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Are religious values universal? After studying and teaching religious studies for nearly thirty years it is hard not to recognise that there are indeed a plethora of local, indigenous, and revivalist religious traditions, both within larger religions and independent of them. There are many Judaisms, Islams, Christianities, Buddhisms, Hinduisms and Daoisms. My researches have led me to the conclusion that the differences between religious traditions are real and not easily reduced to any single pattern or model. But there are, of course, many overlapping elements, conceptual, theological and most evidently historical. I am anxious about any list of universal values divorced from (he context of their interpretation and application in living religious communities. Our values are those we live rather than those we merely aspire to without direct and immediate impact on our daily lives. Any list of values will exclude and stigmatise those that fail to fully accord with it. These failures wi.....

Conference Item Published 2004 1460 hits Available

University students subject matter knowledge and misconception of teaching games for understanding and its implication to teaching practice

Jani Julismah, Pearson Phil, Forrest Greg, Webb Paul,

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This study is to track the subject matter knowledge of and misconception about Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) of fourth year undergraduate pre-service teachers‟ physical education majors at an Australian university. The test of reliability on misconception scale are subjected to a Rasch analysis (KR-20 = .52) which consists of 20 dichotomous questions with true/false answers. Analyses of the data reveal that students achieve a credit on subject matter knowledge and attain four misconceptions about TGfU. There is a significant (p < 0.05) difference in the scores for subject matter knowledge and concepts of TGfU through paired samples t test. These results imply that subject matter knowledge does have an effect on students‟ concepts of TGfU but with very low relationship (r(53 = .19, p < 0.05). The implication of content knowledge to teaching is to resist the pre-concept or misconception of the subject matter. If pre-service teachers are to improve the quality of teaching an.....

Article Published 2012 1514 hits Available

Organizational structure as a predictor of employee involvement and quality of production: evidence for Malaysia manufacturing firms

Julian Paul Sidin

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Organizational structure provides guidance to all employees by laying out the official reporting relationships that govern the work flow of the organization. This study tries to open up many windows, still locked in the area of organizational structure in regards to employee involvement and quality of production in manufacturing industry in Malaysia. Such information would enhance the school of thought among researchers. Keywords Employee involvement, organizational structure, quality of production..

Article Published 2014 76 hits Available

Magnetic and phase behavior of magnetic water-in-oil microemulsions

Brown Paul, Mohamed Azmi, Ardyani Tretya, Rogers Sarah E., Eastoe Julian,

Article Published 2017 1522 hits Limited

The effect of teacher self-disclosure in improving ESL undergraduates argumentative essays

Paul Gnanaselvam Pakirnathan

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This study was undertaken to find out if teacher self-disclosure could positively effect English as a Second Language (ESL) undergraduate students' writing performance in argumentative essays. Using the mixed-methods intervention design. both quantitative and qualitative data were collected in this study. 75 undergraduates from three tutorial groups from an academic writing course at a Malaysian private institution of higher learning were selected as the experimental and control groups through purposive sampling. The quasi-experimental pre-test-post-test design was employed to collect the undergraduates’ scores on argumentative essays while qualitative data were gathered using three methods, which were observation, focus group interview and one-to-one interview. The Pearson product-moment correlation and paired samples t-test were used for quantitative data analysis while thematic analysis was used for qualitative d.....

Thesis Published 2021 2879 hits Available

Development and validation of instructional package for teaching and learning of genetics in senior secondary schools

Adelana, Owolabi Paul

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The sound knowledge of Biology is, to date, is a strong prerequisite to study many Biological and Life Sciences, examples of which include Physiology, Forensic Science, Pharmacy, Medicine, Nursing, Biochemistry, to mention a few. These fields, amongst others, rely on a very important aspect of Biology known as Genetics, which is the study of heredity and variation in living organisms. The field of Genetics intersects with many other life sciences. However, students’ attempts of questions on Genetics in internal and external examinations in senior secondary schools in Nigeria have been very poor over the years because they find the concepts of Genetics hard to understand. The need, therefore, arises to look for ways of dealing with this prolonged problem. This study, therefore, attempted to develop an institutional package and also surveyed the extent to which it is adequate for instructional delivery. The Instrumentation design describes the processes of package development based on .....

