This study aims to identify the level of 'Environmental Literacy' among students in Sabah. The sample
consisted of 110 respondents who were randomly selected among form 5 students in a secondary
school in Tawau district, Sabah. A quantitative approach with a survey technique was used in this
study. The descriptive data obtained indicate that the level of sustainable development element in
Environmental Literacy is higher than other elements in this construct. This data also shows the level
of Environmental Literacy respondents are at high level (mean score = 4.20, SP = 0.30). While the ttest
showed there was no significant difference in environmental literacy among secondary school
students on the basis of gender although the mean difference showed that female students were more
than male students. In conclusion, the level of environmental literacy for students is at a acceptable and
respondents agreed that the elements of sustainable development incorporated in the definition of
'Environmental Literacy'.
This study is aimed at identify the influence of teachers' readiness towards 21st century classroom
management among secondary school teachers in Sabah, Malaysia. The non-experimental study
utilised the survey method by combining several variable sampling techniques to obtain samples. Data
was collected through a set of adapted questionnaires administered to 439 teachers. Descriptive
analysis shows teachers’ readiness and 21st century classroom management being practised at a high
level. One-way ANOVA test results show that there is no significant difference in teachers’ readiness
and 21st century classroom management based on teaching experience. Meanwhile, multiple regression
analysis shows that there is a significant influence of teachers' readiness towards 21st century classroom
management. The findings show that the overall contribution predicted by teachers' readiness towards
21st century classroom management is 27.8 percent. Implications and recommendations for further
studies are also discussed.
This study is aimed at identify the influence of teacher’s teaching toward quality of teachers’ teaching
among rural primary school teachers in Sabah, Malaysia. The study utilised the servey method by
combining several variable sampling techniques to obtain samples. A total of 380 respondents were
involved in answering the questionnaire. Descriptive analysis shows teachers’ teaching and quality of
teachers’ teaching being practised at a high level. While a One-way ANOVA test results show that
there is no significant difference in teachers’ teaching and quality teachers’ teaching based on teaching
experience. In the same study, multiple regression analysis also implemented. The findings show that
the overall contribution predicted by teachers’ teaching towards quality teachers’ teaching is 24.8
percent.
The purpose of this study is to determine the strength of the school's organizational climate
influences, which includes four dimensions: collegial leadership, teacher professionalism,
academic emphasis and community involvement on metacognition awareness among teachers
that working in primary schools in the Northern Island Zone of Sabah. Using a quantitative
approach, this study is based on an ‘ex post facto’ study design. The data were collected
through questionnaire instrument by using the "School Climate Index" (SCI) and
"Metacognitive Awareness Inventory for Teacher" (MAIT). Through the purposive sampling
design, a total of 151 teachers that teaching at 14 primary schools in the island zone were
involved in this study. Descriptive and inference statistics were used to analyze the data and to present the findings of the study. The data were analyzed by using Multiple Regression
Analysis. The findings show that the level of school organization climate (M = 4.15, SD = .40)
and teachers' metacognition awareness (M = 4.11, SD = .40) are at a high and positive level.
The results of the multiple regression analysis showed that two dimensions of the constructs of
the school organization climate : colegial leadership (β = .293, t = 3.536, p
This study looks at the impact on program management on social interaction in outdoor education programs at Sabah Co-Curriculum Center. This quantitative study uses questionnaire instruments. A total of 113 respondents were involved in the west coast of Sabah. The findings show that mean scores for program management and social interaction levels are high. While the correlation results showed a significant but modest positive relationship (r = 0.469 , k
Workers who experience job dissatisfaction tend to lose their joy and happiness in their work that leads to low motivation, performance, commitment and eventually results in leaving their job. This brings long term negative effects to the organization and provides opportunity for rivalry. Hence, a study on the practice of healthy and positive organizational climate need to be carried out to increase the level of the teachers' job satisfaction to enhance the performance of the organization. Recent studies in organizational climate which involve four dimensions namely collegial leadership, professional teacher behaviour, achievement press and institutional vulnerability portrays the potential in influencing the teachers' job satisfaction. This study delves into the influence of these four dimensions in organizational climate towards the teachers' job satisfaction in the aspects of promotion, pay, supervision, working procedures and co-workers. This study is based on the Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire (OCDQ) by Hoy, Smith and Sweetland (2002) to measure the organization climate and the combination of two instruments of questionnaire to measure job satisfaction which are Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS) by Spector (1985) and Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) by Weiss, Dais, England and Lofquist (1967). Quantitative analysis is done using IBM SPSS Statistics Version 24 towards 50 academic teachers in the Form Six centres. The findings show that organization climate in particular has a significant influence towards job satisfaction among the academic teachers in the Form Six Centres. The mean scores of job satisfaction and the organizational climate were at a moderate level, but job satisfaction based on teaching experience is at a high level, and there was no significant differences between gender.
