KEBERKESANAN KAEDAH KIJO MEMBANTU MURID TAHUN 3 HISYAM DI SEKOLAH RENDAH AGAMA BERSEPADU KLUANG MENGATASI MASALAH PENGUASAAN KONSEP DARAB

This research was conducted to test the effectiveness of the methods of KIJO against 38 year 3 Hisyam in Sekolah Rendah Agama Bersepadu Kluang against the concept of multiplication. This method involves the representation of the letters K, I, J and O with math multiplication symbol in verse represents the object to be in multiplication. this research provides an opportunity for educators to assess its effectiveness against the understanding of the concept of multiplication pupils, detect tendencies interest pupils in learning the concept of multiplication. Pre and post test and questionnaire has been conducted to collect data. Data analyzed using excel software. Results of analysis showed that a variety of methods to make a practice of learning in learning the concept of multiplication on the rise and can assist students in mastering the concept of multiplication. This study shows that the existence of a significant relationship of the effectiveness of the methods of KIJO undertaken. In this study, indicators related to the effectiveness of learning multiplication topic was influenced by the improved performance of students, application of basic concepts through effective method and the interest of students towards the subjects

Go Green Practice: A Study on TVET Higher Learning Institution Students

Climate change and global warming has become a hot debate topic throughout the world today. The human being who lives on this earth should actively engage with environmentally conscious activities for the sustainable procurement, even just a student by making a small change in their daily lifestyle. Go green practice is the daily activities to show the intention that they are doing something for the planet earth. Therefore, a study was conducted to investigate the go green practice level among the higher learning institution students. The measurement for go green practice is the difficulty level of daily activities, which consists of three stages, namely easy, moderate and difficult. Besides, this study also compared the differences in go green practice level between female and male students. The research design used for this study is a cross-sectional survey design to gathers data and draw inferences about a population at one point in time. A total number of 116 bachelor degree students in a technical university were randomly selected for this study. A self-rating questionnaire that consists of 27 items was used to measure the students’ go green practice level. The gathered data were analysed using mean score, standard deviation, frequency and percentage. The finding shows that majority of the students tend to have a good practice category in go green practice. In addition, the result also found that there is no significant difference in the score of easy and moderate level for go green practice between male and female students, but not for the difficult stage where female students tend to have higher score than the male students. In conclusion, the TVET students do have a good practice in go green in general. However, efforts to enhance students’ awareness in Go Green practice must strengthen to ensure the environmental sustainability

Competencies Needed for Improving Teaching Among Lecturers of Polytechnics in North-Western Nigeria

The study was carried out to determine the competencies needed for improving teaching among lecturers of polytechnics in North-western Nigeria. A polytechnic was established in Nigeria to train individuals to learn a specific skill using competent lecturers for employment or self-reliance after graduation. These lecturers are very essential to the quality of students of electrical/ electronic technology in the polytechnics. However, technology dynamism has become a serious challenge for the lecturers to perform their teaching tasks. Hence the need for lecturers to continually improved on their competence and knowledge of the subject matter content they teach. The study is also to identify any difference of competency needed among the institutions. 122 electrical/electronic lecturers from nine universities were purposely selected as respondents for the study whose consisted of 55 lecturers from five state polytechnics and 67 lecturers from four federal polytechnics. The study adopted survey research design and used structured questionnaire as the main instrument for the data collection. The questionnaires were developed and distributed to respondents. Mean and improvement needed index analysis were used for data analysis to achieve the research objective whilst t-test was used to test the significance difference between the institutions. It was found that electrical/electronic lecturers in polytechnics need improvement of their competencies related to knowledge and skills in the subject matter. However, there was no significant difference of competency needed between the lecturers in state and federal polytechnics on the teaching subject matter. The implication of the finding is that the location of the lecturers did not significantly affect their opinion in the competencies. In conclusion, lecturers of electrical/electronic technology from the polytechnics has low competency in executing technical task assigned to them within the study area which required adequate investigation by determining the competencies of lecturers who happen to be the main implementers of the electrical/electronic programme. Therefore, it is recommended that the schools administrators should continually organized workshop and training for lecturers to build their capacity in order for the lecturers to always develop their competencies to effectively teach the contents of the subject assigned to them

Influence of Cognitive, Affective, and Conative Elements in Promoting Engineering Problem Solving Skills

Problem solving is one of the main challenges that needs to be mastered in engineering learning. This study aimed at looking whether cognitive, affective and conative elements play role in the process of mastering problem solving skills in engineering learning. Cognitive, affective and conative refer to the ‘Trilogy of Mind’ concept. Educational innovation from 1980-2016 shows that elements proposed in the ‘Trilogy of Mind’ capable in improving academic achievement. Previous studies conducted among engineering students in polytechnics Malaysia show the importance of cognitive, affective and conative elements in mastering problem solving in learning. This study continued in the process of looking whether cognitive, affective and conative can enhance the engineering learning. Strategy (cognitive), attitude (affective) and initiative (conative) are elements that are found to be able to improve academic achievement through the mastery of problem solving. An in-depth study is referring to the process of looking the relationship between strategy and attitude, initiative and attitude as well as the strategy and initiative. This study uses a survey design with a quantitative approach. The sampling method used is a simple random technique. A total of 100 engineering students from polytechnics were involved in this study. The data is analysed based on inferential statistic. The results showed that planned strategy in problems solving can be influenced by students' attitudes. Besides that, student attitude contributes to student initiative level. Strategy is also associated with initiative in mastering problem solving

