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Information Skills In Academic Writing, Premavathy N. Gurusamy Jan 2000

Information Skills In Academic Writing, Premavathy N. Gurusamy

Student Works (2000-2009)

This research attempts to study the application of information skills in the practicum reports of the ln-Service English Language Immersion course participants. Application of information skills entails retrieving and processing information through library skills; reading comprehension; reading strategies such as skimming and scanning; identifying main ideas; note-taking and report or essay writing. The researcher found that English Language teacher in the in-service TESL training programmes in Teacher Training Colleges were deficient in information handling skills. Various instruments were used to gauge the use of information skills in academic writing and within the context of this study which is actually the …

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Role Of The Principal As An Instructional Leader Of An Effective School In Petaling Jaya, Usha Parmesuren Nair Jan 2000

Role Of The Principal As An Instructional Leader Of An Effective School In Petaling Jaya, Usha Parmesuren Nair

Student Works (2000-2009)

The main purpose of this study is to establish the role of the principal as an instructional leader towards an effective school based on teacher's perception. This study focuses on the five dimensions of the role of the principal as an instructional leader. The dimensions are defining the mission and vision, managing the curriculum, supervising the teaching-learning process, monitoring student achievement and promoting conducive climate. The sample of the study is Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Sultan Abdul Samad, Petaling Jaya. A total of 85 teachers were selected randomly for the purpose of this study. The instrument of this study was through …

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The Effectiveness Of Vocabulary Activities In Enhancing The Speaking Ability Of Young Learners, Norazlina Mohd. Noor Jan 2000

The Effectiveness Of Vocabulary Activities In Enhancing The Speaking Ability Of Young Learners, Norazlina Mohd. Noor

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This study was aimed at investigating the effectiveness of vocabulary activities in enhancing the speaking abilities of young learners. The subjects were fifteen standard four students with very low proficiency. The researcher used a qualitative approach for this study. A total of five vocabulary activities were carried out in this study. The topics of the vocabulary activities were food, clothes, descriptions, directions, and occupations. The vocabulary for each topic was introduced using different activities. In order to study if the new vocabulary was effective in encouraging students to speak, students then carried out speaking activities. The speaking activities were selected …

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Penggunaan Komputer Dalam Proses Pengajaran Dan Pembelajaran Sejarah Tingkatan Satu Di Beberapa Buah Sekolah Menengah Lembah Kelang, Vasantha Vethembram Jan 2000

Penggunaan Komputer Dalam Proses Pengajaran Dan Pembelajaran Sejarah Tingkatan Satu Di Beberapa Buah Sekolah Menengah Lembah Kelang, Vasantha Vethembram

Student Works (2000-2009)

The purpose of this study is to analyse the use of Computer in the teaching and learning process of History to students of Form One in some Secondary schools in the Klang Valley. The sample population of this study includes 60 students and 5 teachers from three schools that are Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Vivekananda, Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan San Peng and Sekolah Menengah Victoria. This study was carried out using the 'survey' technique. Data obtained from this study were analysed using the SPS version 9. 0 program. The statistical analyses used are frequencies and percentages. Chi - squared test was used …

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Vocabulary Development In Form 5 Esl Classes : Investigating Teachers' Beliefs And Practices, Parminder Kaur Kirpal Singh Jan 2000

Vocabulary Development In Form 5 Esl Classes : Investigating Teachers' Beliefs And Practices, Parminder Kaur Kirpal Singh

Student Works (2000-2009)

Teachers' beliefs are considered to have a strong influence on various aspects of teachers' classroom practices. This study specifically examines the teachers' beliefs and their practices, in relation to the teaching and learning of vocabulary in reading comprehension lessons to English as second language (ESL) students. Hence, this study sought to investigate if the professed beliefs are displayed during classroom instruction, placing special attention to a particular component of subject area: vocabulary. Three teachers' beliefs and practices were investigated in three Form Five ESL classes with different levels of academic performance, language ability and proficiency from a school in Kuala …

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Senior Project: A Paradox In Critical Pedagogy, Mark Allen Winters Jan 2000

Senior Project: A Paradox In Critical Pedagogy, Mark Allen Winters

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

High school education is currently based upon technicist pedagogy, transforming education into mere technical training for the workforce. The regimen of testing in schools standardizes experiences and fails to provide a complete view of what students know and are able to do. Students need freedom to question and to insert their own interests into what they are studying. Such freedom provides more than preparation for graduation; it provides emancipatory education. I focused on a single curricular program—Senior Project. My research questioned, "Can Senior Project provide high school students with the freedom to study topics of personal interest and the freedom …

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Quadratic Equation In Algebra : Analysis Of Written Responses Among Form Four Students Mathematics Education, Dorothy Dewitt Jan 2000