The higher learning institution especially private college is growing day by day with the variation of
course especially for the culinary art students. Culinary Arts is one area in Technical Vocational
Education and Training (TVET) where students need to adapt the real-world working as a chef besides
fundamental subject matter knowledge, techniques and hands-on skills for cooking in order to survive
in the industry. The course syllabus of culinary art is patterned to provide a stage for students who want
to be a chef in the future. This study is looking forward to find the importance of internship in Kolej
Yayasan Pelajaran Johor towards culinary art students. The internship is gradually enhancing the
student knowledge, confidence level and performance which enable them to be more confident when
coming back from internship. This positive indication and feedback may affect towards students,
lecturers, private institutional itself and Ministry of Higher Education.
This article discusses the impact of plurality on Malaysia-Singapore relations after the formation of
Malaysia on September 16, 1963. The establishment of the Federation of Malaysia agreement was
signed in London on July 8, 1963 by the representatives of the British government, the Federation of
Malaya, Singapore, Sabah and Sarawak. All parties agreed to the change in name from Federation of
Malaya to Malaysia. The declaration of Malaysia was made on September 16, 1963 simultaneously
throughout the country. This study uses secondary sources and library research methods. The findings
show that Singapore's existence in Malaysia was seen to have raised racial issues leading to the
separation of Singapore from Malaysia on August 9, 1965. Ethnic-related problems need to be
addressed wisely in order to not be a threat to racial relations among the plural society in Malaysia.
This article is aimed to research and to know the impact of personality, skill, core competent level professional training and transformation strategy as professional practice by the administrator towards teachers’ commitment in secondary school in Sabah. The country needs education system transformation and the school admins are seen to be the vital element in developing a High Performance School in facing the challenge of the 21st century. The research framework is based on the Northhouse Main Leadership Model Trait (2003, 2007), School Leadership Competency IAB (2009), Katz Three Model Skills (1974), Effective Leadership Framework by Strike, Sims, Mann and Whilhite (2016) and Teachers Commitment (Danneta, 2002). Qualitative research design is used with stratified random sampling with 1440 samples from 30 urban secondary schools and 30 rural secondary schools. The instrument used in this research is a set of questionnaire that was set by the researcher based on the observation and literature review. The finding of the research is hoped to give the best innovation strategy to prepare and to produce a highly qualified principal or headmaster to lead the school organization and to ensure the success of the National Education Development Plan (PPPM 2013-2025).
Keywords: leadership, teachers' comitment, national education development plan
Through this part the researcher introduces a sufficient analysis of Walker’s selected novels to reflect
the ill-treatment against black women in American society from 1970 to 1982. The researcher will
analyze Walker’s characters to offer a real justification of the racial oppression, cruelty, unkindness
and misery that most of African American women have been faced on the hand of the whites American
especially in the south. The researcher support and analyze this subject by trace the life of the main
characters that suffer from ill-treatment and racial oppression. The researcher analyzes these texts with
regard to black feminist critical theory, to discuss the main themes by tracing group of heroines who
live, represent and portray these topics through a contemporary black American author Alice Walker in
her selected novels, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian , The Color Purple . Referring to the
main themes in the statement of the problem and first research questions the researcher achieve that all
the characters of the novels are racially oppressed.
Present research investigated the impact of executive dysfunction on academic performance among
students in their middle childhood. It was hypothesized that school teacher’s rating of executive
dysfunction in students can significantly predict their performance in Mathematics and Science
subjects. The study used primary data which was collected from public schools of Lahore. An
indigenized executive dysfunction inventory was constructed for this purpose and psychometric
properties were established. It was postulated that student’s performance in Science and Math will vary
based on their executive dysfunction and the results attested to this hypothesis. Demographic properties
were also evaluated through age, number of siblings, gender, family system, and mother profession.
Statistical findings revealed that higher level of executive dysfunction is associated with lower level of
science and math performance.
