Stream Students Research Articles

Implementasi Pendidikan Berasaskan Hasil (PBH) melalui Pembelajaran Berasaskan Projek (PBPj) untuk Menilai Pencapaian Domain Kognitif Berdasarkan Topik Ekosistem Terancam

The education system in Malaysia is in the process creating a paradigm shift from implementing an external evaluation to School Based Assessment (SBA). The Malaysia Education Blueprint 2015-2025 (Higher Education) or the MEB (HE) (Ministry of Higher Education, 2015) is formulated based on the vision and aspiration of Malaysia Education Development Plan (2013-2015) and National Higher Education Strategic Plan (Pelan Strategik Pengajian Tinggi Negara (PSPTN)) in educating students who are knowledgeable, skilled and talented to face the challenges of the 21st century. Shift 1 of the blueprint aims to foster graduates who are holistic, balanced and entrepreneurial in line with the National Education Philosophy. This footstep is closely applied by the Ministry of Education to develop the holistic student profile in the schools. A new evaluation combines the three domains of cognitive, affective and psychomotor instead of focusing on the cognitive domain (DC) those are taken into account in determining student's achievement. This study was conducted to identify the impact on assessment using Outcome Based Education (OBE) through the application of project-based learning (PjBL) by comparing it with the current academic achievement ranking using DC only. All domains involved were represented by academic (cognitive domain), social skills (affective domain) and manipulative skills (psychomotor domain). This study also take into account to determine the impact of students’ assessment in the cognitive domain using Outcome-based Education (OBE) through the application of Project-based Learning (PjBL) compared to Traditional Learning (TL) in the topic of ‘Threatened Ecosystem.’ This study is a quantitative research using quasi-experimental design. A total of 30 Form 4 science stream students were selected using purposive sampling. This study demonstrated that there is no significant difference between the traditional learning (TL) and project-based learning (PJBL) to evaluate students’ cognitive domain. Assessment outlined in the Outcome-based Education is a good evaluation method to be applied to the secondary Based on these findings it is proposed evaluation in OBE through PjBL method is of a better assessment tool to be applied to secondary school, preferably the science stream students. This enables them to be evaluated in a more holistic manner which is in line with the full implementation of PBS in the near future. Subsequently, students’ achievement in affective and psychomotor domains should be carried out to oversee the effect onto the holistic evaluation as outlined in OBE.

Comparative Study of Visual & Auditory Memory between Psychology & Non-Psychology Students: Testing a Stream Hypothesis

Background and Objectives: The process of retention and storage of any kind of information is known as Memory. Present study was conducted to compare the Visual & Auditory Short term memory (STM) in Psychology & Non psychology Students. Materials and Methods: After appropriate consent from students and department. The study comprised of 60 students (30 Psychology, 30 non-psychology/other stream students ) aged 16-20 years of Amity University Gwalior, M.P included ,students having infirmities (Visual or Auditory) were excluded. Reaction time for audiovisual exposures to recalling is noted in all ten subtests. Results: There is a strong difference between the retention and storing capacity of visual STM and auditory STM among both groups. Results: There is a strong difference between the retention and storing capacity of visual STM and auditory STM (p<0.001) between both groups. The mean reaction time is more for long words/sentences than short words. Short words are remembered more accurately than long words by both groups. Interpretation and Conclusion: The visual STM has a short mean reaction time and more accuracy than auditory STM. STM and working memory plays an important role in the learning processes of both groups of undergraduate students.

Effect of Emotional Intelligence and Academic Anxiety: Academic Achievement

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of emotional intelligence on academic achievement of higher secondary students. By searching the related literature it is clear that lot of work has been done in foreign countries but in India picture is not so good. In India, studies have been conducted on other level but not on higher secondary schools, which is very important stage of development as this is the stage a getting excellence in performance career building, and lots of broadly and psychological changes and on this stage emotional intelligence should be developed to duly ability to cope with various changes. The higher secondary students have average level of emotional intelligence and emotional intelligences effect their achievement so favorable learning achievement should be given to enhance the academic achievement of students. The boys are more emotionally intelligent than girls and among students of three stream science students are more emotionally intelligent.