Quadratic Equation In Algebra : Analysis Of Written Responses Among Form Four Students Mathematics Education, Dorothy Dewitt

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This study is an attempt to suggest that persuasion is employed in thesis writing . Based on the Social Constructionist Approach , the present study proposes that persuasion in thesis writing is implicit. This is in line with the demands of the academic community that expects scientific language to be objective. Both qualitative and quantitative analyses were conducted in the study. The major study is a qualitative analysis based on a corpus made up of fourteen (14) Master's theses that were randomly selected from the Arts and Science fields. Two quantitative analyses were also conducted on the corpus. The first …

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Pemahaman Dan Penghayatan Nusus Adabiyyat : Satu Kajian Di Kalangan Pelajar-Pelajar Sekolah Agama Kelantan, Mohd. Zaki Deraman Jan 2000

Pemahaman Dan Penghayatan Nusus Adabiyyat : Satu Kajian Di Kalangan Pelajar-Pelajar Sekolah Agama Kelantan, Mohd. Zaki Deraman

Student Works (2000-2009)

Kajian ini mengandungi lima bab yang cuba membincang dan menyelidiki tentang pemahaman dan penghayatan Nusus Adabiyyat di kalangan pelajar-pelajar sekolah agama Kelantan. Dalam bab pertama penulisan ini akan dibicarakan tentang rasional kajian ini khususnya yang berkaitan dengan kurangnya minat para pelajar terhadap mata pelajaran ini sekarang ini, sedangkan pada masa yang sama mereka meminati untuk mempelajari bahasa Arab. Faktor inilah yang mendorong penulis kepada objektif atau matlamat penulisan kajian ini. Penulisan kajian ini penting bagi menilai sejauh manakah tahap kefasihan, kefahaman dan penghayatan mereka. Penulisan dan kajian berkaitan dengan konsep pemahaman dan penghayatan Nusus akan dibincang dan ditinjau juga dalam …

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Satu Kajian Perbandingan Pelaksanaan Kelas Khas Bermasalah Pembelajaran Di Sebuah Sekolah Menengah Di Kuala Lumpur Dan Di Sebuah Sekolah Khas Di Tokyo, Kamaliah Muhammad Jan 2000

Satu Kajian Perbandingan Pelaksanaan Kelas Khas Bermasalah Pembelajaran Di Sebuah Sekolah Menengah Di Kuala Lumpur Dan Di Sebuah Sekolah Khas Di Tokyo, Kamaliah Muhammad

Student Works (2000-2009)

This study is a comparative study of the implementation of the special education programmes for the children with learning disabilities In Malaysia and in Japan. The study is based on observations carried out by the researcher both in Malaysia and in Japan.  In brief this study touches on three major fields, that is, the curriculum of the programme for children with learning duties, and the roles of both professionals and parents in the implementation of the programmes.

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Penguasaan Kemahiran Berfikir Kritis Di Kalangan Pelajar-Pelajar Pendidikan Islam : Satu Kajian Kes, Rashidah Mohd. Khairudin Jan 2000

Penguasaan Kemahiran Berfikir Kritis Di Kalangan Pelajar-Pelajar Pendidikan Islam : Satu Kajian Kes, Rashidah Mohd. Khairudin

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This research is conducted to see the extent of Critical Thinking Skills acquisition among Islamic Education students. Aspects that were researched into consists of two main categories which are The Skill Of Making inferences and the sub-category which is the focus of this research is The Ski11 Of Making Explicit Conclusion. The next main category is The Skill Of Collecting And Using Information and the sub-category which is the focus of this research is The Ski11 Of Determining The Muslim Decree. The sample consists of 30 Arts and Sciences stream students who were randomly chosen from a school in the …

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Kebolehan Metakognitif Di Kalangan Pelajar Tingkatan Empat Dalam Penulisan Karangan, Julia Mustafa Jan 2000

Kebolehan Metakognitif Di Kalangan Pelajar Tingkatan Empat Dalam Penulisan Karangan, Julia Mustafa

Student Works (2000-2009)

This research aimed at finding out student s' metacognitive competence in writing or metawriting. Addition to that, it investigate the level of subcomponents of metacognition in writing; the knowledge in metawriting and its subcategories such as metawriting knowledge of person, writing tasks and writing strategy. 13es ides that, this research aimed to find out the level of competence of students in the second metacognition component; the student s' level of competence in monitoring and self- regulating in writing composition s. This study look at the correlation between the level of metacognition component and students performance in writing composition. The correlation …

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Kemahiran Berfikir Secara Kritis Dalam Pengajaran Sejarah : Perspektif Murid Tingkatan Empat Di Teluk Intan, Khairi Ariffin Jan 2000

