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An action study on teaching group counselling skills among postgraduate counselor trainees

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The counselling profession is known as a professional body that is entrusted to deal with the well-being of clients. In order to help clients to have greater psychological development, group counselling is one of the methods to be utilized by counsellors. The competency of counsellors especially counsellor trainees in conducting group counselling is critical to ensure the quality and effectiveness of counselling sessions. However, there is a gap between the current training practices and student outcomes as counsellor trainees found to have a good knowledge on group counselling, but lack of skills to put theory into practice, especially to apply group counselling skills in their counselling session. Thus, this study was carried out to look at the best method that is preferably useful and most effective in teaching group counselling skills among postgraduate counsellor trainees in Malaysia. A total of 35 counsellor trainees was recruited from an education focused university in Malaysia .....

Article Published 2018 1615 hits Available

The evaluation of user acceptance of an Iban digital story telling (IDST) application among Iban language teachers

Saad Aslina, Robin Kenneth, Omar Khan Saira Banu, Ubaidullah Nor Hasbiah,

Article Published 2017 1973 hits Limited

Infographics in education: review on infographics design

Naparin Husni, Saad Aslina,

Article Published 2017 1288 hits Limited

The current practice of data management of schools and District Education Offices: is there a need for a new approach?

Ubaidullah Nor Hasbiah, Mohamed Zulkifley, Saad Aslina, Hamid Jamilah, Abdul Rashid Nazre, Hashim Mohamadisa, Omar Khan Saira Banu,

Article Published 2017 3990 hits Limited

Virtual environment for diagnosing dyslexic children visual spatial potential

Hamid Jamilah, Ubaidullah Nor Hasbiah, Saad Aslina,

Article Published 2017 2500 hits Limited

Object oriented vs structured analysis and design in system development courses

Aslina Saad

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Objectives: The main aim of this study was to investigate the factors that influence students’, academicians’, clients’, as well as developer’s preferences in choosing their preferred approach in system development, namely structured analysis design (SAD) or object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD). Methods: The research design was based on a survey methodology and a case study. For the survey, questionnaires were administered to 30 students and 38 academicians, who were randomly selected from several Malaysian universities. For the case study, the requirements of the information system were modeled and presented to several clients to elicit their feedback. The survey data were analyzed using SPSS Findings: The result shows that students preferred the use of OOAD approach, which clearly outnumbered those who preferred the SAD approach, which stood at 33%. Interestingly, the majority (53%) of academicians preferred the use of a mixture of both approaches. Likewise, the clients.....

Article Published 2019 1189 hits Available

Towards futuristic education strategy in developing trainee teachers personality

Aslina Ahmad

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Teachers’ personality plays an important role in educating the new generation. This paper attempts to discuss a futuristic strategy in developing trainee teachers’ personality in one university course in an education university in Malaysia. The strategy is merging community with classroom using blended and Adventure Based Counseling, that is applied in Personality Development course. Trainee teachers are required to apply what they have learnt in the classroom in their community outreach programme and experiential learning. The usage of technology devices and applications are encouraged to be utilized creatively in presenting trainee teachers’ real community experience in classroom. These efforts are targeted to enhance trainee teachers personality development and to prepare them mentally and physically as effective futuristic teachers...

Article Published 2019 1069 hits Available

Dimensions of peace culture based on Al Quran values

Aslina Ahmad

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This study has developed a model of peace based on al-Quran. Considering this situation, the Indonesia University of Education and the University of Education Sultan Idris in Malaysia undertook an initiative to jointly identify the local value that has contributed to the perceived and expected peace based on al-Quran in school communities. In this case, schools successfully establish a climate of peace, respect, compassion, fair, ethical and mutual respect. Violence varieties, which are done by teachers and students, have been already very alarming even in the category of emergency. Peace education is an effort to develop a culture of peace schools reinforced with religious values, that education has the capacity and the responsibility to lift humanitarian issues, about how people live side by side with others, and have concern for other human beings. This is indeed the true crisis in education. This study uses qualitative and quantitative approaches. A quantitative approach is used to.....

Article Published 2019 1829 hits Available

Current trends in the integration of case-based reasoning and semantic Web

Aslina Saad

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Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) and semantic web are intelligent methods or techniques that have been used in number of critical fields. Both methods have unique strengths and immense potential in problem solving in a wide range of domains. The main aim of this paper is to highlight an overview of the current efforts by researchers to integrate the capabilities of both techniques of CBR and semantic web. Through an analysis on the current literature involving 21 related articles, a taxonomy was developed indicating there were three stands of research focus. First, 38% (n = 8) of the articles involved studies of new methods that combined both techniques. Second, 33.3% (n = 7) of the articles dealt with the development of working frameworks or new approaches. Third, 28.6% (n = 6) of the articles focused on efforts to develop systems that integrated both techniques. In particular, the analysis showed that the medical field was the dominant field in which the integrated technique was widely use.....

Article Published 2019 1257 hits Available

The trend of Body Mass Index (BMI) changes among malaysian children and the prediction at 48 months old

Aslina Saad

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Overweight and underweight are common issues among children in Malaysia and thus, Malaysian government has launched several campaigns to combat these problems. Previous research show that BMI at certain age could be predicted earlier so that early intervention can be initiate. Most of the study are very specific to some locality and certain ethnic, make it hard to generalize to the whole Malaysian. This research aims to investigate significant positive predictors of changes in Body Mass Index (BMI) of young children aged from 12 months to 48 months and to develop a prediction model for their BMI status (normal, overweight, obese, risk of overweight, underweight, and severe underweight). Data consisting of 558 records with 16 attributes involving 18,226 children, who had registered at the National Child Data Centre (NCDC) were analyzed and predicted using the decision tree algorithms of Rapid miner. The BMI of 48 months-old children can be reliably predicted by their BMI statuses at the.....

Article Published 2021 1725 hits Available

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