Kajian ini bertujuan meneroka pemikiran visual pelajar Biologi terhadap konsep abstrak osmosis. Antara objektif khusus kajian ini adalah untuk mengenalpasti pola pemikiran visual pelajar apabila mereka melihat dan membaca konsep abstrak tersebut. Seramai 15 orang responden dipilih dari dua buah sekolah dengan menggunakan persampelan stratifikasi bertujuan. Pelajar ini mewakili kumpulan yang berpencapaian tinggi, sederhana dan rendah. Instrumen yang digunakan untuk mengumpul data adalah tugasan osmosis dan protokol temu bual semi berstruktur. Setelah data dianalisis secara deskriptif, kajian mendapati responden telah menunjukkan suatu pola pemikiran visual yang ketara. Secara keseluruhannya, 73% responden memaparkan visual dengan reka bentuk eksperimental manakala 27% responden melakarkan visual dengan reka bentuk ilustrasi. 40% responden yang berpencapaian tinggi mempunyai visual jenis holistik. 60% hingga 80% responden yang berpencapaian sederhana dan rendah pula mempunyai visual jeni.....

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Reinforcement of natural rubber was achieved using multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) dispersed with non-ionic, polymeric-based surfactant. MWCNTs were first dispersed in aqueous solution of INUTEC driven by sonication and then mixed with natural rubber latex. From these mixtures MWCNTs with natural rubber were prepared by casting method. The morphology of the reinforced latex films was investigated by FESEM and AFM. When applying adequate preparation conditions, MWCNTs were well dispersed and homogeneously incorporated in the natural rubber matrix. Mechanical and electrical test results showed an increase in the tensile strength and conductivity than to pure natural rubber. The nanocomposites possess the good tensile strength even without extensive purification on the nanomaterials produced and without any pretreatment on the natural rubber used. The approach presented can be adapted to other MWCNTs/polymer latex systems...

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The objective of this paper is to study the relationship between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and the Big Five of the youths in National Youth Skill Training Institute (IKBN) Miri, Sarawak. This survey involved a sampling of two hundred and ninety one youths who are currently learning at the IKBN Miri. The data was gathered through a self-report survey method using a questionnaire instrument. A newly developed instrument; Malaysian Youth Emotional Intelligence Test (MYEIT) is used to measure EI whereas Big Five Inventory (BFI) is used to measure the Big Five. Conscientiousness and Agreeableness strongly correlates with EI, followed by Extraversion, Openness and Neuroticism. Regression analyses further confirm that EI measured by MYEIT is overlap with the higher–order personality dimensions...

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Proses transformasi dalam bidang pendidikan memerlukan peralihan yang drastik daripada pengajaran dan pembelajaran bercorak konvensional kepada berteknologi tinggi, iaitu penggunaan multimedia. Transformasi ini telah dicetuskan oleh unsur inovasi dan kreatif dalam penerokaan ilmu pengetahuan yang lebih dinamik. Justeru, penyelidikan ini dilakukan untuk mengkaji hubungan sikap kesukaan dengan keyakinan belia universiti terhadap penggunaan multimedia dalam kursus-kursus pendidikan Bahasa Melayu, selain mengenal pasti faktor-faktornya. Penyelidikan ini membabitkan 500 orang belia universiti; Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris dan Universiti Putra Malaysia. Ini membabitkan 250 orang belia universiti bagi setiap universiti telah dipilih sebagai responden kajian. Pemilihan sampel dibuat secara rawak bertujuan untuk meninjau sikap kesukaan dan keyakinan belia universiti terhadap terhadap penggunaan multimedia dalam kursus-kursus pendidikan Bahasa Melayu. Kaedah tinjauan berasaskan soal selidi.....

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Classification tree models are known for their simplicity and efficiency when dealing with domains contain large number of variables and cases. However, a small perturbation in the data, can lead to a very different tree. We introduce a method for measuring similarity between binary classification trees based on the similarity between the classification paths. The trees to be compared are represented in the form of matrices whose entries are in the interval [0,1]. Overlap similarity measure is used to measure the similarity between each pair of path in two trees, and the best matching paths between trees are used to calculate the similarity measure. This method has advantage to measure trees that possess the same structure and leaf nodes but different internal node...