Kemahiran Berfikir Secara Kritis Dalam Pengajaran Sejarah : Perspektif Murid Tingkatan Empat Di Teluk Intan, Khairi Ariffin

Student Works (2000-2009)

This research aimed at finding out form four students in Teluk Intan perspective towards the teaching of History in schools. The researcher focused on the aspect of the teachers' teaching styles, elements that were emphasized in the history teachers' teaching and their approaches in encouraging and developing critical thinking skills among students. Another three aspects analyzed were the teachers' emphasis on Bloom Taxonomy levels, the methods and approaches practised by the History teachers and the types of question emphasized in the teaching of History. Another purpose of this research is to find out whether students' achievements in the History subject …

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Perspektif Baru Dalam Kemahiran Mengarang : Satu Kajian Kes, Mohd Azam Ahmad Jan 2000

Perspektif Baru Dalam Kemahiran Mengarang : Satu Kajian Kes, Mohd Azam Ahmad

Student Works (2000-2009)

The Malay Linguistics has progressed parallel to the developments of modern linguistic. Therefore, it is fair that the methods of teaching as well as the syllabus of Malay Language of our schools be revised in accordance to such developments. In relation to the above issue, this study has attempted to observe the various methodologies of the teaching of essay writing skills. The syllabus and students' essay products have been carefully studied. Based on the observation, some weaknesses were identified both in the syllabus content as well as in the pedagogical components of the teaching of essay writing skills. It is …

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Reading Comprehension Strategies Of Form Four Esl Students : A Case Study / Joginder Kaur A/P Bhan Singh, Joginder Kaur Bhan Singh Jan 2000

Reading Comprehension Strategies Of Form Four Esl Students : A Case Study / Joginder Kaur A/P Bhan Singh, Joginder Kaur Bhan Singh

Student Works (2000-2009)

This study aimed to determine the awareness and application of reading comprehension strategies by high and low proficiency ESL students. The study also related strategy use to the variables of language proficiency, gender and language background and included an analysis of variation in the use of individual strategies. The study adopted a qualitative case study design using eight high and low proficiency students from a Form Four class. The subject were purposively selected to ensure that there was a difference in language proficiency, gender and language background. The study addressed the following research questions: 1) How do !he high and …

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Metodologi Pendidikan Tamadun Islam Peringkat Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (Stpm) : Suatu Kajian Di Sekolah-Sekolah Menengah Di Kuching, Sarawak, Abdul Razak Abdul Kadir Jan 2000

Metodologi Pendidikan Tamadun Islam Peringkat Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (Stpm) : Suatu Kajian Di Sekolah-Sekolah Menengah Di Kuching, Sarawak, Abdul Razak Abdul Kadir

Student Works (2000-2009)

Abdul Razak bin Abdul Kadir, Metodologi Pendidikan Tamadun Islam Peringkat Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (STPM): Suatu Kajian di Sekolah-Sekolah Menengah di Kuching, Sarawak, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. The purpose of this research is to find a suitable methodology for Islamic Civilization subject at STPM level. This subject is compulsory for all STPM candidates. Thus, a proper method of learning must be adapt from the findings.

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An Investigation Of The Haitian-American Community In New Jersey And Its Understanding Of School Choice, Hildegarde Vernet Jan 2000

An Investigation Of The Haitian-American Community In New Jersey And Its Understanding Of School Choice, Hildegarde Vernet

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Achievement, Locus Of Control, Self-Concept, Social Problem Solving Training And The Acquisition Of Prosocial Skills In Children, Laura Russomano Jan 2000

Achievement, Locus Of Control, Self-Concept, Social Problem Solving Training And The Acquisition Of Prosocial Skills In Children, Laura Russomano

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Portfolios--From Traditional To Digital : Research For Understanding And Implementation In The Art Classroom, Deb Ann Richmann Jan 2000

Portfolios--From Traditional To Digital : Research For Understanding And Implementation In The Art Classroom, Deb Ann Richmann

Graduate Research Papers

Portfolios are a method in which educators assess student work. The traditional portfolio is generally a collection of papers stored for an intended purpose. There are many types and purposes for portfolios. Technology, however, has yielded some inventive methods for managing the many papers in the portfolio in a digital format. This term, digital portfolio, represents a technological presentation of student work. The differences in hardware, software, and peripherals have been investigated in this review. Along with the tools for management, the implementation in an art classroom is explored. The sustaining impact of the digital portfolio in the art classroom …

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The Challenge And Test Of Our Values: An Essay Of Collective Experience, Kay Herr Gillespie Jan 2000

The Challenge And Test Of Our Values: An Essay Of Collective Experience, Kay Herr Gillespie

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Departing from a specific experience at the 1998 POD conference, the values of the organization—most specifically and directly the “valuing of peopk”—were challenged and put to the test of whether or not we genuinely and sincerely strive to actualize our values. This situation is generalizable to our daily professional and personal lives, and the essay invites readers’ reflection through an examination of our values in combination with the story. The challenge continues, and the test is not finished.

