Students' perception on teaching and learning activities and their understanding in power engineering course

Abstract

Current teaching and learning activities have move to a new era which the modules and lecture can be obtained through online resources only. However, the advantages of combining both online and offline methods cannot be neglected to ensure the students understand in detail the concept that they studied. Hence, in this paper, the effectiveness of both online and offline teaching and learning activities are studied in the Power Engineering course for electronic engineering program. The study is based on survey and analysis on final examination results which was conducted to understand the students' perception and correlate with their achievement. A survey was distributed to the students taking this course in Semester September–December 2015 in Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA. It was found that, more than 70 percent of the overall students chose the tutorial session conducted during face-to-face lecture as the most effective method of teaching and learning activities. 58 percent of the students think that they able to understand and explain in detail all the time on topic 3-phase system. From the final examination result, it is shown that 32 students able to get 90–100 percent range from total mark for question on the 3-phase system. Education background also influences the students' performance, where 30 percent of students from Diploma UiTM Dungun and Matriculation UiTM each scored A for final examination. Not only 15 percent students from Matriculation KPT scored A, but the failed students also come from that background. Hence, this study can be used in future to improve the method of teaching for topic which students less ability to understand and the method of teaching and level of attention given to students for different education background.