This  research  aims  to  examine  the  effectiveness  of  learning  the  concept  of  Object Oriented  Programming  (OOP)  through  role-playing  games  among  undergraduate students. A  framework on game-based learning (GBL) has been developed and a variety of platform games  (computer-based and mobile) titled Odyssey of Phoenix have been developed. The development of this  game  has combined the concept of constructive alignment and design of game elements with  appropriate OOP learning content. A total of nine experts were involved in the validity of game  design and validity of learning content with each having more than five years of experience. A  pilot test was conducted involving  20  students.   This  study  uses  a  quantitative  approach   through  quasi- experimental pre-test and post-test involving a randomly selected sample of 214  first year  undergraduate  students  in  computer  science  from  three  institutions.....

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Visualization strategies are strategies that utilize images to help strengthen the students' understanding of reading comprehension. Through this strategy, students will describe the meaning obtained from the text in the form of rough sketches. The use of these images allows the students to be more focused on the continuation of reading because they understand the meaning more clearly. This study aims to investigate the impact of information visualization techniques on reading comprehension performance among elementary school students in Malaysia. The study adapted quantitative study through a quasi-experimental design and survey questionnaire. 300 students from Standard 4 to Standard 6 (10 to 12 years old) were chosen as the participants of the study. They were divided into Experimental Group (n=150) and the control Group (n=150). The experiment has been done in 2 classes per week, in a total of 6 weeks. The participants in the Experimental Group were taught reading comprehension usin.....

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Due to the increasing stormwater runoff in urban areas, stormwater infrastructure requires modification to address the flash flooding issues. Occurrences of floodwater overflowing the urban drain have urged drainage engineers to re-look its design. Conventionally, the urban drain is designed to free flow following the provided drain slope. This paper is challenging the old design by introducing orifices into the drain. The lesser-known stormwater characteristics restricted by orifices in open drains were investigated. In this case, twenty-four units of terrace houses were selected as the study area with special attention to the 170 m front drain with a dimension of 0.5 m x 0.55 m. The drain was inserted with one to three orifices of 0.45 m diameter separating the drain into one or more compartments. Three scenarios were formulated, namely S1 with one orifice plate at 170 m, S2 with two orifice plates at 86 and 170 m, and S3 with three orifices at 50, 110 and 170 m, from the starting po.....

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