Artikel ini menerangkan pembangunkan Perisian Multimedia Elektrokimia (PME) yang telah direka bentuk berdasarkan sukatan mata pelajaran kimia tingkatan 4 dalam topik elektrokimia. Metodologi pembangunan PME adalah berasaskan model reka bentuk Alessi dan Trollip (2001). Pembangunan PME dilakukan secara sistematik berasaskan teori-teori pembelajaran yang merangkumi teori behaviorisme, kognitif dan konstruktivisme. Tutorial telah digunakan sebagai pendekatan pedagogi utama, selain latih tubi dan simulasi. Perisian pengarangan Authorware 6.5 digunakan sebagai pelantar utama, manakala Macromedia Flash 5 digunakan untuk membina elemen-elemen animasi. Terdapat dua ujian yang dijalankan bagi menilai PME. Ujian peringkat pertama melibatkan pengedaran soal selidik di kalangan guru-guru kimia. Analisis ujian ini mendapati responden memberi penilaian yang positif terhadap isi kandungan, reka bentuk interaksi, reka bentuk persembahan dan reka bentuk informasi PME. Manakala ujian peringkat kedua mel.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji kesan penggunaan teknik peer instruction dengan pendekatan kelas flipped terhadap pencapaian pemahaman konsep sejarah dalam kalangan murid Tingkatan Empat. Kajian ini merupakan kajian eksperimen dengan reka bentuk faktorial 2 X 2 yang melibatkan seramai 122 orang murid dari dua buah sekolah yang dikategorikan sebagai kumpulan eksperimen dan kumpulan kawalan. Ujian pencapaian pemahaman konsep sejarah yang dibina sendiri oleh pengkaji bagi topik Perkembangan di Eropah merupakan instrumen kajian ini yang telah disahkan oleh pakar penilai dan mempunyai nilai kebolehpercayaan, indeks kesukaran dan diskriminasi yang baik. Data kajian ini dianalisis secara deskriptif dan inferensi dengan menggunakan perisian IBM SPSS Statistics. Analisis inferensi yang digunakan adalah ujian-t Sampel Tak Bersandar dan ujian ANOVA Dua Hala. Dapatan kajian ini menunjukkan bahawa murid-murid dalam kumpulan eksperimen (pendekatan flipped dengan teknik peer instruction) dapat me.....

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Gamification of education is new field in education that is attracting researchers who are passionate on education. However, no much researches were made to assess the users’ perception on its application in enhancing students understanding of certain subjects such as Environmental Education. This article is aimed at assessing the students’ attitude on the application of eeGamification in environmental education. The method employed was survey method. A structured questionnaire was used and a total of 372 respondents were used in the study. The survey employed descriptive statistics analysis to measure the level of students’ attitude towards eeGamification. The result indicates that students have positive attitude towards gamification. This shows that students accept the idea of gamification in improving students’ understanding of Environmental Education...

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The study of this theory aims to find out how animation as multimedia-based learning media can help the learning process undertaken by teachers and learners, and help students understand the visualization provided by the teacher. The rapid development of technology makes technology become one of the necessities that must be possessed by humans to help solve a problem encountered. One of the technological developments that are currently emerging technology-shaped gadgets. Lifestyle development of people who prefer practicality began to bring gadgets. There are new challenges for teachers from the rapid development of the world of informatics technology and electronic devices such as gadgets, that is how teachers can utilize gadgets to optimize learning in the classroom. Because like or dislike, our students are big in the digital age, so the teachers as much as possible adjust to the development of technology...

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Job Satisfaction is a multi dimensional phenomenon as it is related to multiple factors, those which have certain profound impact upon the teacher community. The foremost are the certain glaring factors those which strongly bracketed with the phenomenon of job satisfaction categorically which includes: work, pay , promotion supervision co workers and work environment.The teacher’s demography has a strong bond with the concerned teacher who is satisfies or not due to the same...

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In general, this study aims to evaluate the implementation of the Bachelor's Degree in Islamic Education Teachers Programme (IETP) in providing Islamic Education Teachers (IET) in schools in Malaysia. Assessment is based on Kirkpatrick's evaluation model which consists of four levels:reaction, learning, behavior, and result. The discussion focuses on four levels of assessment: reaction involving satisfaction, learning to involve knowledge, skills, and attitudes, behaviour that involve individual performance and result involving organizational performance. Hence, this study is conducted with the aim of identifying the extent to which the IETP operated at public universities and teacher education institutes towards producing competent and effective IET..

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Malaysia is one of the countries which is rich in its flora and fauna bio-diversity. Malaysian forest products have been exploited since ancient times for its high economic values. One of these high economic value products is agarwood. Thymelaeacea is one medium-size family tree where it is estimated to consist of 50 genera and 900 species of which many can be found in Africa, Australia and Asia. Most species of Aquilaria in Thymelaeaceae family produced agarwood or ‘gaharu’. Aquilaria malaccensis is a species of the highest recorded number of planting by karas tree farmers and known as the primary producer of agarwood in Malaysia. Agarwood is non timber forest product it is one of the precious wood on earth and prized for its rich and wonderful fragrance. Agarwood is formed due to the phathological process as respond to fungal infection or chemically stimulated. This paper seek to understand in general the type of karas trees species most favoured by karas farmers and to know what.....

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In line with the advance in technology and the increasing demands for better services, the market for credit card has shown tremendous growth performance,. The genuine usage of credit card in the form of convenience has diverged to associate with overspending, irresponsibility, revolving liability and bankruptcy. This infers that the possession of credit cards has brought upon a change in consumers’ usage behaviors. Thus, this study aims to determine the academicians’ credit card usage behaviors in a private tertiary institution in Malaysia. The dependent variable is usage behavior and the independent variables that serve as attributes are personal attitude, spending and repayment patterns. Meanwhile, the moderating variable in this study is gender. Data obtained via questionnaire were keyed into Statistical Packages for Social Science (SPSS) version 22.0 to generate descriptive statistics such as the demographic profile of respondents and inferential analysis such as independent s.....

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Due to differences in opinions and goals, disagreement within the board of directors is common in corporate world. Conflicts in the boardrooms can occur not just between groups of shareholders trying to acquire controlling interest in a company, but also between executive and non-executive directors who represent different stakeholders. Reputation damaging effects model predicts that boardroom tussle events have negative influence on stock returns, whilst the concentration of ownership and control that followed after the tussles can reduce agency problem and positively influence stock returns. This research includes all the 30 events of boardroom tussles involving 10 public listed companies over the period from year 2014 to year 2017 that are announced in Bursa Malaysia website as the sample. This research applies paired-sample compare means ttest method with hypothesized mean difference value of zero to determine whether cumulative abnormal return (CAR) is significant over various eve.....

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The uncertain knowledge on level of wellbeing among older adults has attracted an increasing number of public, political and scientific attentions. Wellbeing has been described as a state of equilibrium or balance that can be affected by life events or challenges. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between socially productive activities and subjective wellbeing among rural elderly in Perak. A descriptive research methodology was adopted for this research. A broad range of productive factors (such as voluntarism and paid work) and measures of wellbeing (such as self-rated health and life satisfaction) shall be analysing in t-test and Pearson correlation analysis. Information needed are obtained sing a cross-sectional design method across rural districts in Perak. Questionnaires survey was distributed to 480 older adults age from 50 t0 75+. This paper found out that there are no significant different between paid work and self-rated health and life satisfaction,.....

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