptable and is data driven but with the capacity to consider relevant research  with a view .....

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Learning in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) necessitates learners to be capable of self-regulating their learning in order to oversee and adapt their behaviour and actions in certain learning settings. Studies have highlighted that learners who have good control of self-regulation in their learning, either formal or informal learning contexts, utilise more competent learning strategies in online learning context. Nevertheless, MOOCs attract a diverse range of learners, each with different experience and satisfaction. The aim of this study is to examine the role of self-regulated learning (SRL) and its components (time management, planning, self-evaluation, and help-seeking) on learners’ satisfaction in MOOC. Data were collected from 281 learners of a Malaysia MOOC namely Asas Keusahawanan (Introduction to Entrepreneurship), in the second semester of the Malaysian universities academic calendar. A cross-sectional web-based survey was applied and a Partial Least Square (PLS) approa.....

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The activities of urban farming in Southeast Asia are still very limited and dispersed. In order to give valuable insights in relation to urban farming activities in Southeast Asia and to support researchers, there is a need to know in details the available options and gaps in this research direction. Thus, this study is conducted using a structured literature review to provide a coherent taxonomy and future research direction. This research focuses on the following subject matters: urban farming activities, technology application for urban farming and their use in the urban farms and smallholder farming activities in Southeast Asia. The process of reviewing literatures started with selecting the three major digital databases, namely, ScienceDirect, Web of Science, and Scopus. The study selection process consists of research into literature sources, followed by three iterations of screening and filtering, excluded duplicate articles, screening the titles and abstracts and reading of th.....

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This paper focuses on the theory and concept of Professional Learning Community (PLC/KPP) and its strategies on students’ achievement in public university and institutes of teacher education. Professional Learning Community has specific strategies to improve student achievement. PLC refers to the education institution’s culture that encourages continuous learning among educators in their institutions. The teaching culture is not considered as an individual’s job but it is more about obtaining criticism and performing improvements. Lecturers play an important role in ensuring that their students’ future is brighter and more outstanding. Thus, the effective strategies are: to emphasise a lecturer’s skills and knowledge, build quality relationships, arrange a very focused program, mobilise existing resources, and develop a shared leadership. Methodology: The understanding of PLC concepts and all related theories is derived from in-depth reading through primary sources, which are.....

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This paper presents a study that analyzes hospitalized pediatric cancer patients' routines and activities to inform the game design to be used for the development of a digital game to empower them. This study focuses on discovering patients' experiences while being hospitalized. The patients' activities throughout their hospital stay are recorded through non-participatory observations strategy and their experiences inward are gathered through interview sessions with their parents or guardians who have been nursing them during their entire stay in the hospital. The findings suggest that the patients' experiences are divided into two main themes, namely positive and negative affect. These two themes are depending on the patients' treatment phases: before, during and after receiving medical treatments. These findings are crucial to being translated into design principles to inform game design. It is important to ensure that the digital game for pediatric cancer patients is designed proper.....

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Kajian   ini   dijalankan   bertujuan   untuk   menganalisis   novel   Melayu   terpilih   dari perspektif  Persejarahan  Baharu.  Bagi  mencapai  tujuan  itu,  tiga  objektif  ditetapkan iaitu,   mengenalpasti  dan  menganalisis  hubungan  kait  unsur  sejarah  baharu  dengan sejarah  lama   jungkir  balik  sejarah,  pemaknaan  baharu,  menganalisis  hubung  kait unsur  sejarah  baharu   dengan  ideologi  pengarang  serta  menjelaskan  sisipan  elemen mimikri  dalam  novel  yang   dikaji.  Kajian  ini  adalah  sebuah  kajian  kepustakaan. Sumber utama  data  kajian  ialah  novel   `1515`  oleh  Faisal  Tehrani  (2003)  dan  novel `Luka Nering` karya Malim Ghozali PK (2014). Data dianalisis menggunakan kaedah analisis  kandungan   dan  dibincangkan  secara  deskriptif  berpandukan  empat  prinsip Persejarahan Baharu.  Berdasarkan analisis yang dilakukan, kajian ini mendapati unsur sejarah.....