Implementation of Vocational College Lecturers Teaching Practice in Construction Technology Program

The research was conducted to identify practical teaching practices among lecturers of Construction Technology in Vocational College Malaysia. This research uses quantitative methods (questionnaires) and is supported by interview methods and observations for data collection and subsequently determines the answers to the identified research problems. There are three teaching practice components, namely pre-teaching practice, practice during teaching, and post-practice practice. The elements contained in the pre-teaching component of the lesson are the preparation of lesson plans, the provision of teaching aids and the preparation of lesson content. The current practice element of teaching is the teaching method and the element of post-practice practice is training and evaluation. The respondents involved were 46 Construction Technology lecturers at six Vocational College. The data obtained through pilot studies have been tested and demonstrated the reliability of Alpha Cronbach which is 0.819 high. An overview of the differences in pre-teaching practice, during teaching and post-lessons according to the experience and expertise category uses the T test with a significant level of 0.05. In overall, the findings show that all three components of pre-teaching practice, during teaching and post-teaching are at a high level. The findings also showed that there were no significant differences in pre-teaching practices, teaching and post-lectures based on the experience and expertise categories of lecturers.   &nbsp

Assessment Practices for Competency based Education and Training in Vocational College, Malaysia

AbstractVocational and Education Training (VET) aimed at providing the labour market with skills in the sub-professional level and no more second-class education. Rebranding vocational school to Vocational College (VC) is a major transformation in vocational education in Malaysia. Among the features that are emphasized in this transition is the method of learning in an environment of Competency Based Education and Training and the change from conventional to authentic assessment. Therefore this study is to identify what forms of assessment being undertaken by vocational teachers in order to meet the demands of CBET and authentic assessment. Three teachers in the field of electrical and electronics engineering were interviewed to identify what practices has been used in the assessment. Since the implementation of VC is very new, findings shown that certain assessment process still in traditional way and need improvement

Peranan sektor pelancongan dalam meningkatkan pendapatan golongan wanita Orang Asli

Masalah kemiskinan merupakan masalah utama yang membelenggu komuniti Orang Asli sejak dahulu lagi. Sektor pelancongan merupakan satu sektor yang dapat menyumbangkan pendapatan kepada golongan ini tanpa perlu mengeluarkan modal yang besar. Peranan golongan wanita di dalam proses pembangunan masyarakat dilihat sebagai satu jalan penyelesaian yang holistik di mana mereka dilihat mampu menyumbang kepada kemajuan dan pembangunan masyarakat dan negara. Melalui sektor pelancongan, wanita dalam kalangan orang asli mampu memasarkan produk, kemahiran dan kebolehan mereka melalui penghasilan kraftangan dan persembahan kebudayaan.. Kajian dilakukan secara kualitatif dengan memberi tumpuan kepada wanita dari suku kaum Mah Meri di Kampung Sungai Bumbun, Pulau Carey, Selangor. Lokasi ini dipilih kerana pengembangan, penyediaan kemudahan dan pemusatan aktiviti pelancongan banyak dilaksanakan di sini. Responden yang dipilih telah terlibat secara aktif dalam penghasilan kraftangan dan aktiviti kebudayaan. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan sektor pelancongan mampu membawa perubahan yang besar di mana golongan wanita suku kaum orang asli Mah Meri dapat meningkatkan pendapatan mereka berbanding sebelum menyertai sektor ini. Melalui kajian ini, diharapkan dapat memberi gambaran yang jelas berkaitan peranan sektor pelancongan dalam meningkatkan pendapatan golongan wanita Orang Asli

Comparative Study Between Malaysia and Indonesia: Differences of Teaching and Learning Methods (Theory-Based) Used by Engineering TVET Teachers

This study was conducted to generate empirical evidence of the differences of teaching and learning methods used by engineering TVET teachers of Malaysia and Indonesia. This study applied quantitative method that involved data collection through the newly developed instrument of teaching and learning strategies. A survey technique was used as the research design in which a total of 183 teachers from Malaysia-Indonesia vocational institutions were involved in this research. The results have shown that there were similarities and differences of the method used by the teachers. There are several teaching and learning methods used by Malaysian and Indonesian respectively. Meanwhile, there is one similar method used by both countries which is practicing. In conclusion, Vocational Pedagogy plays a crucial role in this context, and this is why the teaching and learning is very important in educating young Malaysian and Indonesian to become successful technical and vocational trainers, instructors and teachers

Pembangunan kerangka keupayaan di peringkat komuniti ke arah kelestarian pelancongan berasaskan komuniti (community based tourisme) di Malaysia