The main purpose of this study is to understand the financial status of urban poor community in Kuala Lumpur and factors affecting their personal well-being. The sampling size of this research is 1,064 respondents chosen by using systematic sampling method. The data was obtained by using selfadministered questionnaires and the data being analysed by descriptive analysis meanwhile and multi regression analysis. The results shows that the urban poor community in Kuala Lumpur are having a moderate level of financial literacy possess a less effective financial behaviour, experiencing a high financial strain and adapting a moderate level of personal well-being. Besides that, the results also indicates that the financial literacy has no influence on personal well-being of the urban poor community, meanwhile financial behaviour has a positive influence and financial strain has a negative influence on the personal well-being of the urban poor community. The findings of the study suggest the government and non-government organisation such as Economic Planning Unit ((EPU), Kuala Lumpur City Hall (KLCH or DBKL), Central Bank of Malaysia (BNM), Credit Counselling and Debt Management Agency (CCDM or AKPK), Federation of Consumer Association (FOMCA) to make an inclusive effort and approach to improve the personal well-being of the urban poor. By understanding more about the financial status of the urban poor community, it is hoped to help them to become financial prudence and in the long-run could lead them into a good decision making while facing conflicts in financial issues and maintain a good quality of life. It is important to ensure the urban poor consumers have better financial management skills which lead them to make the right decision in order to enhance their personal well-being.
The purpose of the study was to evaluate the Post PT3 Program in a sub-urban secondary school
located in the district of Tuaran, Sabah. The program aims to encourage all the form three students’
attendance after they have taken the PT3 examination by occupying them with activities that would
enhance their learning ability outside the classroom. This study used Stake’s Countenance evaluation
model. The data were collected using observation, informal-interview and documentation techniques.
The conclusion was: (1) Intended antecedents congruent to the actual antecedents, minor issues in both
intended transaction/outcomes and actual transaction/ outcomes. (2) Post PT3 program worth to be
sustained with support from the administration and teachers (3) Evaluator’s major concerns are lack of
teachers’ participation and commitment in the implementation of the program.
This study is designed in qualitative form which focuses on musical coordination skill that is sing and
clapping rhythm simultaneously in meter . The researcher used one of music teaching method which
is Dalcroze Approach as an intervention in this study. Dalcroze Approach is a method which relates
musical concepts with movement. Research sample is among Year 4 students aged 10 years old from
different sex and race. Data have been collected through observation and interview. A comprehension
exam is conducted as a supplementary data collection. Findings show the students have achieved good
result in music coordination skill after the implementation of the Dalcroze Approach. Observation
revealed that all the students have increase their coordination skill in singing and clapping the rhythm simultaneously. Interview which is conducted on students found 60 percent of them are very confident
to do the skill as well. The result of comprehension exam shows 73 percent of students score A which
can be described as excellent. Researcher wish to have further study in developing the music
coordination skill by improving the intervention of the study.
The main purpose of this study is to determine the influence of structured leadership, teachers’ efficacy
and culture norms towards primary school teachers’ tasks of concern in Sarawak. This method involves
quantitative survey among 420 teachers comprising the head of subject panel. The instrument used were Leadership Orientations questionnaire adopted by Lokman et al., (2011) from Bolman and Deal
(1999), Teacher Efficacy (Meng Tian, 2008), School Culture Triage (Phillips, G. 1993) and Seven
Stages of Concern (Hall et al., 1977). Data were analyzed using SPSS version 15 and Amos version 21.
Analysis of mean scores, t-test, pearson correlation, regression analysis and path analysis were used to
test the hypothesis at significant level p
The purpose of this study is to identify the effectiveness of integrative therapy treatment towards
depression and aggression among prison inmates. Integrative therapy in this study refers to treatment
module which are consisted of four integrated theories in a counselling process. It involved the
combined therapy of Person Client Centred (PCC), Rational Emotions Behaviour Therapy (REBT)
and Choice Theory Reality Therapy (CTRT) as technical treatment. Meanwhile, Stimulus Organism
Response (SOR) act as educational principle or training. Integrative therapy is conducted on the
respondents for six session of group counselling. This study is a quasi-experiment involving 160 depressed prison inmates (80 treatment; 80 control) and 140 aggressive inmates (70 treatment; 70
control) from five prison institutions as the respondent for this study using purposive sampling.
Inmates are identified as respondents using high cutting point of depression using Beck Depression
Inventory (BDI) and high aggression using Aggressive Questionnaires (AQ). For the data analysis, nonparametric
test such as Mann-Whitney Test and Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test were used based on the
normality test using Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Shapiro-Wilk test. Result from the Mann-Whitney Test
shows that the treatment group had higher declining rate as compared to the controlled group for
depression and aggression. Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test also shows the same result as the treatment
group indicates a decline in rate from the pre and post of the treatment compared to the controlled
group. The results of this study are hope to act as the medium for using integrative model which is
rarely use in studies in this country especially in the field of treatment for prison inmates. It is also
expected that it can be applied in different setting which offer treatment service such as hospitals,
social work institution, police institute, schools, higher learning institutions and others.