Effect of Emotional Intelligence: Academic Achievement and Higher Secondary Students

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of emotional intelligence on academic achievement of higher secondary students. By searching the related literature it is clear that lot of work has been done in foreign countries but in India picture is not so good. In India, studies have been conducted on other levels but not on higher secondary schools, which is very important stage of development as this is the stage of getting excellence in performance career building and lots of psychological changes. In this stage emotional intelligence should be developed as and to ability to cope with the various changes taking place. The higher secondary students have average level of emotional intelligence and emotional intelligence effects their achievement. Favorable learning environment should be given to enhance the academic achievement of students. The boys are more emotionally intelligent than girls and among students of three stream science students are more emotionally intelligent.

Depression among the College Students: An Empirical Study

The most common psychological problems of college students are depression. Today depression is the serious issue in the world. Every nation invest a lot of money to solve psychological problems, depression is one of them. Research survey on college student's reports there will be 10 to 20% of student population suffering from psychological problems (Stress, Anxiety & Depression). So those kinds of problems are creating a barrier on the way of all round development. Depression is a serious illness among the students and long time depression has the causes of mental disorder. The aim of this study was to measure the depression among the college students and find out the significance of difference between male-female, rural-urban, science-arts, Hindu-Muslim students with regard to depression. The aim of this study also finds out the significance of difference on the basis of social class, academic years and job satisfaction with regards to depression. Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) was employed to measure the degree of depression and 160 students in arts and science streams were taken as representative sample of the whole population. The results presented that level of depression among college students and found that out of 160, 16.88% students are Minimal Depression, 35.62% students are Mild Depression, 41.25% students are Moderate Depression and the percentage of High level of Depression is 6.25. It is found that there is significant difference exists between Rural and Urban College students with regard to depression. The study revealed that there is no significant difference exists between gender (Male & Female), religion (Hindu & Muslim) and Stream (Science & Arts) students with regards to depression. The study also revealed that there is no significant difference on the basis of social class, academic years and job satisfaction with regards to depression.

Nonmedical stream students' insight into oral cancer: A school-based study

Context: Oral cancer incidences are increasing in young generation for the past few decades. Gutkha chewing and cigarettes smoking being responsible for oral cancer, increase in consumption of these products among younger generation have significant impact on incidence of oral cancer. Those who are having nonmedical background may have less exposure to the information of oral cancer. This study was aimed to find out the information of nonmedical stream students perception about oral cancer. Materials and Methods: Nonmedical stream students between ages 19 and 25 years were evaluated for their insight about oral cancer using self-administered questionnaire. Questionnaire has included the questions about general knowledge about oral cancer, causative factors, signs and treatment of oral cancer. Students habits in relation to tobacco-related products were also evaluated. Results: Majority of the students has heard about oral cancer, but hardly have picture about causative factors and their clinical signs. Gutkha and cigarette smoking are still the major forms of tobacco product consumption among nonmedical stream students. Oncologist is the preferred choice for consultation of oral cancer treatment, though nearly half of the participants do not know about the treatment and how to seek it. Conclusion: The nonmedical stream students have less awareness about oral cancer. There is a great need for increase in oral cancer awareness programs as well as may be educational syllabus can have dedicated portion for such a preventable disease such as oral cancer.

The Use of Bloom’s Taxonomy to Inform Students’ Cognitive Levels

To improve students’ conceptual understanding depends on the question types asked by the teachers. This paper investigates to examine form four students’ cognitive levels in Newton’s Law based on Bloom’s Taxonomy. The study sample consisted of 189 science stream students from three secondary schools in Kuala Kangsar, Perak. Researcher implemented Newton’s Law questions as instrument to determine the three cognitive levels of the respondent which namely Knowledge, Comprehension and Application. The paper-pencil test was developed and administered on the subject. The data were collected and analyzed using the Statistical Packages for Social Science for Windows release 21 (SPSS Software). The findings show that the mean of the Knowledge, Comprehension and Application level is moderate.

