Systematic literature review: implications of mental illness on life and working integrity

Mental health problems in society are becoming new and more distressing as explained by the Ministry of Health Malaysia and the World Health Organization. Mental problems occur amongst working adults, the elderly, adolescents and children, men and women. Recent research confirms that the causes of mental health problems are due to genetic problems, personal problems, financial problems, learning pressures and stress at workplace. The effects of mental health problems can lead to depression, emotional tension, personality disorder and suicide. In order to obtain a wealth of information, researchers have accompanied critical analysis studies by viewing at several empirically established from previous studies. The first finding shows that mental illness classified as a brain disorder, an emotional disorder and an abnormal attitude. The second finding explains that the level of mental health knowledge among students is still low. The third study examines the causes of schizophrenia, which have four causes of the disease, namely genetic factors, drugs, work stress and poverty. The fourth finding explains the experience of caring for a mentally ill person who is also having trouble in the life of the patient's family. Generally, this study explains that mental illness is a problem that has various negative effects on various people. Implications of mental illness transpire over the long term if treatment not properly performed. Therefore, proactive initiatives prerequisite to be taken by all parties to ensure the quality of life of the people will perfect and normal devoid of interruption of mental illness

E-learning for enhancing creative thinking among university students

This study was conducted to enhance the level of creativity among students from the School of Education, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia by using e-learning. The main purpose of this study is to probe into the effectiveness of e-learning developed by the researchers for enhancing creativity. This study also look into how the learning process of creative thinking takes place among higher institutions students. The e-learning uses has been developed using the integration of Problem-Based Learning methods and creativity problem solving model (CPS). The samples are undergraduate students from the Faculty of Education who was sampled using purposive sampling technique. This is a pre-experimental study using quantitative and qualitative approach where students answer 6 items for the pre-test before receiving the intervention and later answering the open-ended question for the post-test. The reliability of the instrument was measured using internal consistency technique. The minimum Cronbach Alpha value is set to be at 0.6. The time session of preliminary study was recorded and will be used during the actual study. To obtain the qualitative data, students had to discuss in the forum that will developed in e-learning to observe their learning analytic data. This study is expected to produce a creativity learning framework for tertiary education students

Pengetahuan Prinsip Kimia Hijau - Pencegahan, Atom Ekonomi dan Penggunaan Sumber Bahan Mentah Boleh Diperbaharui dalam Kalangan Murid Tingkatan 4 di Malaysia: Knowledge of Green Chemistry Principles - Prevention, Atom Economy, and the Use of Renewable Raw Materials among Form 4 Students in Malaysia

Abstrak: Kimia hijau merupakan satu pendekatan pembelajaran penting yang memberi pendidikan mengenai kelestarian alam sekitar melalui implimentasi 12 prinsip yang diperkenalkan sejak penghujung 1990an. Namun kejayaan pendekatan ini bergantung kepada tahap pengetahuan murid-murid terhadap ke semua prinsip yang terkandung dalam kimia hijau. Kajian ini bertujuan mengkaji tahap pengetahuan tiga prinsip kimia hijau dalam kalangan murid tingkatan empat yang mengambil mata pelajaran kimia di sekolah. Tiga prinsip tersebut ialah pencegahan, atom ekonomi dan penggunaan sumber bahan mentah daripada sumber yang boleh diperbaharui. Kajian berbentuk kualitatif dijalankan melibatkan 80 murid sekolah menengah. Satu set solan Ujian Pengetahuan _Kimia Hijau (UP_KH) di tadbirkan di dalam kajian ini. Data di analisis secara analisis kandungan.  Dapatan kajian menunjukkan pelajar memiliki pengetahuan yang rendah terhadap prinsip kimia hijau iaitu pencegahan , atom ekonomi dan penggunaan sumber bahan mentah daripada sumber tenaga yang boleh diperbaharui. Pengetahuan murid mengenai prinsip pencegahan adalah bersifat umum  untuk mencegah pencemaran alam sekitar. Ia memfokuskan tiga aspek umum iaitu tindakan undang-undang, kempen dan pengurusan sisa. Murid mempunyai pengetahuan yang rendah dalam prinsip atom ekonomi dan tidak dapat membuat perkaitan yang betul di antara nilai atom ekonomi dengan tahap keberkesanan suatu tindak balas. Pengetahuan murid juga didapati rendah mengenai sumber bahan mentah boleh diperbaharui dan kepentingan implimentasinya dalam sesuatu tindak balas kimia. Pengetahuan mengenai prinsip-prinsip  kimia hijau adalah sangat penting untuk memberi pendedahan awal kepada para pelajar mengenai kedah pencegahan peringkat awal bagi mengatasi masalah pencemaran alam sekitar.   Abstract: Green chemistry is an important learning approach that provides education on environmental sustainability through the implementation of 12 principles introduced since the late 1990s. However, the success of this approach depends on the level of students' knowledge of all the principles contained in green chemistry. This study aims to examine the level of knowledge of the three principles of green chemistry among fourth grade students who take chemistry subjects at school. The three principles are prevention, atom economy and the use of raw materials from renewable sources. A qualitative study was conducted involving 80 high school students. A set of questions for the Knowledge Test _Kimia Hijau (UP_KH) was administered in this study. The data was analyzed by content analysis. The findings of the study show that students have a low knowledge of the principles of green chemistry, namely prevention, atom economy and the use of raw materials from renewable energy sources. Students' knowledge of the principle of prevention is general to prevent environmental pollution. It focuses on three general aspects namely legal action, campaigning and waste management. Pupils have low knowledge in the principle of economic atoms and cannot make the correct connection between the value of economic atoms and the level of effectiveness of a reaction. Students' knowledge was also found to be low regarding renewable raw material sources and the importance of their implementation in a chemical reaction. Knowledge about the principles of green chemistry is very important to give early exposure to students about the need for early stage prevention to overcome environmental pollution problems