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This study highlights the importance of text-reader factors in prose reading. The study was carried out to identify the text-reader factors involved in enhancing reading comprehension. A qualitative research methodology was employed involving individual in-depth interview sessions with six average ability Form Two students from a secondary school. The interviews were conducted to gauge their views on the influence of text-reader factors in text comprehension. The interview questions centered on the literature textbook currently used in school and also the short story “Cheat” by Allan Baillie included in the book. Thematic analysis was carried out on the data collected. The findings show that text-reader factors affect text comprehension. The factors include pictures, font, the author, glossary, text organization, cover of the book and the length of the literary prose forms. The reader factors are related to the students’ life background, interest, and motivation in reading. The s.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti serta membandingkan alam percintaan dan alam  rumah   tangga  serta  menganalisis  aspek  pengukuhan  percintaan  dan  kegagalan rumah tangga dalam novel  terpilih Tamil dan Melayu. Kajian ini adalah sebuah kajian kepustakaan  yang  menggunakan  kaedah   analisis  kandungan  dan  analisis  diskriptif. Analisis dan  perbincangan  dibuat  berpandukan   sembilan  prinsip teori Kalaviyal  dan lima  prinsip  teori  Karpiyal.  Dapatan  kajian   menunjukkan  terdapat  tiga  aspek  alam rumah  tangga  dalam  novel  Tamil  dan  lima  dalam   novel  Melayu,  manakala  tujuh aspek   alam   percintaan   dalam   kedua-dua   buah   novel    tersebut.   Dalam   sudut perbandingan  pula,  terdapat  persamaan  dalam  enam  aspek  alam   percintaan  dalam kedua-dua novel manakala bagi aspek alam rumah tangga pula terdapat dua perbezaan  dalam novel  Tamil dan empat  perbeza.....

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Kajian buli di Malaysia kebanyakannya menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif sebagai reka bentuk kajian. Namun, kaedah ini dilihat tidak mampu memberikan kefahaman mendalam berhubung permasalahan tersebut. Justeru, pendekatan kualitatif dijangka dapat memberikan penjelasan tentang fenomena buli secara lebih menyeluruh. Antara reka bentuk kualitatif yang boleh digunakan adalah constructivist grounded theory (CGT) yang diperkenalkan oleh Charmaz (2006). Bagi memperlihatkan pengaplikasian CGT dalam kajian buli, kertas kerja ini akan menghuraikan pengalaman Pengkaji melaksanakannya secara langkah demi langkah. Diharapkan agar perkongsian ini memberi inspirasi kepada para pengkaji untuk menerapkan pendekatan CGT dalam kajian buli mereka...

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Kajian  ini  bertujuan  meneroka  proses  perkembangan  psikologi  pelajar  Pendidikan Moral   dengan  menggunakan  teknik  pembikinan  filem  pendek  sebagai  rangsangan pengajaran dan  pembelajaran Pendidikan Moral. Kajian kualitatif ini dijalankan dalam reka  bentuk  kajian   tindakan.  Model  kajian  tindakan  Zuber-Skerrit  telah  digunakan untuk   melihat   proses     perkembangan   psikologi   dari   aspek   sensitiviti   moral, pertimbangan moral dan motivasi  moral murid-murid Pendidikan Moral tingkatan 4. Murid-murid  terlibat  dalam  proses  pembikinan   filem  pendek  iaitu  membuat  papan cerita,  berlakon,  menonton  dan  menganalisis  filem.   Daripada  tiga  kelas  pengajaran yang mempunyai 120 orang murid hanya seramai 18 orang murid telah  dipilih sebagai peserta   kajian   untuk   mengumpul   data   dengan   menggunakan   teknik   temu    bual, pemerhatian, catatan jurnal d.....

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