Investigating EFL Learners’ Multiple Intelligences in the Preparatory Year at Taif University

The present paper aims to investigate the English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ multiple intelligences (MIs) in the preparatory year at Taif University in Saudi Arabia, and to provide suggestions for EFL instructors to integrate MIs in their lesson plans for instructional use in the classroom. To achieve these purposes, the researcher attempted to answer three questions. The first question investigated the different types of MSs that EFL learners possess. The second question examined whether there were any statistically significant differences (a= 0.05) in EFL learners’ MIs due to stream (Humanities, Sciences and Health). The third question was an attempt to synthesize literature in order to suggest ways for instructors to integrate MIs in the EFL classroom. A questionnaire of 4- Likert Scale was used to gather data from four hundred and eighty two students to answer the first two questions. And content analysis was used to answer the third question. The collected data were analyzed in the form of descriptive statistics. The results revealed that students do not tend to have interest in musical and naturalistic intelligences. In addition, there were statistically significant differences among the streams in the perceptions of their MIs in favor of the health stream students. The researcher also synthesized literature and suggested a number of techniques and activities to help instructors integrate MIs in their plans. Based on the results, the researcher presented a number of conclusions and recommendations.

Impact of family climate on the academic achievement of senior secondary students

The world is becoming more and more competitive and quality of performance is the key factor for personal progress. Excellence particularly, in academics and generally in all other areas has been seen as an important aspect. Parents desire that their children climb the ladder of performance to as high level as possible. This desire of a high level of achievement puts a lot of pressure on students, teachers, institutions and the educational system itself in general. In fact it appears as if the whole system of education revolves around academic achievement of the students, though various other outcomes are also expected from the system. Thus, a lot of time and efforts of the schools are utilized in helping students to achieve better in their scholastic endeavors. Thus the present study aims at investigating the impact of family climate on the academic achievement of senior secondary students. The sample consists of 865 male and female respondents of science and arts stream. Family Environment Scale (FES) constructed by Bhatia and Chadha in the year 1993 was used for this study. The findings of the research study depicts the influence of only 2 dimensions of FC (out of 8 dimensions of FC) on students’ academic achievement. Results, clearly shows that the t-value is found to be highly significant at.01 level of confidence. This clearly indicates that two dimensions of FC i.e., Active recreational orientation (F6) & independence (F5) contribute in determining the academic achievement of both science and arts stream students.

Voluntary Blood Donation among Students - A Cross-Sectional Study on Knowledge and Practice vs. Attitude.

The factors influencing blood donation decisions are varied and complex and one's attitude can influence this decision. To find the factors affecting the knowledge and practice of blood donation among college students and their attitude towards the same. This cross-sectional study was conducted among 399 college going students using convenience sampling from medical, nursing and engineering colleges in Bhubaneswar city, where blood donation camps were to be held. Data was collected through self-administered questionnaires and, analysed in SPSS Version 20.0. Knowledge regarding blood donation was adequate among 228 (57.1%) of the students and, 221 (55.4%) students had donated blood. Knowledge was significantly better among female students, medical stream and in those whose parents were in non-medical jobs; whereas blood donation had been done significantly more by male, non-medical stream students and by those whose parents were in medical field. Most common reason for donating blood was a sense of social responsibility and most common reason of non-donation was fear of the procedure. An 85% of the students were of the view that they would donate blood if asked. Students suggested that small incentives like certificates and arranging transport for blood donation would make it easier to donate. Just over half of the students had adequate knowledge about blood donation and similar percentage had donated blood. There is this large pool of safe blood in college going students who are willing, but not tapped as source of blood donation.

English

Additional Mathematics is an elective subject in Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM). However, it is treated as a core subject for almost all the science stream students. Many students who can perform well in Modern Mathematics since primary school cannot master the Additional Mathematics. They fail to understand the concepts in Additional Mathematics. This study seeks to identify the factors that affect students in mastering Additional Mathematics at five schools in an urban area. Bayesian network is used to identify the relationship between the factors in the study and to analyze the data as it is able to represent the variables as nodes and the relationships as directed arcs. Constraint-based algorithms and score-based algorithms are used to generate the networks into several categories to compare and identify the strong relationships among the factors that affect the students’ learning of the subject. It is concluded that the new symbols and sign learned in Additional Mathematics affects the students in mastering the subject.