Development of computerize value stream system

Value stream mapping (VSM) was initially developed to use of the suite of tools to help researcher or practitioner to identify waste in individual value streams and find an appropriate method to its removal. The process itself is simple and straightforward is used to identify waste using lean manufacturing technique, determined causes of the waste through the value stream mapping method and to propose solution to improve workplace environment. In this project is made an attempt to computerize the process though the application of VSM. Computerize value stream system is basically a method which is an internet networking system combining traditional concept of value stream mapping method to be used at manufacturing company to reduce wastes. This paper summarizes the way to develop an internet, online and network based of an efficient computerize value stream system to improve operation value of the manufacturing company. This paper reviews the design of package that will replace the manual method of doing VSM. This package will be applied in a real shop floor environment

Critical review: assessing and seeking the intricacy or discrepancy of ulrich model transforming paradigm in organization human resource

"Human Resource (HR) transformation need to enlargement the influence in an organisation. Nonetheless, regard the admonition; change determinations that focus completely on improving human resource (HR) are bounce to fail. Dave Ulrich is the human resource founder and has qualified with evolving the human resource business mate, model and other dominant ideas in books including ""HR Champions"" and ""The HR Value Proposition"". Besides, Ulrich explains the six competencies HR be required to develop to accept the challenges of the worldwide economic crisis, globalisation, technological innovations and other change. His argument about Human resources rises to the people employed by an organization. Quantity the value of human resources verifies difficult due to lack of standard and traditional measures such as those related with permanent and liquid assets. For example, human resource cannot depreciate like physical resources, nor do they reflect the net value of an organization as financial resources accomplish. Human resources are just as important as physical and financial resources. Regrettably, organizational leaders and managers frequently overlook this actuality since human resources not used to reflect the organisation’s achievement.

Developing items using by pilot test, confirmatory factor analysis statistical in literacy for communication and supervision clinical elements provider

This research about the communication and supervision developments as an element in the future set of questionnaire. The set of questionnaire aspect need regarding medical learning of trainee doctor. The selected of two elements based on previous research, the theory and model support the importance of both. The researcher also use several of set a questionnaire from previous of research as adaptation process to create the elements and further the strength by validity testing via experts of study. A number of samples selected as respondents are 222 from 250 number of population. Referring on research objective achievement, the number of items has been changed after validity test. For the reliability test, all items after validity test selected are accepted. The confirmatory factor analysis has been shown that two items from communication elements and two items from supervision have been rejected. The final decision numbers of items in communication elements are eight, while in supervision are 12 items

