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The pursuit for higher degrees is accelerating in the country. With mushrooming foreign and local graduates from non-university and university status institutions, it is critical to explore the types of qualification awarded and the existing platform for recognition and accreditation purposes. The objectives of this study are: (i) to gather information with regard to current policies and practices pertaining to recognition and accreditation systems of the higher education sector, with specific reference to Malaysia and China (ii) to review the existing policy between accreditation and recognition agencies/ providers and (iii) to recommend best practices, guidelines and strategies for practical implementation in Malaysia. The methodology pursuit in Malaysia and China involved inspection of documents and purposive interviews. The research was implemented from May 2009 to november 2009. The results of the research revealed that though the worldview of mutual recognition agreement is to li.....

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Information technology in schools aggressively emerged in the late 1990s to reinvent the teaching and learning process in Malaysia. Schools no longer existed merely for the purposes of traditional teaching and learning but were needed to enhance their knowledge activities so as to be able to cope with the rapid changes that were taking place. The objectives of this study are to determine the contribution of knowledge contextual factors to the knowledge activities, with particular reference to the emergence of information technologies in schools, and to evaluate progress with respect to knowledge activities in school education. The research is designed around questionnaires based on a knowledge-management conceptual framework administered to random samples of teachers in information technology facilitated. schools and regular schools so as to be able to make comparisons.Interestingly the fi ndings show that the information technology under the “ICT Facilitated school” is not a key f.....

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Sarjana Muda Pendidikan (Pengurusan Pemiagaan) adalah salah satu daripada program yang ditawarkan di Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris. Kemasukan pelajar bagi program ini ditapis dengan syarat-syarat yang telah ditetapkan. Salah satu kriteria ialah asas akademik bagi subjek berkaitan dengan program yang dipohon oleh pelajar. Sejauh mana prasyarat kemasukan mempengaruhi pencapaian tidak dapat dijelaskan. Justru kajian ini cuba menentukan samna ada prasyarat mempunyai pengaruh ke atas pencapaian pelajar. Kajian ini membataskan kepada pengaruh asas matematik dan ekonomi ke atas pencapaian salah satu subjek major program, iaitu Prinsip Ekonomi. Hasil kajian mendapati bahawa terdapat perbezaan signifikan antara saluran kemasukan dengan purata pencapaian pelajar bagi subjek yang dikaji. Analisis regressi pula menunjukkan pelajar yang mempunyai asas lebih kukuh mendapat keputusan yang lebih baik. Kajian menunjukkan pelajar yang pertama sekali berhadapan dengan subjek ini tidak signifikan...

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Pencapaian mata pelajaran Ekonomi Asas di Negeri Perak menunjukkan pola yang turun naik sejak sedekad yang lepas. Tidak banyak perbezaan dari segi kuantiti antara bandar dan luar bandar tetapi kualiti menunjukkan bahawa pelajar di bandar mencatat keputusan yang lebih baik daripada kawasan bandar. Hasil daripada kajian ini mendapati bahawa selain daripada perbezaan faktor sosioekonomi antara kumpulan bandar dan luar bandar, latar belakang akademik pelajar yang lebih rendah adalah salah satu faktor yang mempengaruhi perbezaan kualiti pencapaian. Kaedah pengajaran juga mempengaruhi pola ini di mana penggunaan bahan dalam pengajaran, bentuk ujian dan latihan yang diamalkan membezakan kualiti pencapaian antara bandar dan luar bandar...

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1. Pernyataan Masalah Kementerian Pelajaran telah memberi peruntukan yang banyak bagi guru B&K menjalankan pelbagai program. Kesemua ini menelan perbelanjaan yang besar. Selain daripada mengenal pasti keberkesanan program B&K kajian ini menganggar keberkesanan kos bagi setiap program intervensi yang dijalankan di sekolah. 2. Objektif Kajian Kajian ini bertujuan membandingkan keberkesanan kos program B&K di sekolah menengah mengikut empat jenis sekolah, iaitu sekolah menengah harian, sekolah berasrama penuh, sekolah menengah kebangsaan agama dan sekolah menengah teknik. Selain itu, kajian inijuga bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti faktor-faktor keberkesanan koso 3. Metodologi Kajian Rekabentuk kajian ialah melalui tinjauan tiga pihak yang terlibat dengan program B&K, iaitu guru B&K, guru dan pelajar. Data dikumpul dengan menggunakan tiga set soalselidik yang menggunakan beberapa instrumen persepsi untuk mengukur "kepuasan" pihak-pihak tertentu tadi, selain daripada mendapatkan data berkaita.....

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This paper discusses the factors contributing to student achievement in English language literacy in primary schools within Sibu division, Sarawak, Malaysia. The study involved 694 teachers who taught in 105 lower primary schools. Binary logistic regression was applied to predict the instructional leadership’s influence on student achievement in literacy. The findings revealed that one dimension of instructional leadership - supervising and evaluating instruction - emerged as strong predictors of literacy. The result indicated that schools were more than 17 times more likely to achieve 100% literacy rate when the instruction processes were supervised and evaluated by the headmasters. Supervision and evaluation of instruction had a positive influence on students’ achievement for English language literacy, hence making this a possible course of action for school heads. More comprehensive studies are needed to ascertain its consistency as well as investigating other predictors for lit.....

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The quality of human capital is indispensable for economic growth and sustainability. The developed nations have shown evidence of a positive relationship between education and economic development. In all respects, a better understanding of economics among citizens has led to more efficiency in implementing economic policies. In this paper, we explore a possible relationship between economic literacy and policy understanding. Policy knowledge, interest and explanation are measured through policy understanding. This study used the students’ teachers as a sample and found that economic literacy was below 50 per cent. Meanwhile, the level of policy understanding was moderate. Interestingly, our findings showed that economic literacy is not strongly associated with economic policy understanding. Policy interest appeared as an important element for policy understanding among the sample. In a volatile economic environment, the level of economic knowledge among the population is a vital fa.....

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