The purpose of this study is to develop a mobile enthalpy game application (MEGA) and study its effect on matriculation students’ achievement in writing thermochemical equations.   MEGA  is  an  Android  game  application  developed  for student  to  acquire skills to write  thermochemical equations. It is developed based on ADDIE’s, Kwon’s and the game-based learning  engineering models. MEGA was validated in terms of content,  pedagogy  and  multimedia  by  using   Cohen’s  kappa  agreement  coefficient. Reliability of MEGA is determined by using the reliability  coefficient. This quantitative study  employed  time-series  quasi  experimental  design  involving   36  students  in  the control group (PowerPoint slides) and 36 students in the experimental group  (MEGA). Samples are chosen by using a simple random sampling technique. The effect of MEGA versus   PowerPoint  slides  on  student  achievement  of  thermochemical .....

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The Islamic Real Estate Investment Trust (i-REIT) serves as an alternative Islamic investment instrument to sukuk and shariah compliant stock, which observes i-REIT experiencing a significant growth and demand in portfolio property value and Islamic market capitalization. The attractiveness of i-REIT has made it to become one of the common real estate investments apart from the physical property investment with a long-term and cheaper capital for property ownership. Likewise, the continual expansion of the i-REIT market in Malaysia is making great financial motivation that expands the investment spectrum. Therefore, the need to study the driving financial and macroeconomic interaction force with i-REIT stock return, which in turn further contributes to the Islamic finance literature. This study was confined to nine study variables and two latent which the financial and macroeconomic factors. The financial factors comprise the long-term bond yield, systematic risk, stock mark.....

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This study investigated Malaysian preschool teachers’ self-efficacy and attitudes toward the use of the English language as a medium of instruction (EMI) and proposed a model of how different variables were related to their use of English in the classrooms. In order to obtain a broad picture of the nature and scope of preschool teachers’ use of EMI, a survey study was undertaken. The research instrument was a questionnaire that was distributed to randomly-selected preschool teachers throughout Malaysia. The process of modeling was based on the empirical data and a theoretical model that was constructed on the basis of the two theoretical aspects, that is self-efficacy and attitudes-behavior relation. The theoretical model served as a bridge between the abstractions from theory and the development of the model. The model suggested that strong self-efficacy influenced preschool teachers’ use of English to teach. In addition, the model also indicated that those preschool teachers wi.....

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Increasing complexity towards harnessing the power of ICT on all levels has created uncertainty about higher educational technological capabilities and adequate strategies to develop e-readiness. In this study, an empirically grounded higher education e-readiness questionnaire in the domain of higher education was developed and validated. Exploratory factor analysis (n =�120) followed by confirmatory factor analysis (n =�336) was done which was presented in two forms; covariance model and the structural model. The covariance model showed that the 5 indicators (?Innovativeness?, ?Infrastructure?, ?Collaboration?, ?Learning flexibility?, ?Student experience?) and assigned 24 items were important e-readiness dimensions from the learners? point of view. The structural models validated the previously extracted factors along with their indicators. As a practical tool, the e-readiness tool could assist institutions towards identifying issues that contribute towards e-readiness thereby for.....

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This study investigated Malaysian preschool teachers? self-efficacy and attitudes toward the use of the English language as a medium of instruction (EMI) and proposed a model of how different variables were related to their use of English in the classrooms. In order to obtain a broad picture of the nature and scope of preschool teachers? use of EMI, a survey study was undertaken. The research instrument was a questionnaire that was distributed to randomly-selected preschool teachers throughout Malaysia. The process of modeling was based on the empirical data and a theoretical model that was constructed on the basis of the two theoretical aspects, that is self-efficacy and attitudes-behavior relation. The theoretical model served as a bridge between the abstractions from theory and the development of the model. The model suggested that strong self-efficacy influenced preschool teachers? use of English to teach. In addition, the model also indicated that those preschool teachers with pos.....

