This research was conducted to identify factors that contribute to the students?performance in writing. Three research questions were formulated namely, what are the factors that hinder students? performance in writing, what are the factors that help students to write compositions in English, and what are the perceptions of students? towards writing compositions in English. The participants were fifteen (15) Form Three students of a selected private religious school in the district of Tanjung Malim, Perak. The students were selected based on preliminary observations, discussion with the teacher, analysis of previous examination results and pre-test. Participant observation, field notes, focus group interviews, questionnaires for both teacher and students, and content analysis were conducted for the purpose of data collection. Data collected from questionnaires was analysed using statistic software, SPSS 18.0, to obtain the mean and standard deviation of responses of the students and th.....

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Purpose of this case study is to explore the level of understanding of teachers in a secondary school in Gombak on the discipline management procedures based on the circulars issued out by the Ministry of Education starting from 1968 to 2010. Sampling for this study focuses on the procedure adapted for the enforcement of discipline by the four teachers who were directly involved in managing discipline in school. The study was done based on triangulation technique analysis of documents circulars relating to the management of discipline issued by the Ministry of Education, interviews, observation of the enforcement of disciplinary procedures and analysis of documents relating to the discipline management, and the finding was supported by the finding checklist of all teachers in the particular school. The findings revealed that only Head of Student’s Affairs who really mastered the contents of the circular relating to the discipline management. From the aspect of appropriateness of the .....

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The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate the use of Simulation Through Weblog (SMW) in learning the topic of Movement of Substances Across the Plasma Membrane on the students’ achievement and interest. This study involved 60 students from a residential school in Perak which were divided into two groups. The treated group learned the topic of Movement of Substances Across the Plasma Membrane through the SMW while the control group learned the topic by the common method. The instruments used in this study were the pre test, post test and questionnaires for interest. The hypothesis test involved the use of the ANCOVA test and the Pearson correlation test. Result showed that there was no significant differences (p = .117) in the mean of the post test score between the treated group and the control group. There was also no significant difference (p = .859) in the mean of the post test score between the male and female students in the treated group. Yet there was significant d.....

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The purposes of this study was to develop and to validate a model of metacognitive-based teaching and learning of mathematics and to analyze phases how to utilize student metacognitive in solving algebra problems. There are two phases in developing a model of metacognitive-based teaching and learning of mathematics. Phase 1 consists of four stages, namely: a) preliminary study, based on theoretical basis and previous studies; b) model planning, which consists of instrument planning and component of teaching and learning, and also a model book; c) realization; d) model validity, tryout, and refinement. Meanwhile, phase 2 covers the implementation of the developed model and the study into the prosedures of metacognitive treatment. The results show that the development of a model of metacognitive-based teaching and learning is valid, practical, and effective. If the average number of the metacognitive treatment in solving algebra problem namely awareness, cognitive strategy, planning, and.....

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This research is aimed to explain the elements of thinking from the Theory of Integrated Thought System 4K: perspective, elements of lessons, and values in the prose passage of Malay traditional literature. The Malay traditional prose passages / text studied are from Antologi Sehijau Warna Daun (Form 1), Antologi Seuntai Kata untuk Dirasa (Form 2), Antologi Anak Bumi Tercinta (Form 3), Antologi Anak Laut (Form4) and Antologi Kerusi (Form 5) which accumulate 20 articles. The researcher uses qualitative theoretical framework which is library research which analyses the texts from the extracts / articles. The research methodology which is carried out using the Theory of Integrated Thought System 4K which are spiritual thinking, wisdom thinking, scientific thinking and creative thinking. These thinking's are applied by the researcher in three aspects of discussion to achieve the purpose of the research which is to identify the elements of thinking in the Theory of Integrated Thought System.....

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There are two purposes of this study. The first purpose is to discover the types of attitudes fostered by the form four students of a secondary school in Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan towards learning English. The second purpose was to discover the existence of correlation between students' attitudes and their achievement in English. 164 form four students participated in this survey. A self-designed questionnaire was utilized to identify students' attitudes in learning English while their English achievement was based on their midyear examination results. The researcher personally administered the questionnaire to the respondents with the aid of form four English Language teachers in that school. The students' attitudes towards learning was divided into four attitudinal factors: (1) Form four students’ overall attitudes towards learning English, (2) Form four students' attitudes towards learning English per say, (3) Form four students’ attitudes towards their English teacher and (.....

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This study is conducted to construct and examine the usage of al-Amin’s Strategy (SPA) of Akhlak Lessons in bringing up the akhlak-consciousness of form three students in Narathiwat and Pattani provinces. Al-Amin’s Strategy (SPA) are designed based on the Quranic verses 21-34 chapter of Taha, which describes the stories on the values of honesty shown by Prophet Moses a.s (al-Amin) highlighting on the strategy model of learning and teaching aid, the concept of knowing Allah, mastering knowledge, self improvement and soul cleansing. Ideas from al-Amin’s Strategy (SPA) are referred from personality model and cognitive (Mohd. Daud Hamzah & Abd. Kadir Arifin, 2000) and concepts from al-Ghazali (1993) assimilated into the model for Instruction System of Dick & Carrey (2009). The research is conducted through reading the Quasi-Experiment Design by comparing the effectiveness between al-Amin’s Strategy (SPA) and Traditional teaching strategy (Strategi Pengajaran Traditional /SPT) the d.....

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This study aims to analyze the homological functors of some torsion free crystallographic groups, namely Bieberbach groups, with symmetric point group of order six. The polycyclic presentations for these groups are constructed based on their matrix representations given by Crystallographic, Algorithms, and Tables package, followed by checking their consistency. The homological functors which include the nonabelian tensor square, the G-trivial subgroup of the nonabelian tensor square, the central subgroup of the nonabelian tensor square, the nonabelian exterior square, and the Schur multiplier are determined by using the computational method for polycyclic groups. The structures of the nonabelian tensor squares are explored and the generalization of the homological functors of these groups are developed up to n dimension. The findings reveal that the nonabelian tensor squares and the nonabelian exterior squares of these groups are nonabelian while the rest of the homological functors ar.....

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The objectives of this study are to synthesize novel chitosan-hydroxyapatite composites doped with strontium, magnesium and zinc via in situ co-precipitation method, to investigate the bioactivity, cytotoxicity and antimicrobial properties of the materials. Physicochemical properties of the products obtained were analysed by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), differential thermal analysis (DTA), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX). The calcium release from the samples in simulated body fluid (SBF) were measured using atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS). The synthesized composite materials were subjected to bioactivity studies in SBF. In vitro cytotoxicity studies were performed on the novel composite materials obtained. Antimicrobial activity investigations against E. coli were carried out on all the composite samples. Characterization of the .....

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Hybrid organic-inorganic nanocomposite materials have emerged as one of the most potential alternative candidate to silicon as future optoelectronic material due to their unique optical and electrical characteristics. However, current fabrication process involving synthesizing the pre-made nanoparticles inside the polymer matrices is tediously complex, costly and time consuming. In this research, two approaches in preparing nanocomposite thin films, in situ hybridization and ex situ hybridization, were studied and the results were compared. In situ hybridization, a novel method, where the nanoparticles were grown directly in the Poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) mixed with stearic acid layers by exposing the films to either H2S or H2Se gas. Ex situ hybridization were done by mixing pre-made CdS or CdSe quantum dots into P3HT solution. For both approaches, depositions of thin films on the solid substrate were done by employing modified Langmuir-Blodgett technique. Studies on Langmuir layer .....

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