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Fulltext The importance of intership in Kolej Yayasan Pelajaran Johor towards culinary art students

Adibah Aishah Md Sahak, Sakeenah Mohd Reza, Melor Md Yunus

Malaysian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2017;2(3):61-64.
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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.

Matched MeSH terms: Students
Fulltext Hubungan perfeksionisme, keperluan psikologi asas dan kesejahteraan psikologi dalam kalangan pelajar universiti di Sabah, Malaysia

Allya Cassandra A, Balan R, Alice A, Peter V

Jurnal Psikologi Malaysia, 2016;30:13-21.

Psychological well-being among students began to received attention and be seen as an important aspect in the life of an individual who are in primary, secondary or higher education institution. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the three subfactors of perfectionism, three sub-factors in basic psychological needs and psychological well-being among university students. Methodology of the research is based on a survey among 468 university students using questionnaires of Scales of Psychological Well-Being (SPWB), Almost Perfect Scale Revised (APS-R) and Basic Psychological Needs Scale (BPNS). The subjects consisted of 468 undergraduate students in University Malaysia Sabah. Data were analysed by using IBM Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21. The results showed a significant relationship between perfectionism, basic psychological needs and psychological well-being among university students. Implications and suggestions for future research are also discussed.

Matched MeSH terms: Students
Ekspresi emosi dan cara remaja mengawal emosi: satu kajian rintis

Nor SA, Nor HH, Rahimi CA

Jurnal Psikologi Malaysia, 2009;olume 23:39-47.

This study aims to identify the expression of emotions and how emotions are controlled by adolescents. The sample comprised three male and two female students who were from a secondary school located in Penang. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in this study. Transcribed contents of the interviews were analyzed. The main findings showed generally, adolescents like to have fun, seek to try something new, like to relax with friends, and they also follow their feelings. Female adolescents were found to be sensitive. Generally, adolescents indicated that they were more comforlable sharing problems with friends than with parents. Implications of findings area also discussed.

Matched MeSH terms: Students
Fulltext Factor structure of the student engagement instrument among Malaysian undergraduates

Mohammed Iman K, Harris Shah Abd H

Jurnal Psikologi Malaysia, 2016;30:1-12.

Student engagement has been known to be positively associated with academic performance, but there is no published valid measure for use among Malaysian undergraduates. This study seeks to examine the factor structure of the Student Engagement Instrument (SEI) in a Malaysian sample. The scale was administered to 290 undergraduate students from the Faculty of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences as well as the Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences of the International Islamic University of Malaysia. Principal axis factor with Promax rotation was used in exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and revealed a sixfactor solution that was consistent with the factor structure found in the original study. A new factor labelled belongingness which was not discussed in previous studies was also discovered, which is worth exploring.

Matched MeSH terms: Students
Fulltext Isu dan cabaran pelajar kurang upaya penglihatan di institusi pengajian tinggi

Raja Nur Fakhriah Raja Zainal B, Aizan Sofia A

Jurnal Psikologi Malaysia, 2018;32:131-145.

Education is one of the most important aspects for every individual including people with visual impairments. Visually impaired students also have the right to a good educational opportunity to higher education. In this regard, this article explores the issues and challenges of visually impaired students in higher learning institution. This study uses a full qualitative approach, a case study in the Klang Valley. In-depth interviews were used in data collection involving 5 students with visual impairment: four males and one female. The findings showed that among the major issues faced by visually impaired students pursuing higher education in tertiary institution were self-esteem, financial and public stigma. In addition, visually impaired students also faced challenges in accessibility, peer-to-peer acceptance and difficulties in learning at the university. In conclusion, this study emphasises on issues and challenges often faced by students with visual impairments at higher learning institution so that appropriate supports and facilities can be effectively provided by the university.

Matched MeSH terms: Students
Disciplinary problems among high achiever students: the types and the causes

Hairul NI, Kususanto P

Jurnal Psikologi Malaysia, 2015;olume 29:93-105.