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The Islamic capital market operates in parallel with convention capital market in expanding, deepening, and broadening Malaysia financial system. The Islamic Real Estate Investment Trust (Islamic REIT) serves as an alternative Islamic investment instrument to sukuk and shariah compliant stock, which observes Islamic REIT experiencing a significant growth and demand in portfolio property value and Islamic market capitalization. The attractiveness of Islamic REIT has made it to become one of the common real estate investments apart from the physical property investment with a long-term and cheaper capital for property ownership. Likewise, the continual expansion of the Islamic REIT market in Malaysia is making great financial motivation that expands the investment spectrum. Therefore, the need to review the Malaysia Islamic REIT framework to thrive and revitalize structures conforms to the shariah laws and the guideline issued by security commission of Malaysia. This inevitably means the.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis buku teks Bahasa Cina Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Cina Tahun Satu dari perspektif prinsip pembinaan bahan pengajaran Bahasa Cina, merumuskan ciri-ciri, kekuatan dan kelemahan buku teks Bahasa Cina serta mengemukakan cadangan penambahbaikan bagi buku teks tersebut. Reka bentuk kajian gabungan digunakan dalam kajian ini di mana data kualitatif dan data kuantitatif dikumpul untuk menjawab tiga persoalan kajian. Kaedah analisis kandungan dokumen merupakan kaedah utama dalam kajian ini, soal selidik dan temu bual semi struktur turut dijalankan untuk mengukuhkan dan memantapkan dapatan kajian. Data kualitatif telah dianalisis dengan proses pengekodan, manakala data kuantitatif dianalisis secara deskriptif. Secara keseluruhannya, hasil kajian menunjukkan buku teks Bahasa Cina SJKC Tahun Satu menonjolkan prinsip tujuan dan prinsip sasaran yang ketara, prinsip kepraktisan dan prinsip saintifik pada tahap sederhana, manakala prinsip keserasian dan .....

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The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most unparalleled disasters the world has ever seen. Previously, the global community has faced the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), and Severe Acute Respiratory (SARS). However, the tremendous rate of infection created by the global COVID-19 pandemic is unmatchable with its rapid spread all over the world. Therefore, it is considered as a Black Swan event as created previously by the 2008 financial crisis, SARS, and 9/11 terrorist attack. All these events have triggered panic selling that affected the confidence of investors and businesses. Subsequently, stock market performance has affected the choice of investment decisions that translated into stock return. Therefore, this paper was undertaken to investigate the co-integration and causality relationship among global COVID-19 daily infected cases, COVID-19 recoveries rate, COVID-19 death rate, investor sentiment, government policy, foreign exchange rate, Malaysia.....

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Purpose: Material: Results: Conclusions: The aim of this study is to investigate the effects CoBAgi Training which apply neuromuscular training, sport specific movements that couple with perturbation variation on coordination, dynamic balance and agility among adolescent handball players. Quantitative randomized controlled trials quasi-experimental design with pretest and posttest evaluation used for this study. A total of 30 adolescent handball players (aged: 14.00 � 0.83 years) were recruited as participants. Purposive sampling methods were used for these purposes. The participants were randomly assigned into two groups i.e. control group (CG: n=15) and experimental group (EG: n=15). EG undergone six weeks CoBAgi training while CG followed their usual training routine with supervision of the researcher, there times a week for 6 weeks. In order to measure the effect of these training on coordination, dynamic balance and agility, participants have performed Carioca Test, Star Excursi.....

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Kajian ini memfokuskan kepada kearifan lokal pengkarya seni kraf tekat Perak iaitu Mardziah binti Abu Kassim yang merupakan waris sulung Adiguru Hajah Azizah dalam seni kraf tekat di negeri Perak. Kajian ini adalah untuk mengangkat identiti generasi yang memartabatkan seni tekat melalui hasil kreativiti seterusnya memperkenalkan kepelbagaian seni kraf warisan Melayu di persada dunia. Kaedah kualitatif dengan pendekatan kajian kes iaitu menerusi temu bual bersama Mardziah Abu Kassim dan menganalisis artifak seni telah membuktikan bahawa kemahiran dan kreativiti beliau mampu menghasilkan suatu idea baharu terhadap keindahan seni kraf tekat. Kemahiran dan kepakaran individu membuktikan bahawa seni warisan kraf tekat ini wajar diteruskan secara turun temurun. Daya kreativiti dan kemahiran Mardziah Abu Kassim terus berkembang dari semasa ke semasa dengan penglibatan berkolaborasi bersama pereka terkenal seperti Rizman Ruzaini dan Jimmy Choo. Hasil sentuhan dan kombinasi idea telah memberi n.....

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