The application of High Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) in the teaching and learning system of Dini Integrated Curriculum (DIC) and Tahfiz Integrated Curriculum (TIC) is in line with its main goal which is to produce balanced and excellent students based on 'aqli and naqli to prepare future scholars and religious muthaqqaf. This is because the ability to relate 'aqli and naqli requires dynamic reasoning ability. However, DIC and TIC are new curricula that have been appointed as the national curriculum in Malaysia. Therefore, this study aims to explore the issues experienced by teachers in conducting HOTS-based teaching in the DIC and TIC curriculum. This study is a qualitative case study conducted on a group of eight experts who are directly involved in the DIC and TIC system. Data were collected using in-depth interviews and analyzed thematically. The findings of the study showed that there are five main issues faced by teachers; namely related to Arabic language proficiency, understandi.....

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A pedagogical agent is an on–screen virtual character that is used to serve instructional purposes in virtual learning environment (VLE). Of late, research about pedagogical agents has received increasing interest among researchers, but still there is little research on the facial appearance of animated pedagogical agent. Facial design of pedagogical agent is a key method to achieve believability among students. Pedagogical agent with more ideal facial design has greater motivational impact. Notably, a “cute” looking face is very essential as audience identifies with it the most. The term “cute” reminds one of the famous Japanese cultural term which is known as kawaii. Hence, this study aimed to develop kawaii design of pedagogical agent and look at its effect on students’ satisfaction in VLE. Successive Approximation Model (SAM) is the basis for design and development of the pedagogical agents and VLE. A set of Post-Study System Usability Questionnaire (PSSUQ) was used to .....

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This study aims to identify the initial effectiveness of teaching primary school teachers of Islamic education based on higher order thinking skills (HOTS). The study involved Perak but this study is an initial survey prior to a broader study on the run. Component higher-order thinking such as skill appeal vary, skills collating sequence, skills forecasting, skills definition and skills to create the analogy that in view of the three main components of initial teacher teaching the lesson planning, setting teaching objectives and induction set is selected as the conceptual framework. This study used a descriptive analysis (through a questionnaire). All of this data collection instrument developed by the researcher with the modification of the instrument KBAT Ministry of Education and experts involved and its contents confirmed by a reference panel of experts. Cronbach alpha reliability level value obtained is high at between (0.82173). A total of 400 teachers of Islamic education random.....

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Pedagogical agents are animated virtual characters that play human instructional roles in educational settings. Towards the advancement of computer technology and communication, human learning is becoming more advanced by using technologies such as pedagogical agent. Previously, the look of pedagogical agents has been designed with own imagination of the designers without assessing its impact on the learning. In addition, there are limited researches on the visual appearance of pedagogical agent. Therefore, a further study is required to fill this gap and provide appropriate visual appearance for pedagogical agent that will contribute to enhancing students’ motivation in learning. Accordingly, the present research proposes kawaii designs for the facial appearance of pedagogical agent. Eventually, students’ affective state on the kawaii style pedagogical agents and relation towards motivation in learning also will be studied. Therefore, this paper proposes a conceptual framework tha.....

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Kaolin has been found to be a more economical alternative in ceramic hollow membrane fabrication compared to alumina, silica, and zirconia despite having similar properties. However, it was discovered that apart from having high mechanical strength and the ability to withstand high operational temperature, the kaolin membrane has the tendency to dissolve in a high alkaline solution. Hence, in this study, zirconia (ZrO2) was imposed to kaolin suspension as co-starting material due to its stable hexagonal properties with kaolin to overcome this drawback. To study the dissolution property of the modified kaolin-based membrane, a phase inversion technique was used to fabricate zirconia-kaolin hollow fiber membrane (ZKHFM) followed by immersion in ammonium hydroxide (NH4OH) as an alkaline solution. Ammonia was aptly chosen for it being considered as one of the pollutants to be removed from wastewater. The mechanism, morphology and properties of the membrane were investigated in terms of sin.....

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The adverse effects of ammonia found in wastewater streams lead to the development of advanced water treatment technology, i.e. membrane contactor (MC). In this study, single layer hollow fibre membrane (SLZK) and dual layer hollow fibre membrane (DLZK) were prepared from zirconia and kaolin and modified into hydrophobic membrane through simple grafting process via fluoroalkylsilane (FAS) agent. The properties of membranes such as morphology, surface roughness, mechanical strength, wettability and liquid entry pressure were analysed through scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM), 3-point bending strength, contact angle and LEPw setup. Finally, the performance of the membranes was also investigated towards ammonia removal via membrane contactor system. Our findings showed that hydrophobicity properties significantly improved for both SLZK and DLZK membranes after grafting modification process as indicated by the increase of contact angle value from 5� and 1�.....