This qualitative study has been done to 24 teachers and 72 students from various secondary schools in Penang, Malaysia, related to the effect of between class ability grouping (BCAG). Studies reported that BCAG triggered correspondence bias among teachers, which eventually affect them to show different perception and expectations towards high achiever classes (HAC) and low achiever classes (LAC) students. However, even teachers tend to expect HAC students not to be significantly involved in disciplinary problems; they still do, such as distrusting schoolteachers, paying less attention to in the classroom, doing external work during classes at school, and being blatantly arrogant to the teachers. Semi-structured interview have been utilized in order to collect the data, and two-cycled analyses method, namely In-Vivo and Thematic Analyses has been operated in order to analyze the massive amount of qualitative data. Findings of this study showed that the disciplinary problems among HAC are related to their self-esteem types due to locus of control difference, as well as bigger issues apart from the competition among themselves. School management system, BCAG itself, and reciprocal envy between HAC and LAC students, as well as their inclination towards tuition centers contributed to disciplinary problems among HAC students.

Matched MeSH terms: Students
Fulltext Quantitative study: assessing technological problem solving and thinking skills among primary school children

Anna F, Sabariah S, Wong WK, Muralindran M

Jurnal Psikologi Malaysia, 2018;32:136-146.

This program was conducted to analyze the effect of a robotic program in assessing technological problem solving among primary school children. The content in the learning module which contain technological problem solving and visible thinking activities has been going through expert validation before it were applied in this study. The instrument used to measure the technological problem solving is Technological Problem Solving Inventory (PSI-TECH). Quasi-experiments was implemented in this study, involving experimental and control group which were equal and homogeneous in selected characteristics. The robotic and basic visual coding program was conducted for 5 months, with an hour of lesson each week, consistent with the school syllabus and activities. Result obtained by collecting the data before and after the program, and quantitative analysis of t-test and MANOVA were used. Result had shown a significance positive value for the experimental group after the program. This study contributes in the field of education, in investigating the technological problem-solving skills among students. In addition, help to diversify the studies in the field of robotics.

Matched MeSH terms: Students
A study on the validity and reliability of basic needs questionnaire

Karen Wong MS, Ahmad Jazimin J

Jurnal Psikologi Malaysia, 2011;olume 25:38-43.

The aim of this study is to measure the validity and reliability standard of Basic Needs questionnaire designed by William Glasser. This study also attempts to determine if the Basic Needs questionnaire has the high validity and reliability criteria suitable to be applied in Malaysia. Five expert panels from the counseling discipline and 119 students from two different schools were chosen for group sampling. The instrument used in this study was the questionnaire with 85 items among 5 subscale category. The data was analyzed using cronbach alpha and test-retest analysis. The result showed that half of the items in this instrument were of significantly higher quality. In the first phase, the needs coefficient scores .885. and the second phase the coefficient scored is .899. In general, the result proves that this instrument possesses a high validity and reliability standard for application in Malaysia. Several implications and suggestions are also proposed.

Matched MeSH terms: Students
Fulltext Determination of elements (Cd, Cu, Fe, Pb and Zn) in Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Hostel Shah Alam, Malaysia

Nurzulaifa Shaheera Erne Mohd Yasim, Siti Khadijah Mat Yaacob, Noradila Mohamed

Science Letters, 2018;12(2):28-36.
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The purpose of this study is to determine the concentration of the selected elemental composition in a multi-storey hostel. Dust samples were taken from three random rooms at each level of the student hostel by sweeping the floor. The concentrations of elements (Cd, Cu, Fe, Pb and Zn) were determined by using Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectrometer (ICPOES) after digestion with nitric acid and sulfuric acid solutions. Dust samples analysis has shown the different levels of sampling point does not affect the concentration of the elements. The concentration of elements in investigated microenvironment was in the order of Fe > Zn > Cu > Pb > Cd. The correlation analysis was applied to elements variable in order to identify the sources of an airborne contaminant. It was discovered the strong positive correlation between Cu-Zn which indicates the sources come from traffic emission and street dust. This result was supported by the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) that revealed the presence of elements in the student hostel originated from the outdoor sources.