Article Published 2021 1220 hits Available

Customers’ Gratification and ISO 9001 Quality Management Practices Among Manufacturing Companies

Olanrewaju Paul Olonadea

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It is imperative to have a thorough awareness of the relationship between ISO 9001 quality management and customer satisfaction. It is on this basis that this study aims to analyze the link that exists between customer satisfaction and ISO 9001 Quality Management proxies by dedication to quality, employee participation, and fact-based management. The descriptive survey design was used for this study, and primary data were collected using a self-developed questionnaire from 630 randomly chosen respondents from a population of 17836 employees of 30 manufacturing companies in Lagos State, Nigeria. Deming’s Theory of Total Quality Management and Signaling Theory underpinned the study. The Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS 21.0) was used to evaluate the four hypotheses raised using the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient at 0.05 significance level and multiple regression. The study found that dedication to quality, and employee participation have a significant pos.....

Article Published 2023 808 hits Available

Burnout, coping strategies, and psychological well-being among counsellors-in-training (CITS) A study in higher education institutions

Azzah Sabrina Muhammad Shariff Paul

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Burnout, coping strategies, and psychological well-being are critical aspects of a counsellor-in-training's (CIT) professional development. In the demanding field of counselling, CITs often face various stressors, making it important to understand the factors that affect their mental health and resilience. This study aims (1) To describe demographics characteristics (age, gender, ethnicity) among CITs, (2) To identify level of burnout, coping strategies and psychological well-being among CITs, and (3) To determine the relationships between burnout, coping strategies and psychological well-being among CITs. This study used quantitative correlational research design. The purposive sampling method was employed to select respondents, based on specific criteria relevant to the study’s objectives. The data were collected using self-administered questionnaires to 406 counsellors-in-training in six universities in Malaysia. The set of questionnaires were divided into four parts measuring dem.....

Article Published 2024 391 hits Available

Exploring reading comprehension using think-aloud protocols in a secondary school

Paul Manikam V. Pandian

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The aim of this investigation is to study how think-aloud protocols are used in a Form Four reading comprehension class. It is to see how students use appropriate strategies to enhance their reading comprehension. Three participants, from a Form 4 class are selected. They are then exposed to think-loud protocols. Each of them is given an appropriate passage of the same level to read. They are then asked to read and think at the same time. This is to see how they verbalize their thoughts and feelings. This session is audio-taped and the data transcribed. These participants are then asked to retell through delayed retelling what they have understood from the passage. Later they are interviewed by the researcher. Based on the data collected, this think-aloud protocols provides information on reading strategies. Also, based on the information obtained, participants use reading strategies to have a better understanding of the passage. Therefore by making them a.....

Thesis Published 2008 435 hits Available

Novel Tengku Menteri dan Urih Pesisir analisis kepimpinan berkualiti dengan teori teksdealisme

Mohd Nazri Zainuddin

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenalpasti kepimpinan berkualiti dalam novel sejarah Tengku Menteri (Malaysia) dan Urih Pesisir (Brunei). Secara khususnya, kajian ini menggunakan teori teksdealisme dengan mengaplikasikan prinsip kehadiran, perinsip perlanggaran, prinsip pengukuhan dan prinsip individualisme. Kajian ini juga memberi tumpuan kepada tiga watak iaitu Long Jaafar, Ngah Ibrahim dan Kapten Speedy daripada novel Tengku Menteri. Manakala tiga watak lagi daripada novel Urih Pesisir iaitu Syarif Omar, Wan Idrus dan Paul Gray. Watak-watak ini dipilih kerana mereka merupakan pentadbir, pemimpin masyarakat dan mempunyai pengaruh yang besar dalam kalangan masyarakat. Teori teksdealisme oleh Mana Sikana digunakan untuk menganalisis kepimpinan berkualiti yang dipraktikkan oleh watak-watak tersebut. Analisis ini juga disokong dengan mengaplikasikan konsep kepimpinan berkualiti, kepimpinan Islam dan budaya Melayu. Permasalahan kajian adalah tertumpu kepada pengamalan kepimpinan berkualiti .....

Thesis Published 2015 4672 hits Available

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