Influences of Organizational Culture On The Use of Computers in Introductory Physics Courses

Kajian etnografik ini bertujuan mengkaji pengaruh budaya organisasi institusi pengajian tinggi terhadap penggunaan komputer dalam pengajaran kursus-kursus pengantar fizik. Kajian 1n1 dijalankan di Amerika Syarikat di sebuah universiti yang terkenal dalam penyelidikan dan di sebuah kolej kommuniti yang mementingkan pengajaran. Hasil kajian ini menunjukkan komputer digunakan lebih meluas di kolej kommuniti berbanding dengan di universiti berkenaan. Budaya organisasi didapati mempengaruhi pensyarah-pensyarah di institusi-institusi berkenaan samada menggunakan komputer dalam pengajaran kursus-kursus pengantar fizik atau tida

Publication Trends in Physics Education: A Bibliometric study

A publication trend in Physics Education by employing bibliometric analysis leads the researchers to describe current scientific movement. This paper tries to answer "What do Physics education scientists concentrate in their publications?" by analyzing the productivity and development of publications on the subject category of Physics Education in the period 1980--2013. The Web of Science databases in the research areas of "EDUCATION - EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH" was used to extract the publication trends. The study involves 1360 publications, including 840 articles, 503 proceedings paper, 22 reviews, 7 editorial material, 6 Book review, and one Biographical item. Number of publications with "Physical Education" in topic increased from 0.14 % (n = 2) in 1980 to 16.54 % (n = 225) in 2011. Total number of receiving citations is 8071, with approximately citations per papers of 5.93. The results show the publication and citations in Physic Education has increased dramatically while the Malaysian share is well ranked

Academic promotion in Malaysian public universities: a critical look at issues and challenges

The expansion and transformation of Malaysian universities have generated major changes in the nature of academic employment and the structure of academic promotion in higher education institutions. These changes have considerable implications, in particular for the policy and practice of academic promotion in the public universities. We argue that despite sharing one common grade and salary system, distinct and significant differences exist in the academic promotion systems of the public universities. Drawing on one recent study on the academic promotion process in Malaysian public universities to contextualise our discussion, this paper highlights the complexity in the promotion process in these institutions. It also discusses and articulates the attendant issues and challenging aspects of the academic promotion process. We argue that the interrelated issues and challenges, and certain academic practices and habits stemming from the pressure to gain a promotion are pervasive, and that they affect the academic value system and work culture. We conclude by asserting the importance of applying a consistent standard for promotion within a single salary system and that the academic promotion system in the public universities should ultimately affirm and communicate core academic values, and also aim at obtaining evidence of excellent accomplishments

SELF-EFFICACY, SCIENTIFIC REASONING, AND LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT IN THE STEM PROJECT-BASED LEARNING LITERATURE

The main goal of education is to prepare students for future job opportunities and civic responsibilities, and this is one of the biggest challenges in the 21st century. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Project-Based Learning (PjBL) prepare students to master their new role as a global citizen with greater responsibilities. This systematic review analyzed 265 papers that are related to the STEM PjBL. The papers were collected from well-known databases such as Web of Science® and SCOPUS by using the quality assessment and relevant criteria. This study inspected the top 48 distinguished papers by covering three dimensions, Search result, Subject, and Research methodology. STEM and PjBL come together, due to the natural overlap between the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and PjBL. The fully integrated STEM with PjBL can increase the effectiveness of teaching. Nonetheless, this inspection uncovered that previous research has not fully integrated STEM with PjBL. Thus, despite the wealth of existing research, there are still significant opportunities for future research on STEM PjBL in high schools to prepare students for 21st century challenges.Keywords: Enhanced teaching and learning, 21st century skills, project-based learning STEM, systematic literature reviewsCite as: Jamali, S.M., Md Zain, A.N., Samsudin, M.A., & Ebrahim, N.A. (2017). Self-efficacy, scientific reasoning, and learning achievement in the STEM project-based learning literature. Journal of Nusantara Studies, 2(2), 29-43.  http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jonus.vol2iss2pp29-4

The Effect of STEM Project Based Learning on Self-Efficacy among High-School Physics Students

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Project-Based Learning (PjBL) is increase effectiveness, create meaningful learning and influence student attitudes in future career pursuit. There are several studies in the literature reporting different aspects of STEM into a PjBL pedagogy. However, the effect of implementing STEM PjBL in terms of improving students’ skills in self-efficacy levels in physics mechanics at high school level has not been demonstrated as expected in the previous literature. This study followed a quasi-experimental research method. Bandura’s social cognitive theory is used to assess and compare the effect of STEM PjBL with conventional teaching method on students’ self-efficacy level in learning physics among over 100 high school students. The result illustrated that STEM PjBL improve students’ self-efficacy to solve physics problem. Also, the study proposes a guideline for future research

