Laboratory manual: practical biology BIO0401

This is the Laboratory Report Practical Biology BIO0401 for Practical Biology course. Practical Biology is one of the courses offered by the Department of Biology, CFS IIUM. This laboratory report is intended for students to develop laboratory techniques and skills at the foundation level. The skills are required for the students to have the ability to carry out experiments and present findings scientifically and also to prepare and equip the students to pursue their study at the undergraduate level. This laboratory manual is organized into ten chapters. The experiments are designed to enhance students' knowledge and understanding of biology and biological issue thus the experiments are related to topics in Biology 1 and Biology 2 courses

Laboratory report: practical biology BIO0401

This is the Laboratory Report Practical Biology BIO0401 for Practical Biology course. Practical Biology is one of the courses offered by the Department of Biology, CFS IIUM. This laboratory report is intended for students at Foundation level to complete the report for each experiment

Discovering your body system

Discovering Your Body System is targeted to a wide range of readers,from the general public to university students. The presentation of the entire content is injected with some fun elements such as colourful figures, diagrams, illustrations, cartoon sketches, fun activities/experiments, photos, tables and misconceptions. These elements are to enhance the effectiveness of the text materials and facilitate the learning process. Readers can try out the simple yet fun activities/experiments with their family and friends to explore the biology concepts. The writing style is informal and relaxed and the contents are presented with a clear and simple sentences. New terms are carefully defined in a simple explanation. The concept and idea of the book is intended to make the reading materials more appealing and enjoyable to the readers. The materials covered in this book are fundamental topics in Human Physiology or Biology. The main objective of this book is to provide the readers with a logical, succinct and interesting presentation of physiology/biology concepts through exciting and different approaches. Readers are provided with interesting information and facts related to the human body system. The readers are encouraged by the authors to explore their body systems and try grasping the biology concepts in a fun way. This book can also act as an important guide and source for different level of students; SPM, STPM, Matriculation, A-level or university students. Students may find this book useful in their process of learning Biology. This may help them to strengthen their understanding and comprehension of some topics in Biology

Biological science students’ microscopy skills

Fail to get the correct and accurate image of the prepared slide observed under low or high magnification always become the main obstacle for biological science students in doing Biology Laboratory session. Mastery microscope skills not only enable the students to make accurate observation in few experiments of Practical Biology but the skills also significant to be applied for future related sciences subject in Kuliyyah. Through this study, Biological Science student’s microscopy skills and the validity of checklist used in microscopy skill test the has been explored. 22 items (S1-S22) in checklist of Microscopy skill test are groups into 4 themes, pre-observation, manipulation, knowledge, and maintenance give dichotomous score. The data was analysed with SPSS (IBM SPSS version 25) for descriptive analysis. Item statistic, item polarity and item infit was evaluated by Rasch analysis with use Winsteps software (Boone 2017). Descriptive analysis from SPSS have shown no missing values and frequencies for every skill. High frequencies of ‘not score’ or ‘0’ value were shown for skill22 (S22), S15, S16, S17 and S19. Through split case data from SPSS have shown frequencies of ‘not score’ based on students’ programme. Rasch analysis on 22 items of checklist had shown 0.84 items reliability with separation 2.31. From fit analysis, items in the checklist have shown Infit mnsq value between 0.85-1.15 which is within threshold 0.4-1.4 (Kreijns 2020) are conform to the Rasch model (fit to measure 1 construct 1 trait). Items in the checklist had been arranged into series of difficulty level based on value of measure and items with point measure correlation < 0.3 will be further investigate. The outcome of this study has triggers department Biology to make effective modification on biology lab manual on Microscopy 1 to become more understandable in order to assist students learning. Progressive action should be taken to amend specific items in the microscopy checklist as to make the checklist become better summative instrument

Practical biology laboratory manual and report

This laboratory manual is organized into ten chapters. Each chapter is provided with a worksheet, which is to be used by the students to report the experimental results. The experiments are designed to enhance students’ knowledge and understanding of biology and biological issues thus the experiments are related to topics in Biology 1 and Biology 2 courses

Biology 1 (bio0415) workbook

Biology I (Bio415) Workbook for BIO0415 course. This book is specially written for foundation students taking Biology at Centre for Foundation Studies, IIUM. The purpose of this workbook is to provide students with exercises to help them understand topics in Biology This Biology I Workbook consists of multiple-choice questions and structure questions for 14 chapters. Answer schemes and feedbacks are provided at the end of each chapter as guidance for the students to understand the concepts. The questions in each chapter were tested on students and moderated to confirm the validity

Biology 1 workbook

This Biology I Workbook for Biology I course is specially written for foundation students taking Biology I at Centre for Foundation Studies, IIUM. The purpose of this workbook is to provide students with exercises to help them understand topics in Biology I. This Biology I Workbook consists of multiple-choice questions and structure questions for 13 chapters. Answer schemes and feedbacks are provided at the end of each chapter as guidance for the students to understand the concepts. The questions in each chapter were tested on students and moderated to confirm the validity