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Purpose - It is argued that the approaches to learning of students undergoing teacher training are likely to be related to their teaching and learning environment, especially as they move from a more regimented, structured learning environment in school to a tertiary learning environment that encourages more independent thinking and perhaps questions ideas. Therefore, this investigation has an overall goal to use the unique approaches to learning (surface and deep approaches) of students in a teacher preparation program to address the needs of this particular group of students during their teacher education. The study examines the associations between scores on student-teachers’ approaches to learning, their academic performance and teaching efficacy. Methodology – The approach to learning instrument used was the Bahasa Melayu R-SPQ-2F and the teaching efficacy was collected through the Bahasa Melayu Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES). The sample for this study was a total .....

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There is widespread concern in Malaysia about the quality of learning experienced by students, and the approach to learning they develop as a consequence. The approach is generally marked by memorization of information as isolated facts and does not promote understanding or long-term retention of knowledge and information. Despite a number of large-scale, centrally-driven reform efforts to change the status quo, they have for the most part met with little success. Based on the data collected as part of a nation-wide study to investigate the way teachers make pedagogical decisions, this paper argues that one major challenge to transform students‟ approach to learning is changing the way teachers think about teaching which past reform efforts have largely ignored. The data suggest that the teachers studied mainly see teaching as transmitting information from teacher to the student. In this view of teaching they hold, they focus their attention on the differences between students to exp.....

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Tamu telah wujud di Sabah sebelum kedatangan penjajah. Ketika zaman penjajahan itu, tamu adalah tempat pertemuan penting bagi masyarakat tempatan untuk mendapat barangan keperluan harian mereka. Selari dengan kepesatan pembangunan semasa, peranan tamu dilihat lebih dari tempat pertemuan penduduk untuk mendapatkan barangan dan pelaksanaannya juga dilihat telah berubah. Justeru itu, artikel ini bertujuan untuk mengenalpasti isu-isu yang berkaitan dengan pembangunan dan prospek tamu dalam pembangunan luar bandar di negeri Sabah. Selain mengenal pasti isu yang wujud di tamu luar bandar, isu utama kajian ini adalah sejauh manakah tamu luar bandar memainkan peranan sebagai penggerak kepada pembangunan luar bandar. Perbincangan dalam artikel ini banyak berdasarkan kepada temu bual secara mendalam, pemerhatian di lapangan dan data sekunder yang diperoleh daripada jabatan kerajaan, jurnal, dan buku ilmiah. Hasil dapatan kajian mendapati bahawa terdapat pelbagai isu tempatan yang berkait dengan .....

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Since gaining independence in 1957, the government of Malaysia has introduced various programmes to improve the quality of life of the Orang Asli (aboriginal people). The Ministry of Education, for example, is committed in providing education for all including the children of Orang Asli. However, whilst the number of Orang Asli children enrolled in primary and secondary schools has increased significantly over the last decade, the dropout rate among them is still high. This has been attributed to factors such as culture, school location, poverty, pedagogy and many more. The discussion in this article is drawn upon findings from fieldwork study at an Orang Asli village in Johor, Malaysia. This article discusses efforts in raising educational attainment of the Orang Asli through the implementation of the Clusters of Excellence Policy. In so doing it highlights the achievement of the policy and issues surrounding its implementation at the site...

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Information technology in schools aggressively emerged in the late 1990s to reinvent the teaching and learning process in Malaysia. Schools no longer existed merely for the purposes of traditional teaching and learning but were needed to enhance their knowledge activities so as to be able to cope with the rapid changes that were taking place. The objectives of this study are to determine the contribution of knowledge contextual factors to the knowledge activities, with particular reference to the emergence of information technologies in schools, and to evaluate progress with respect to knowledge activities in school education. The research is designed around questionnaires based on a knowledge-management conceptual framework administered to random samples of teachers in information technology facilitated. schools and regular schools so as to be able to make comparisons.Interestingly the fi ndings show that the information technology under the “ICT Facilitated school” is not a key f.....

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