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This research aimed to investigate the ultrafiltration of water from emulsified oily wastewater through the application of surface-functionalized ceramic membrane to enhance its water permeability based on optimized parameters using a cross-flow filtration system. The interactive effects of feed concentration (10?1000 ppm), pH (4?10), and pressure (0?3 bar) on the water flux and oil rejection were investigated. Central composite design (CCD) from response surface methodology (RSM) was employed for statistical analysis, modeling, and optimization of operating conditions. The analysis of variance (ANOVA) results showed that the oil rejection and water flux models were significant with p-values of 0.0001 and 0.0075, respectively. In addition, good correlation coefficients of 0.997 and 0.863 were obtained for the oil rejection and water flux models, respectively. The optimum conditions for pressure, pH, and feed concentration were found to be 1.5 bar, pH 8.97, and 10 ppm, respectively with.....

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Introduction: Injury are noticeably high among field hockey players in Malaysia in which more than half of the players had lower limb injuries and up to 75% of field hockey players survived at least one acute injury during a game or practice and the trend is keep going up till now even though sport protective equipment as injury prevention in Hockey has been practiced. Objective: This study aims to identify the injury history and determine the level of knowledge and application of protective equipment among hockey players in Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris. Methodology: 46 respondents currently play Hockey sport in UPSI and have participated in this study. The respondents were given a set of questionnaires that have been blasted through an online platform, the questionnaire consist of four sections; A) demography, B) injury history, C) knowledge in protective equipment, and D) application of protective equipment. Result: Six questions of each section (Sections C and D) an.....

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Proses pembelajaran merupakan aspek penting dalam memastikan perkembangan kanak-kanak. Terdapat beberapa pendekatan yang digunakan di prasekolah, semuanya digunakan adalah untuk memastikan setiap kanak-kanak mampu mencapai tahap perkembangan yang holistik. Kajian ini dijalankan untuk melihat sama ada pendekatan projek berkesan untuk menanamkan sikap inkuiri dalam diri kanak-kanak di prasekolah. Sampel kajian ini melibatkan 17 orang kanak-kanak yang berumur 6 tahun. Kajian ini dijalankan di Pusat Penyelidikan Perkembangan Kanak-kanak Negara (NCDRC), Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris. Kajian secara kualitatif ini menggunakan hasil lakaran kanak-kanak sepanjang projek dilaksanakan. Hasil dari pemerhatian mendapati, kaedah pendekatan projek dapat meningkatkan sikap inkuiri kanak-kanak di prasekolah. Bukan sahaja di prasekolah, malahan sikap ingin tahu yang tinggi juga dapat dilihat apabila kanak-kanak sering mengajukan soalan kepada ibu bapa di rumah apabila mereka ingin mengetahui sesuat.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan mengenal pasti Persepsi Atlet Murid Terhadap Tingkah Laku Kepimpinan Jurulatih di Sekolah Sukan Malaysia Zon Timur. Instrumen kajian yang digunakan ialah Leadership Scale for Sport (LSS) versi kegemaran dan persepsi atlet. Subjek kajian adalah populasi atlet di kedua-dua buah Sekolah Sukan Malaysia pada tahun 2007 (n=246; SSMP=166, SSMT=80). Dapatan kajian yang diperolehi di analisis menggunakan Statistik Inferensi. Analisis data kajian yang terlibat ialah Ujiant Tidak Bersandar bagi persoalan kajian satu, Ujian-t Tidak Bersandar dan ANOVA sehala bagi persoalan kajian yang dua. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa tidak terdapat perbezaan yang signifikan bagi faktor demografi Sekolah Sukan Malaysia Zon Timur, jantina, umur dan jenis sukan yang diceburi dan pencapaian. Hasil dapatan kajian menunjukkan atlet murid di Sekolah Sukan Malaysia Zon Timur menggemari gaya kepimpinan Latihan dan Arahan, Maklum Balas Positif Demokratik dan Sokongan Sosial. Jurulatih .....

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