Science and Arts Streams Students’ Scientific Epistemological Beliefs

As a step to realize Vision 2020, 60:40 ratio policy was announced to produce manpower from scientific and technical field. However, the number of students channel into science stream classes is still far from the targeted ratio. The deterioration of the students enroll into science stream after PMR, Lower Secondary Assessment will give an impact to the effort in encouraging them to further science study in tertiary level. The aim of the study is to identify scientific epistemological belief among science stream and arts stream students. Besides, it is also to identify the difference of scientific epistemological belief between science stream and arts stream students. A total of 370 respondents were selected from both science and arts streams to answer the questionnaire Physics Scientific Epistemological Measurement for Students (PESP). Results showed that most of the science stream respondents were in transition scientific epistemological belief level (67.39%). In the case of arts stream respondents, most of the respondents were in naive and low transition epistemological belief level (92.5%). Overall, the mean value for scientific epistemological belief of science stream respondents (3.14) is higher compared to arts stream respondents (3.01). Based on the t- test result, there is a significance difference in scientific epistemological belief for both science stream and arts stream respondents (t = .07909-.17289, p < 0.05). The research results draw implications to the current curriculum system. Duration of science classes, instructions, examination questions’ pattern and curricular materials should be examined and amended for the current needs. However, more research should be carried out in order to improve students’ scientific epistemological belief level.

Pedagogic Predicament

Initially implicated in the political agenda of colonialism, English studies within the postcolonial situation has continued and expanded. Teaching English in an undergraduate college, my predicament (one that is shared by other such teachers) stems from an acute awareness of the problematic status of English studies and the contradictions that are endemic to teaching it as a language and literature subject within a context where access to English still remains tied to class identity, social power and cultural privilege. Even as a number of us have welcomed the unfettering of traditional English studies so that we can connect it in our English literature classrooms to questions of imperial politics, race and class, we also teach English in the form of a grammar-based curriculum within the same institution to what are known as ‘B’ and ‘C’ stream students in ways that leave no room for political questioning or subversion. Thus, while in our English literature classrooms we talk about our resistant postcolonial identities, within these language classrooms we have to privilege learners’ utilitarian expectations and their legitimate desire for social empowerment.

The Effect of Speed Reading Strategies on Developing Reading Comprehension among the 2nd Secondary Students in English Language

This study aimed to find the effect of speed reading strategies on developing reading comprehension among second secondary literary stream students in English language. The sample of the study consists of (42) students assigned into two groups who were chosen randomly from schools, a controlled group (21) students, and an experimental (21) students trained on speed reading strategies during the academic year 2013/2014. The study used a training material, pre and post reading comprehension tests were administrated (Rababa’h, 1991). T. test results revealed that there were significant differences at (? ? 0.05) among the students’ means in favor of the experimental group. In the light of the results, it is recommended that teachers should train students extensively on the use of speed reading strategies.

Multiple Intelligence Scores of Science Stream Students and Their Relation with Reading Competency in Malaysian University English Test (MUET)

Many researches have shown that different approach needed in analysing linear and non-linear reading comprehension texts and different cognitive skills are required. This research attempts to discover the relationship between Science Stream students’ reading competency on linear and non-linear texts in Malaysian University English Test (MUET) with Multiple Intelligence Theory as well as aims to reveal the prominent type of Multiple Intelligence that significantly predicts the Science Stream students’ performance on the different texts of reading component. In collecting the data, the researcher used two instruments namely the Reading Comprehension of Malaysian University English Test (MUET) and Multiple Intelligence Questionnaire. The participants were 60 diploma students joining in UiTM Alor Gajah Melaka and they were chosen to represent the Science Stream group. Furthermore, the result of the correlation testing shown positive correlation of the total score in MUET reading component as well as in linear text section with Music-Rhythmic, Bodily-Kinaesthetic and Interpersonal Intelligence.

Generic learning skills in academically-at-risk medical students: A development programme bridges the gap

Background: Widening access to medical students from diverse educational backgrounds is a global educational mandate. The impact, on students’ generic learning skills profiles, of development programmes designed for students at risk of attrition is unknown.Aims: This study investigated the impact of a 12-month Intervention Programme (IP) on the generic learning skills profile of academically-at-risk students who, after failing at the end of the first semester, completed the IP before entering the second semester of a conventional medical training programme.Methods: This prospective study surveyed medical students admitted in 2009 and 2010, on entry and on completion of first year, on their reported practice and confidence in information handling, managing own learning, technical and numeracy, computer, organisational and presentation skills.Results: Of 414 first year students, 80 (19%) entered the IP. Levels of practice and confidence for five of the six skills categories were significantly poorer at entry for IP students compared to conventional stream students. In four categories these differences were no longer statistically significant after students had completed the IP; 62 IP students (77.5%) progressed to second year.Conclusions: A 12-month development programme, the IP, effectively addressed generic learning skills deficiencies present in academically-at-risk students entering medical school.

