Kajian ini bertujuan menguji pengaruh kecerdasan emosi dan personaliti terhadap pencapaian akademik pelajar sekolah menengah. Kecerdasan emosi terdiri daripada lima konstruk iaitu kesedaran kendiri, pengurusan kendiri, motivasi, empati dan kemahiran sosial. Faktor personaliti pula terdiri daripada ekstrovert, kerisauan, pemikiran tegas, tidak bergantung dan kawalan kendiri. Faktor demografi dalam kajian ini terdiri daripada jantina dan lokasi sekolah. Kajian ini menggunakan soal selidik kecerdasan emosi yang diubah suai dan dibina sendiri oleh pengkaji berdasarkan teori Goleman. Soal selidik personaliti menggunakan "The Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (J 6FP) " oleh Cattell. Subjek kajian ini seramai 435 pelajar tingkatan empat iaitu 210 lelaki dan 225 perempuan. Data kajian dianalisis menggunakan ujian korelasi Pearson, ujian regrasi berganda (stepwise), MANOVA dan ujian-t. Keputusan kajian menunjukkan terdapat hubungan yang signifikan antara kecerdasan emosi dan konstruk kec.....

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Tujuan penyelidikan ini adalah untuk melihat perhubungan dan peramalan kecerdasan emosi terhadap prestasi pencapaian dalam kalangan guru-guru pelatih Program Ijazah Sarjana Muda Perguruan (PISMP) Ambilan Januari 2008 di Institut Pendidikan Guru (IPG) di Malaysia. Instrumen pengukuran kecerdasan emosi yang digunakan ialah BarOn Emotional Quotient Inventory (BarOn EQ-i). Seramai 382 guru pelatih daripada sembilan bidang pengkhususan yang berlainan di lima IPG terlibat dalam kajian yang dijalankan. Tiga responden juga ditemu bual untuk mendapatkan penjelasan pengamalan kecerdasan emosi semasa praktikum. Hasil kajian secara keseluruhannya mendapati sebanyak 62.8 peratus daripada guru-guru pelatih mempunyai aras kecerdasan emosi yang rendah. Terdapat perbezaan yang signifikan antara Skala komposit Intrapersonal EQ dengan prestasi pencapaian akademik manakala Skala komposit Interpersonal EQ, Intrapersonal EQ dan General Mood EQ menunjukkan perbezaan yang signifikan dengan pencapaian praktiku.....

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This paper investigates the impact of oil price shocks on the Malaysian stock market.The co-integration test results documented zero co-integration equation. This finding implies no long-run relationship between the variables in the system. The causality test which looks at short run dynamic interactions between the variables also documented the same finding where shocks in all types of oil prices do not impose any effect on movements in stock price. This finding leads us to conclude that, a change in oil price(s) has no significant effect on stock market both in the short-run and long-run. These findings also lead us to conclude that, change in oil price, particularly domestic oil price cannot be used as a policy tool in adjusting the stock market in any case shocks in oil price strike again in future...

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An exploratory study was conducted to investigate the social science literacy among form four students in Malaysian secondary schools. The aim of the study was to explore social science literacy in selected social science subjects, namely History, Geography, Moral Education, and Islamic Education as well as the students‟s general knowledge in the area of social science in Malaysian secondary schools. The study also intended to propose guidelines on standards in social science literacy for secondary schools in Malaysia. The study used quantitative research method. Five sets of questionnaires in the form of objective multiple-choice tests were developed to identify social science literacy in the three domains of knowledge, skills and values in the four selected subjects and general knowledge. The respondents were 16 years old students studying in form four at national secondary schools throughout Malaysia. From the total of 4705 respondents, the number of respondents for Geography was .....