Pembelajaran berasaskan masalah dalam sains: satu meta analisis

Pembelajaran berasaskan masalah (PBM) merupakan salah satu pendekatan pembelajaran konstruktivis (Alias & Saleh, 2007) yang menekankan penglibatan pelajar secara aktif sepanjang proses pembelajaran (Yeung, 2010) manakala guru bertindak sebagai fasilitator dalam membimbing pelajar mencapai objektif pembelajaran dan pengajaran (PdP) yang telah ditetapkan. Pendekatan pembelajaran ini menggunakan masalah berasaskan kepada situasi sebenar (real-world), bersifat kompleks (Wirkala & Kuhn, 2011), tidak berstruktur (Savin-Baden & Kay, 2006) dan tiada penyelesaian yang spesifik (Hmelo-Silver, 2004) bagi merangsang pelajar mengaplikasikan kemahiran berfikir aras tinggi seperti pemikiran kritis dan kemahiran penyelesaian masalah (Rissi, 2010; Sungur, Tekkay & Geban, 2006). Berbeza dengan pendekatan pembelajaran konvensional yang menekankan pembelajaran berbentuk hafalan, pendekatan PBM merangsang minda pelajar dengan cara mengemukakan masalah pada awal sesi pembelajaran (Hung, 2009). Masalah tersebut akan mecetuskan konflik di dalam minda pelajar seterusnya meningkatkan perasaan ingin tahu serta mendorong pelajar berusaha dalam mencari penyelesaian kepada masalah yang diberi

Investigating Eleventh Graders' Critical Thinking Skills on Reaction Rate

Critical thinking skills are high-order thinking skills in which students are required to solve complex problems. The topic of reaction rate has conceptual knowledge, cognitive skills, and psychomotor skills that can be used to assess and develop students' critical thinking skills. This study aims to analyze the critical thinking skills of science eleventh graders on reaction rate. This research applies the survey research method. As the research instrument, it uses a critical thinking skills test on the reaction rate consisting of 27 multiple choice questions with a reliability of 0.756 by involving 153 public senior high school students. The authors develop this test. The results show that the average score of respondents’ critical thinking skills was 33.66 (low category). At the sub-skill level, the average score of respondents' skills in interpreting was 32.73 (low), analyzing was 29.04 (low), inferencing was 36.77 (low), evaluating was 24.61 (low), and explaining was 33.88 (low). This shows that the learning experiences of the students have not been able to develop their critical thinking skills. Therefore, this research suggests the need for a learning strategy that can be used to improve students' critical thinking skills

Pembelajaran terarah kendiri melalui pendekatan pembelajaran berasaskan masalah: pola kajian berkenaan beberapa artikel terpilih

Pembelajaran terarah kendiri merupakan antara elemen penting dalam implementasi pendekatan pembelajaran berasaskan masalah. Sehubungan itu, sebanyak tujuh artikel dipilih berdasarkan beberapa kriteria tertentu melalui pengkalan data ISI Web Of Science. Artikel-artikel tersebut dianalisis dalam menjawab tiga persoalan kajian iaitu (i) Apakah pemilihan sampel bagi kesemua kajian? (ii) Apakah pemilihan reka bentuk kajian yang digunakan dalam kesemua kajian?(iii) Apakah persamaan dan perbezaan intipati dan dapatan bagi kesemua kajian?Melalui analisis yang dijalankan didapati sebahagian besar kajian menggunakan reka bentuk kajian kes dan reka bentuk kajian eksperimen. Selain itu, pemilihan sampel bagi kebanyakan kajian tertumpu kepada pelajar jurusan perubatan serta fokus atau isu yang diketengahkan adalah dalam melihat faktor dan kesan implementasi pendekatan pembelajaran berasaskan masalah terhadap pembelajaran terarah kendiri

Blended problem based learning (BPBL): opportunities and challenges to be implemented in Malaysian context

One of the key objectives in the National Education Blueprint is to produce students with higher order thinking skills. The concern is raised based on the poor performances of Malaysian students in the international assessments of Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). One of the factors that might contribute to the decline in achievement is the teaching approach applied in Malaysian schools. A revolution in current teaching approach is thus needed. Problem based learning (PBL) is one of the teaching approach being widely implemented and is proven to be beneficial in stimulating students? higher order thinking skills through solving real-world problems. Similarly, the integration of technology during teaching and learning process such as online learning has also been proven to improve students? higher order thinking skill. Based on these foundations, the blended problem based learning (BPBL) that integrates face-to-face PBL and online learning platforms, is believed seems to be an effective teaching approach that can improve PBL and thus enhancing students? higher order thinking skill. This is due to BPBL offers the benefit of both face-to-face PBL and online learning. However, the studies in this area are still insufficient particularly in Malaysian schools? context. Thus, this paper is aimed at discussing on the opportunities and challenges faced in the implementation of BPBL in Malaysian context