Matched MeSH terms: Students
Computer aided learning in undergraduate medical education

Sherina MS, Azlan HS

Family Physician, 2003;12:12-14.

The need to deliver teaching material in medical education using the internet is compelling in view of the many advantages that the internet provides. The internet has enabled organizations, in particular institutions of higher education to conduct various courses entirely electronically and without regard to physical geographical boundaries. The term CAL is used to denote the employment of the Internet for the delivery of teaching material, conduct of discussion, as;sessment of performance and interaction between students and teachers. This study reviews reports of the use and evaluation of Computer-Aided-Learning (CAL) in teaching various major disciplines in medicine.

Matched MeSH terms: Students
Appropriate cultural management as a technique to address early adolescent alcohol exposure

Pizzini N

Pediatr Int, 2020 02;62(2):251.
PMID: 32104989 DOI: 10.1111/ped.14090
Matched MeSH terms: Students
Comparison of prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections in school children in Kuala Limpur

Abdulla MA, Khairul Anuar A, Khalifa S, Salmah I, Suzainur Kulop AR, Md Nazmul HM, et al.

JUMMEC, 2002;7:118-121.

Matched MeSH terms: Students
Change in level of classroom lighting at a special education school distortion of vision and comparison of lighting at different lighting conditions

Wan Nur ‘Amirah Ibrahim, Zainora Mohammed, Norliza Mohamad Fadzil, Sumithira Narayanasamy, Mohd ‘Izzuddin Hairol

Sains Malaysiana, 2018;47:1835-1842.

Illumination is one of the important physical aspects that influences comfortability during learning session particularly
among visually impaired students. The purpose of this study was to determine changes in illumination level in classrooms
during learning session at Sekolah Menengah Pendidikan Khas (SMPK), Setapak. The second objective was to compare
the illumination level in the classrooms under three different lighting conditions: daylight only, with additional artificial
light and with removal of obstructions to daylight. Illumination levels in 17 classrooms was measured at one hour interval,
between 8 am to 1 pm for the first stage and 19 classrooms under three different lighting conditions from 11 am to 12 noon
for the second stage, using ILM1335 (ISO-TECH, Taiwan) digital luxmeter. Illumination level increased significantly from
8 am to 11 am (One-Way Repeated Measures ANOVA: F(2.14, 34.26)=76.49, p<0 .001) and was maximum at 1 pm. The
illumination level was highest for the condition of daylight with additional artificial light (One-Way Repeated Measures
ANOVA: F(2,34)=110.51, p<0.001) compared to other conditions. Illumination levels for daylight without obstruction
was significantly higher than daylight only (pairwise comparison: p=0.001). Classroom illumination level was lowest
in the early morning. However, classroom illumination can be increased either by removing the obstructions to daylight
or with additional artificial lighting.

Matched MeSH terms: Students
Difficulty levels of extracted human teeth used for pre-clinical training in endodontics in an Australian dental school

Decurcio DA, Lim E, Nagendrababu V, Estrela C, Rossi-Fedele G

Aust Endod J, 2020 Apr;46(1):47-51.
PMID: 31267618 DOI: 10.1111/aej.12355

This study aimed to determine the difficulty level of extracted teeth treated by undergraduate students for pre-clinical endodontic training. Two independent observers assessed a consecutive sample of 1000 periapical radiographs of extracted teeth used in endodontic pre-clinical training. Chi-square test was used to evaluate the adjustment of the distribution, and inter- and intra-examiner agreement were calculated. Minimal, moderate and high difficulty teeth represented 23.1%, 52.1% and 24.8%, respectively. The presence of curvature was the most common grading factor, with 'moderate curvature' reported in 28.7%, and 'extreme curvature' reported in 15.6% of the sample. A difference in the distribution of frequencies was found, favouring the moderate category (P

Matched MeSH terms: Students, Dental
Smoking among students in a rural secondary school

Teh KH, Ling KH

JUMMEC, 2000;5:86-88.