Keupayaan komuniti merupakan elemen penting dalam memastikan kelestarian pembangunan homestay. Kegagalan program homestay dikaitkan dengan ketidakupayaan komuniti dari apek pengetahuan, kemahiran, kepimpinan dan sokongan masyarakat. Sehubungan itu, kajian berbentuk kuantitatif dengan menggunakan borang soal selidik sebagai instrument utama bagi proses pengumpulan data. Selain daripada itu, temubual separa berstruktur dijalankan ke atas pengerusi homestay dan ketua kampung bagi mengukuhkan dapatan yang berbentuk kuantitatif. Bilangan sampel kajian adalah seramai 140 orang yang membabitkan enam buah homestay dalam Koridor Ekonomi Pantai Timur. Pengumpulan data mentah dianalisis menggunakan Statistical for Social Science (SPSS) 26 for Windows manakala data temu bual dianalisis berdasarkan tema. Analisis data yang dijalankan adalah menggunakan analisis deskriptif dan ujian Anova. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan masyarakat mempunyai persepsi kefahaman yang sederhana dari aspek penjanaan ekonomi. Manakala, tahap kesediaan dari aspek pengetahuan, kemahiran, kepimpinan dan sokongan masyarakat yang secara keseluruhan berada pada tahap sederhana. Kesimpulannya, kajian ini telah menggambarkan penglibatan komuniti dalam pembangunan program homestay dipengaruhi oleh keupayaan diri ahli komuniti itu sendiri

Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

Background: In an era of shifting global agendas and expanded emphasis on non-communicable diseases and injuries along with communicable diseases, sound evidence on trends by cause at the national level is essential. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) provides a systematic scientific assessment of published, publicly available, and contributed data on incidence, prevalence, and mortality for a mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive list of diseases and injuries. Methods: GBD estimates incidence, prevalence, mortality, years of life lost (YLLs), years lived with disability (YLDs), and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) due to 369 diseases and injuries, for two sexes, and for 204 countries and territories. Input data were extracted from censuses, household surveys, civil registration and vital statistics, disease registries, health service use, air pollution monitors, satellite imaging, disease notifications, and other sources. Cause-specific death rates and cause fractions were calculated using the Cause of Death Ensemble model and spatiotemporal Gaussian process regression. Cause-specific deaths were adjusted to match the total all-cause deaths calculated as part of the GBD population, fertility, and mortality estimates. Deaths were multiplied by standard life expectancy at each age to calculate YLLs. A Bayesian meta-regression modelling tool, DisMod-MR 2.1, was used to ensure consistency between incidence, prevalence, remission, excess mortality, and cause-specific mortality for most causes. Prevalence estimates were multiplied by disability weights for mutually exclusive sequelae of diseases and injuries to calculate YLDs. We considered results in the context of the Socio-demographic Index (SDI), a composite indicator of income per capita, years of schooling, and fertility rate in females younger than 25 years. Uncertainty intervals (UIs) were generated for every metric using the 25th and 975th ordered 1000 draw values of the posterior distribution. Findings: Global health has steadily improved over the past 30 years as measured by age-standardised DALY rates. After taking into account population growth and ageing, the absolute number of DALYs has remained stable. Since 2010, the pace of decline in global age-standardised DALY rates has accelerated in age groups younger than 50 years compared with the 1990–2010 time period, with the greatest annualised rate of decline occurring in the 0–9-year age group. Six infectious diseases were among the top ten causes of DALYs in children younger than 10 years in 2019: lower respiratory infections (ranked second), diarrhoeal diseases (third), malaria (fifth), meningitis (sixth), whooping cough (ninth), and sexually transmitted infections (which, in this age group, is fully accounted for by congenital syphilis; ranked tenth). In adolescents aged 10–24 years, three injury causes were among the top causes of DALYs: road injuries (ranked first), self-harm (third), and interpersonal violence (fifth). Five of the causes that were in the top ten for ages 10–24 years were also in the top ten in the 25–49-year age group: road injuries (ranked first), HIV/AIDS (second), low back pain (fourth), headache disorders (fifth), and depressive disorders (sixth). In 2019, ischaemic heart disease and stroke were the top-ranked causes of DALYs in both the 50–74-year and 75-years-and-older age groups. Since 1990, there has been a marked shift towards a greater proportion of burden due to YLDs from non-communicable diseases and injuries. In 2019, there were 11 countries where non-communicable disease and injury YLDs constituted more than half of all disease burden. Decreases in age-standardised DALY rates have accelerated over the past decade in countries at the lower end of the SDI range, while improvements have started to stagnate or even reverse in countries with higher SDI. Interpretation: As disability becomes an increasingly large component of disease burden and a larger component of health expenditure, greater research and developm nt investment is needed to identify new, more effective intervention strategies. With a rapidly ageing global population, the demands on health services to deal with disabling outcomes, which increase with age, will require policy makers to anticipate these changes. The mix of universal and more geographically specific influences on health reinforces the need for regular reporting on population health in detail and by underlying cause to help decision makers to identify success stories of disease control to emulate, as well as opportunities to improve. Funding: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 licens