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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Understanding the application of the concept of equity is very crucial especially in educational  course. In the case of physical education, equal opportunity in the sense of offering each student  equal access to the programmes while ignoring individual differences is not an alternative in  achieving gender equity. What is more appropriate is equality of outcome, which recognises that  each student gets what is necessary to be educated. This study seeks to understand the module of  PLKN's physical activity with respect to trainees' perceptions toward the concept of equity in  physical activity. The purpose of the study is to find out whether the physical module of PLKN is  seen as equitable by both genders. A stratified sampling has been applied whereby 160 PLKN trainees  at Jugra Camp Banting were given a questionnaire. The study employed an adapted  version  of  Life   Effectiveness  Questionnaires  which  comprises  seven dimensions (Neill et al., 2003). .....

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