A cross-sectional study on the prevalence of smoking among Form 3, 4 and 5 students of a rural national co-educational school was carried out using a selfadministered questionnaire. By the age of 18 years old, three quarters of boys had tried smoking compared with 12% of girls. About a third of boys were still smokers while only 0.7% of girls were still smokers. There was a higher prevalence of smokers among students who stayed with their parents and those who were working part-time. Most smokers knew about the dangerous and addictive effect of cigarette smoking but smoked because of "influence by school peers", "curiosity" and "to increase concentration and decrease tension".

Matched MeSH terms: Students
Fulltext Implementing a collaborative medicine and pharmacy educational activity in two countries

Brock T, Vu T, Kadirvelu A, Lee CY, Kent F

Med Educ Online, 2020 Dec;25(1):1780697.
PMID: 32552527 DOI: 10.1080/10872981.2020.1780697

BACKGROUND: To promote better collaboration for patient care, interprofessional education (IPE) is required in many health professions courses. However, successful IPE implementation at scale can be challenging because of complicated logistics and competing priorities. Implementing across multiple geographies adds further complexity.
OBJECTIVE: This paper describes the implementation of a full cohort IPE activity for medical and pharmacy students delivered at both the Australian and Malaysian campuses of Monash University.
DESIGN: We designed a 150-minute, blended learning activity centred around asthma care for second-year medical and pharmacy students. Student perceptions were measured with a pre- and post-activity survey using the validated ten-item, three-factor, SPICE-R2 instrument. Analysis focused on differences between professions and countries.
RESULTS: All second-year medicine (N = 301 in Australia and N = 107 in Malaysia) and pharmacy students (N = 168 in Australia and N = 117 in Malaysia) participated in the learning activity. A total of 326/693 (47%) students participated in the associated research by completing both the pre- and post-activity surveys. The pre-activity survey showed significant differences in four items between medicine and pharmacy students in Australia and two items in Malaysia. Post-activity, we observed significant changes in 8/10 items when the two professions were combined. Specifically, we noted changes across the countries in perceptions of roles and responsibilities for collaborative practice and patient outcomes from collaborative practice.
CONCLUSIONS: IPE across different professions and countries is feasible. Positive outcomes in role understanding and perceived patient outcomes are achievable through a context-sensitive, locally driven approach to implementation. Longitudinal experiences may be required to influence perceptions of teamwork and team-based care.

Matched MeSH terms: Students, Medical/psychology; Students, Pharmacy/psychology
Examining students' intention to perform voluntary blood donation using a theory of planned behaviour: A structural equation modelling approach

Hossain Parash M, Suki NM, Shimmi SC, Hossain ABMT, Murthy KD

Transfus Clin Biol, 2020 Apr;27(2):70-77.
PMID: 32139133 DOI: 10.1016/j.tracli.2020.02.002

OBJECTIVE: This study aims to examine the behavioural intention of students to make voluntary blood donations. Moreover, it uses a theory of planned behaviour as its guiding principle and does so within the context of Malaysia, a developing nation.
METHODS: Data were collected via a self-administered questionnaire from a sample of 500 students at a public higher learning institution in Malaysia. Structural equation modelling approach (SEM) was performed to assess the strength of the hypothesized relationships of the proposed model simultaneously via the two-stage model-building process.
RESULTS: The SEM approach revealed that knowledge was the most influential predictor of students' intention to make a voluntary blood donation. With the knowledge that the more blood they donate, the more lives will be saved, the inclination to donate blood is intensifying among students. Moreover, all of the TPB constructs applied were also seen to significantly influence students' response to voluntary blood donation.
CONCLUSIONS: The nexus of attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioural control, and knowledge about students' intention to perform voluntary blood donation are evidenced in a developing nation. The implications of the study and directions for future research are provided.

