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  1. Mazlina Abd Razak, Normawati Mohd Shariff, Zalina Daud
    MyJurnal
    The academic performance of Malaysian students has recently been in the spotlight
    when it was revealed that our high schoolers had performed dismally in recent major
    international benchmarking studies. Malaysian students were not only ranked below
    the global average, but they also appear to be performing worse in Mathematics,
    Science and Reading Literacy compared the previous assessments. This has raised
    alarm among not only educational policy makers and academicians, but also other
    stakeholders who are directly or indirectly affected by the success or failure of the
    educational system. This study aims at empirically analysing the academic
    performance of students enrolled in the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma
    Program at Kolej MARA Banting (KMB) over a span of 23 years. It attempts to identify
    whether there is a similar declining trend as reported by PISA and TIMSS, and identify
    factors that accounted for the students’ performance. Students’ IB results from 1993
    to 2016 sourced from KMB database were analysed for trend and the strength of the
    relationship of subjects that contributed to the total points of the IB examination for
    two main programs offered at the college. Finally, future performance for the next
    three years was forecasted using time series analysis using ARIMA (1,0,0). The Mann
    Kendall Test confirmed existence of a downward trend in the students’ results.
    Correlational analyses found that high level subjects comprising of the High Level
    Chemistry, High Level Physics, High Level Biology and High Level Mathematics are
    highly correlated to IB examination results. This is accentuated further after a policy
    change in 2009 when the program for pre-Medical students opted for Standard Level
    Mathematics, instead of High Level Mathematics it used to offer. It is anticipated that
    the findings of this study will provide the relevant authorities with invaluable
    information with a view of instituting corrective measures.
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