The Kadazan Dusun sundatang from Tambunan, the Rungus sundatang, and the Lotud gagayan are three kinds of boat lutes from Sabah. Each is carved from a single log of jackfruit wood, but they vary structurally. Resembling somewhat Philippine boat lutes, they differ from the sape-types of Sarawak and Kalimantan. They are played solo in non-ritual contexts. The gagayan, however, was played in pairs and the Tambunan sundatang was sometimes accompanied by a hand-held gong when accompanying the slow, sedate magarang sundatang dance. Today, there are very few musicians playing the unique Tambunan sundatang, while the Lotud gagayan has recently declined with the demise of older performers. The Rungus sundatang is still extant and continues to be performed in many longhouses. This paper discusses these three types of Dusunic boat lutes, their structures, performance practices and music, and suggests a possible origin for these kinds of instruments found in northern Borneo...

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Gamification is being used in education to motivate students through various game elements, one of which is rewards. However, rewards should be relevant and suitable otherwise it will not have the desired effect. The aim of this study was to determine the types of redeemable rewards that students in an Institution of Higher Learning would like to obtain to motivate them to do well in their modules or programmes. A questionnaire, which included close and open ended questions, was distributed to students in a local private institution. 158 completed questionnaires were obtained from students who were in Foundation, Diploma, Bachelors and Masters degree programmes. The questionnaire included some suggestions of rewards and students were asked to rank them. They were also asked to suggest some rewards which they thought would motivate and engage them to attempt and complete work given in class or as homework. The results show that students would like to receive tangible as well as intangib.....

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This study is to explore visual diary as a tool that allows students to express their multiple creative views and their abilities in generating ideas. This tool has been integrated as part of the selected students’ assignments and projects as a practice in the creative arts education. Many of them were taught to sketch, doodle and experiment in different drawing techniques. Nonetheless, many of them are facing the problem of lack of knowledge and understanding in the ideation process. A total of 35 visual diaries were selected, one each from a pool of 35 students in the graphic design program. The samples in this study were 35 (N=35) students who were enrolled to pursue the visual communication module in the first year of the graphic design program. The research was conducted at the researcher’s university, being a private institution located in Kuala Lumpur. The main tool for data collection was an assessment rubric, namely, the Ideo assessment. The quantitative data from the IDEO.....

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This study was conducted to justify the correlation between students’ existing knowledge of acid and base with environmental sustainability awareness. A total of 100 form 4 science stream students were involved in this study. The research design was a correlational study and used quantitative analysis based on student performance test and environmental sustainability awareness questionnaire. Student performance test was used to examine the level of students’ existing knowledge of acid and base. Meanwhile, environmental sustainability awareness questionnaire was applied to identify the level of students’ environmental sustainability awareness. Expert validation was analysed using Cohen’s Kappa. Kappa value for both instruments is 1.00 from two experts. In addition, reliability of the instruments was analysed using Cronbach’s Alpha. The Cronbach’s Alpha values for instruments of test and questionnaire are 0.724 and 0.785 respectively. Findings from the test conduct.....

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