Matched MeSH terms: Students
CASPIANET++: A multidimensional Channel-Spatial Asymmetric attention network with Noisy Student Curriculum Learning paradigm for brain tumor segmentation

Liew A, Lee CC, Lan BL, Tan M

Comput Biol Med, 2021 09;136:104690.
PMID: 34352452 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.104690

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been used quite successfully for semantic segmentation of brain tumors. However, current CNNs and attention mechanisms are stochastic in nature and neglect the morphological indicators used by radiologists to manually annotate regions of interest. In this paper, we introduce a channel and spatial wise asymmetric attention (CASPIAN) by leveraging the inherent structure of tumors to detect regions of saliency. To demonstrate the efficacy of our proposed layer, we integrate this into a well-established convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture to achieve higher Dice scores, with less GPU resources. Also, we investigate the inclusion of auxiliary multiscale and multiplanar attention branches to increase the spatial context crucial in semantic segmentation tasks. The resulting architecture is the new CASPIANET++, which achieves Dice Scores of 91.19%, 87.6% and 81.03% for whole tumor, tumor core and enhancing tumor respectively. Furthermore, driven by the scarcity of brain tumor data, we investigate the Noisy Student method for segmentation tasks. Our new Noisy Student Curriculum Learning paradigm, which infuses noise incrementally to increase the complexity of the training images exposed to the network, further boosts the enhancing tumor region to 81.53%. Additional validation performed on the BraTS2020 data shows that the Noisy Student Curriculum Learning method works well without any additional training or finetuning.

Matched MeSH terms: Students
Fulltext Sleep quality among pre-clinical medical students in Universiti Putra Malaysia and Universiti Malaya, Malaysia

Ngu ST, Masalamany K, Abd Manan N, Adam SK

Education in Medicine Journal, 2017;9(3):23-31.
MyJurnal DOI: 10.21315/eimj2017.9.3.3

Introduction: Poor sleep quality among university students has become an important issue to be concerned as it can hugely influence the students especially on their academic performance. However, there are inadequate studies published on the sleep quality of medical students in Malaysia.
Objective: This study aimed at determining the sleep quality of pre-clinical medical students in Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and Universiti Malaya (UM). Methods: This is a cross-sectional study that used self-administered questionnaire to collect data from the pre-clinical medical students
of UPM and UM. Sleep quality of the students was measured using Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) questionnaire. All data were analysed by SPSS version 21.
Results: Findings revealed that 63.9% respondents with poor sleep quality (PSQI score: more than 5). The prevalence of poor sleepers
in UM (67%) was slightly higher compared to UPM (60.9%). However, the comparison of PSQI score showed no significant difference between UPM and UM respondents (p = 0.082). Meanwhile, the average sleep duration per night among respondents was 5 hours 39 minutes (± 1.21 hrs), whereas
only 6.1% students practiced recommended sleep value per night (> 7 hrs). Significant association was found between caffeine intake and sleep quality. Besides, this present study showed no association between sleep quality with gender and year of study.
Conclusion: Majority of the pre-clinical students in UPM and UM had poor sleep quality and short sleep duration. Only a small number of students practiced recommended sleep value per night.

Matched MeSH terms: Students, Medical
Unethical Admissions: Academic Integrity in Question

Ansah RH, Aikhuele DO, Yao L

Sci Eng Ethics, 2017 08;23(4):1237-1239.
PMID: 27896603 DOI: 10.1007/s11948-016-9815-9

The increasing unethical practices of graduates' admissions have heightened concerns about the integrity of the academy. This article informs this important subject that affects the students, admission systems, and the entire scientific community, thus, representing an approach against scholarly black market activities including falsified documents and unethical practices by consultants and students' recruitment agencies.

Matched MeSH terms: Students

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