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The study was conducted to examine the effect of service quality and perceived value on customer satisfaction using a sample of 150 usable questionnaires gathered from undergraduate students in one public university in Sarawak, Malaysia. The outcomes of hierarchical regression analysis showed four important findings: firstly, relationship between perceive value and reliability significantly correlated with customer satisfaction. Secondly, relationship between perceive value and responsiveness significantly correlated with customer satisfaction. Thirdly, relationship between perceive value and assurance significantly correlated with customer satisfaction. Fourthly, relationship between perceive value and empathy significantly correlated with customer satisfaction. This result confirms that perceive value does act as a partial mediating variable in the service quality models of the organizational sample. In addition, implications and limitations, as well as directions for future research.....

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This survey study was carried out to review the measurement items of learning environment model for engineering students. A total of 535 respondents were involved in this research. The variables presented in this research were the peer interaction, lecturer interaction and education facilities. Data were analyzed descriptively for reliability (Cronbach Alpha values) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to obtain 3 factor solutions using AMOS software. The results showed that the Cronbach Alpha was on the classification of high and very high which was higher than 0.70. Result of CFA confirmed 3 factors solution with data collected was fit with model. The study also proposed a model of learning environment for engineering students...

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This study aims to identify the limitations of relationship investment research in relationship marketing domain. Based upon 53 relevant journal articles, the results of content analysis reveal limited studies on the integrated effect of customer and partner investments and the effect of relationship investment’s dimensions, particularly in customer-brand relationship domain. The findings stimulate and guide future research to explain the role of relationship investment in relationship marketing. This study is perhaps one of few attempts to identify and evaluate extant relationship marketing literatures on the role of relationship investment in a systematic and integrative manner...

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Kepemimpinan mempengaruhi tekanan kerja dalam kalangan tenaga pengajar. Tekanan kerja menyebabkan prestasi dan kualiti kerja menurun. Oleh itu, gaya kepemimpinan yang lebih fleksibel dan bercorak perkongsian perlu diamalkan dalam sistem pendidikan. Tujuan kajian ini adalah untuk menentukan perkaitan di antara kepemimpinan yang bercorak perkongsian iaitu kepemimpinan distributif dan tekanan kerja dalam pendidikan teknik dan vokasional. Kajian ini adalah berbentuk kualitatif iaitu temu bual separa berstruktur. Responden kajian dipilih dengan teknik persampelan bertujuan iaitu mempunyai minima setahun pengalaman mengajar dalam pendidikan teknik dan vokasional. Seramai empat responden iaitu tenaga pengajar daripada pendidikan teknik dan vokasional telah dipilih untuk sesi temu bual. Data kajian dianalisis dengan kaedah analisis kandungan. Data temu bual dikumpul dan dianalisis dengan mentranskripsi temu bual secara verbatim, dikod dan dikategorikan mengikut tema. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan.....

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The inspiration for this report comes from moves that are taking place in Malaysian research, in particular an expansion of official acceptance of practice-led and based research methods by the Ministry of Education, Malaysia. Consequently, academics across the country are beginning to embrace approaches that have, from my personal observations, been previously unexplored and, indeed, often discouraged. Changes are a foot, however, as music performance and research departments are recognising the values as well as the creative and professional potentials of this research. While practice-led research has been increasing exponentially worldwide for decades now, some still struggle to define and support it because of its open and flexible nature, and the implicit questioning of standard research conventions, including the incorporation of creative and descriptive materials. I suggest here that this flexibility is precisely why it is a method that has great benefits for artistic applicatio.....

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Purpose – The purpose of the study is to review readability formulae and offer a critique, based on a comparison of the grading of a variety of texts given by six well-known formulae. Methodology – A total of 64 texts in English were selected either by or for native English speaking children aged between six and 11 years. Each text was assessed using six commonly used readability formulae via the Words Count website (http://www.wordscount. info/) which provides automated readability indices using FOG, Spache, SMOG, Flesh-Kincaid and Dale-Chall. For the ATOS formula, the Renaissance Learning website was used (http://www.renlearn.com/ar/overview/atos/). Statistical tests were then carried out to check the consistency among the six formulae in terms of their predictions of levels of text difficulty. Findings – The analysis demonstrated significantly different readability indices for the same text using different formulae. It appeared that some of the formulae (but not all) were cons.....

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