The objective of this study is to identify the level of instructional leadership, efficacy and the routine
duties of the principal including their influence towards academic achievement of the school. Three
instrument have been used in the collection of data namely Principal Instruction Management Rating
Scale (PIMRS); Principals Sense Of Efficacy Scale (PSES); and The Principal’s Routine Duties.
Whilst the academic achievement statistic refers to the SPM examinations result for the 2011 that was
sourced directly from the JPNS examination unit. All the instruments was found to have a high level of
genuineness and reliability with Cronbach’s alfa multiplier at 0.94. Altogether 650 set of
questionnaires have been distributed to the secondary school in the southern zone namely Kuching,
Samarahan, Sri Aman and Betong Division and 91% of them have been collected successfully. From
the total number, 487 set have been processed after it was found to be complete and have fully satisfied
the set characteristics. The research data has been analysed using SPSS software version 21.0. The
result of the research shows that the level of instructional leadership, efficacy and the principal’s
routine duties are high. Nevertheless, there is no significant and clear relationship between those
variables with the school academic achievement. This shows that instructional leadership, efficacy and
principal routine duties are not factors that would absolutely determine the academic achievement
without the support of the other factors. Nonetheless, sub scale variable of the instructional leadership
namely coordinate curriculum (r=.123, p=.01) and incentive given to teachers (r=.094, p=.04) shows
that there is a significant relationship with the school academic achievement but not for the sub scale
for efficacy and principal’s routine duties. Arising thereof, the principal is advised to implement
capability enhancement, streamline interpersonal relationship, effective work delegation in
collaboration with their subordinate in order to attain a more positive academic achievement. For this
purpose, the principals are required at the outset to equip themselves by enhancing their knowledge,
garner more experience, increase skilfulness including keeping abreast with the latest ability related to
their duties as an instructional leader. In order words, the principal which lead the school should equip
their self with the current requirement including applying “Leadership For a Need” culture.
Conflicts that occur due to overlap between work and family matters are important topics in today’s
organizational context. Work-family conflict can be defined as a form of role conflict where the
demands of work and family cannot be aligned in several ways. Some previous studies have mentioned
that work-family conflicts negatively affect individuals such as emotional fatigue that ultimately lead
to stress and disturb the psychological well-being. From that perspective, social support can help to
reduce the stressful experience that is caused by work-family conflicts and improve the psychological
well-being.
There are two elements of social support originating from (1) work domain support; such
as organization, supervisor and co-workers whereas, (2) non-work domain supports: can come from
spouse, family members and friends. Thus, these two elements of social support seemed to be
important elements to ease the burden of stressful experience among employees especially in workfamily
conflict.
At the youth stage, they psychologically have their own strength which later will contribute to their self
potential. The Anugerah Remaja Perdana Rakan Muda (ARP) is a self development program which
prepares the youth in facing the adolescent and adulthood challenges and finds their own potentials. As
such, this study is to assess the youth’s social psychological construct which is the behaviour, as the
self development element in the ARP based on the Theory of the Planned Behaviour as the study
model. And, adapt the social psychology needs based on the youth potential development theory and
model which is in line with the needs of the youth today. Previous studies that have been conducted support these findings. Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) has been widely used in various studies to
predict the behaviour (Connere, Jones & Berg, 2010) in population include the youth (Baker
& White, 2010). The antecedent of the planned behaviour study focused on the formation of
attitudes in youth behaviour. This study has important implications to the theoretical, practical and
policy towards youth potential development program.
The awareness of the Muslim community on the importance of understanding breastfeeding according
to Islamic perspective needs to be emphasized in promoting the implementation of breastfeeding in the
best way. This proved that breast milk is the major food after birth and a mother should know the right
and the regulation of breastfeeding in order to be in line with Islamic law. This article aims to discuss
the level of awareness among the Muslim community in Selangor regarding breast milk donation. Data
were collected through a questionnaire distributed to 400 respondents involving three locations in
Selangor, namely in the northern zone (Hulu Selangor district), central zone (Klang district) and
southern zone (Sepang district). The findings showed that the respondents had a moderate level of
awareness regarding milk donation laws with average mean value of 3.26. This finding shows that the
Muslim community in Selangor are concerned about the rights and the regulation of breastfeeding.