The Role of Family and School in Preparing Students for the General Secondary Certificate in Al-Ahsa Governorate

This study aimed at identifying the role of the family and the role of school in preparing students for the General Secondary Certificate (GSC) in Al-Ahsa Governorate. The study sample consisted of 2000 students who were randomly selected (boys=1059, girls=941). The study found that the role of the family in preparing students for the General Secondary Certificate was high, but the role of school in such preparation was medium. The results indicated that there was no statistically significant gender difference in the role of the school. Academic stream,on the other hand, produced a statistically significant effect on the role of school in students preparation to GSC. Scientific stream students were better prepared than literary stream students. There was an interaction effect between gender and academic stream. In the scientific stream, males were higher, but in the literary stream females were higher. Also, there was significant difference between males and females regarding the role of family.

The Role of Family and School in Preparing Students for the General Secondary Certificate in Al-Ahsa Governorate

This study aimed at identifying the role of the family and the role of school in preparing students for the General Secondary Certificate (GSC) in Al-Ahsa Governorate. The study sample consisted of 2000 students who were randomly selected (boys=1059, girls=941). The study found that the role of the family in preparing students for the General Secondary Certificate was high, but the role of school in such preparation was medium. The results indicated that there was no statistically significant gender difference in the role of the school. Academic stream,on the other hand, produced a statistically significant effect on the role of school in students preparation to GSC. Scientific stream students were better prepared than literary stream students. There was an interaction effect between gender and academic stream. In the scientific stream, males were higher, but in the literary stream females were higher. Also, there was significant difference between males and females regarding the role of family.

Teaching Science and Mathematics in English Steering Mastery in English Language Amongst Sciences Students in UKM

This study was conducted to ascertain teaching Science and Mathematics in English will enhance English proficiency amongst the science stream students in UKM. The study found that the students agreed that the teaching of Science and Mathematics in English can improve their English proficiency. The results showed that teaching Science and Mathematics in English is capable of being a driven force in mastering basic English language and communication, and also in improving the explanation of the concept of Science and Mathematics in English.

Streaming and Students’ Self-Esteem: A Qualitative Study on Teachers’ Correspondence Bias

This study was aimed to investigate the effect of students streaming practice in Malaysian secondary on students self-esteem through teachers expectancy. 17 teachers and 20 students from art and science streams of secondary schools in Penang, Malaysia were participated in this study. Unstructured interviews were used on teachers to collect the qualitative data of teachers expectancy. The participating students were from the fourth year of secondary school in Malaysian school system (between 16-17 years old, 10 from science stream and 10 from arts stream) were interviewed in order to collect the qualitative data of teachers perceived behavior and self-esteem. Result of this study shown that teachers expected science stream students to have good academic performance but expected arts stream students to be involved in disciplinary problems. Furthermore, science stream students perceived that their teachers were academically supportive but arts stream students perceived that their teachers were focusing on controlling their behavior. On the other hand, findings of this study also revealed that science stream students possed higher level of self-esteem than arts stream students. Accordingly, it was indicated that teachers perceived behavior and teachers expectancy are correlated to one another, and teachers perceived behavior predicts students self-esteem. It was discovered that teachers expected science stream students to be eager to improve their academic performance, and students from arts stream class were likely to be involved in disciplinary problems. Students were found to be aware of their teachers expectancy, and their perception of teachers expectancy affected their self-esteem. While self-esteem was referred to a discrepancy between a students ideal-self and actual-self, it was discovered that both groups of students pictured their ideal-self differently to each other. Science stream students pictured their ideal-selves as a character with overall success, while arts stream students pictured their ideal-selves as a socially well-functioned character. Nevertheless, arts stream students found to have lower self-esteem. It was concluded that streaming affected the students self-esteem through teachers expectancy and perceived behavior.