Visualization Skills Among Engineering Students Using Problem Based Learning Fogarty Model

Engineering Drawing subject’s offered to all students who are enrolled in the civil engineering, electrical engineering or mechanical engineering. These subjects develop skills in geometry drawing more professional. For the concept in Engineering Drawing, students need to have good visualization skills. Visualization is needed to help students get a start before translating into a drawing. To train these skills, a Problem Based Learning (PBL) approach will be implemented. The problem solving process repeatedly attempts to help the student correctly and accurately interpret the drawings of the engineering drawing. The process of learning using PBL method are specifically follow PBL Fogarty Model. This study examined readiness of visualization skills among engineering students through PBL Fogarty Model approach. A total of 68 students of engineering from institutions in Malaysia are involved in this study. The instruments used are Space Ability Test adapted from Bennett, Seashore and Wesman (1972). The findings show that students have a good level of visualization skills. As a result, the more individual a person achieves a good visual cognitive level, the easier it is to master the knowledge, ideas and approaches of the new learning method

Publication Trends in Physics Education: A Bibliometric study

A publication trend in Physics Education by employing bibliometric analysis leads the researchers to describe current scientific movement. This paper tries to answer “What do Physics education scientists concentrate in their publications?” by analyzing the productivity and development of publications on the subject category of Physics Education in the period 1980–2013. The Web of Science databases in the research areas of “EDUCATION - EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH” was used to extract the publication trends. The study involves 1360 publications, including 840 articles, 503 proceedings paper, 22 reviews, 7 editorial material, 6 Book review, and one Biographical item. Number of publications with “Physical Education” in topic increased from 0.14 % (n = 2) in 1980 to 16.54 % (n = 225) in 2011. Total number of receiving citations is 8071, with approximately citations per papers of 5.93. The results show the publication and citations in Physic Education has increased dramatically while the Malaysian share is well ranked

Establishment of Institutional Policies to Support the Internationalization Process: The Case of Malaysian Research Universities

Abstract International student mobility is not a recent phenomenon as students have been studying in other countries since 600BC. This paper focuses on institutional policies that are in placed in the Malaysian higher learning institutions to support academic success of international students. Astin's theory (1984, 1993, 1999) is adopted to link the idea of institutional policies and international student's academic success. In practical terms, Malaysian research universities are chosen due to their elite status to illustrate the institutional policies that are embedded in these universities

Physics Achievement in STEM PjBL: A Gender Study

International audienceToday's learners will face increasing global competition for college entrance and jobs after graduation. They need to succeed in work, life and citizenship, as well as skills that are necessary for 21st century. Teaching and learning’s in the 21st century has to put the emphasis on the 4Cs, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, and communication in the gender equality environments. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Project Based Learning (PjBL) provides students to learn 4Cs skills. However, the role of gender in STEM PjBL is not clear well. So, this experimental study, run a project within an experimental group of 50 students and compare with another 57 students in the control group by employing Mixed-Design ANOVA, to evaluate changes in achievement performance differences between the genders?. We observe there were not significant differences in performance of girls and boys in the high school by running a project and measuring students’ achievement. Future study should cover the effect of gender differences on the STEM PjBL teaching method in the high school for preparing students for 21st century challenges in a broad range

Brain type- a cross cultural constant of motivation to learn science?

Sex is considered to be one of the most significant factors influencing attitudes towards science. However, the so-called brain type approach from cognitive science (Baron-Cohen, Knickmeyer, & Belmonte, 2005) suggests that the difference in motivation to learn science does not primarily differentiate the girls from the boys, but rather the so-called systemisers from the empathizers. Boys are, on average, more motivated to learn science, not because they are boys but because boys tend to be systemizers, and vice versa for girls.Previous research on Swiss students (Zeyer & Wolf, 2010; Zeyer, Bölsterli, Brovelli & Odermatt, in press) has shown full mediation between sex and motivation to learn science, measured by the Science Motivation Quotient SMQ (Glynn & Koballa, 2007). The present study was conducted in order to confirm this relation in a cross-cultural study. It involved four countries (Malaysia, Slovenia, Switzerland, and Turkey) and 1100 students in upper secondary level. The study used structural equation modelling in order to test the hypothesised relationship. The results confirm the full mediation of systemizing between sex and motivation to learn science. The results are stable and the model fit is excellent. Systemizing explains 27% of the motivation to learn science. The indirect impact of sex on motivation is significant but low. The results are invariant across all four cultures. It is therefore concluded that students’ brain type, seen as a basic cognitive personal trait, is more important as a predicator for motivation to learn science than sex. It should be taken into account both in science teaching and research of science education