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On The Path: Pod As A Multicultural Organization, Christine A. Stanley, Matthew L. Ouellet Jan 2000

On The Path: Pod As A Multicultural Organization, Christine A. Stanley, Matthew L. Ouellet

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Since 1993, the Professional and Organizational Development Network (POD) has made an increasingly stronger commitment to becoming a multicultural organization. Poised at the entrance to a new century, it seems useful to examine the current standing of this goal in the context of the overall growth and development of POD. In this article the authors take stock of the organization’s history related to multiculturalism, discuss POD’s current organizational strengths and challenges related to models of multicultural organizational development, and offer suggestions for further progress on the path to becoming a multicultural organization.

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Qilt: An Approach To Faculty Development And Institutional Self–Improvement, Mike Laycock Jan 2000

Qilt: An Approach To Faculty Development And Institutional Self–Improvement, Mike Laycock

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

In a climate of increasing emphasis on quality assurance and extra-institutional quality scrutiny, the author argues that faculty developers have a role in encouraging an enhancement-led culture. Faculty ownership of,and responsibility far, continuous quality improvement can help to provide an engagement with teaching and learning issues and may help to overcome resistance and mistrust. At the University of East London, UK, an enabling, whole-institutional framework called QILT (Quality Improvement in Learning and Teaching), whereby faculty create and implement funded improvement plans, has helped to generate this culture.

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Finding Key Faculty To Influence Change, Joan K. Middendorf Jan 2000

Finding Key Faculty To Influence Change, Joan K. Middendorf

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

To succeed in getting faculty to accept new teaching approaches, academic support professionals can benefit from the literature on planned change. By understanding the different rates at which faculty accept change, we can also identify the faculty most likely to lead their colleagues to accepting new approaches. Opinion leaders can offer insight into faculty reactions to new approaches; their involvement in project planning can influence acceptance. Innovators, when selected carefully, can demonstrate and test new teaching approaches. Knowledge of when and how to involve these two kinds of faculty can reduce frustration and enhance efforts to spread new ideas about …

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Student Collaboration In Faculty Development: Connecting Directly To The Learning Revolution, Milton D. Cox, D. Lynn Sorenson Jan 2000

Student Collaboration In Faculty Development: Connecting Directly To The Learning Revolution, Milton D. Cox, D. Lynn Sorenson

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Although faculty developers have worked successfully with faculty to focus on ways to enhance learning and listen to student voices, developers have rarely formed partnerships with students. This chapter reviews established practices involving students directly in faculty development, such as student observer/consultant programs. It also describes the nature, dynamics, and outcomes of some interesting new programs involving students in teaching development activities, thereby empowering students to join developers as change agents ofcampus culture. Finally, this chapter raises issues for faculty developers to reflect on as they consider establishing direct connections-partnerships-with students.

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Transforming Introductory Psychology: Trading Ownership For Student Success, Randall E. Osborne, William Browne, Susan J. Shapiro, Walter F. Wagor Jan 2000

Transforming Introductory Psychology: Trading Ownership For Student Success, Randall E. Osborne, William Browne, Susan J. Shapiro, Walter F. Wagor

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

As colleges struggle to maintain enrollments, many have shifted from a primary focus on recruitment of new students to an increased focus on retaining students once they begin attending the college or university. An examination of introductory courses on our campus, however, revealed significant differences between faculty perceptions of student skills and the actual skills students brought into the classroom. This prompted shifts in the manner in which we teach introductory psychology on our campus in order to enhance the skills necessary for success in survey courses and to provide a foundation of learning and thinking skills that would translate …

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“It's Hard Work!”: Faculty Development In A Program For First–Year Students, Martha L. A. Stassen Jan 2000

“It's Hard Work!”: Faculty Development In A Program For First–Year Students, Martha L. A. Stassen

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Academic programs designed specifically for first-year students provide an important opportunity for faculty growth. This chapter contributes to the limited literature on this topic through a qualitative analysis of interviews with faculty members who taught in an experimental living-learning community for first-year students at a Research I Public University. The analysis suggests atleast four dimensions of faculty growth as a result of their involvement in first-year programs. In addition to outlining the types of impact this experience has on the faculty involved, the article suggests the implications of these findings for faculty development.

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The Influence Of Disciplinary Differences On Consultations With Faculty, Virginia Lee Jan 2000

The Influence Of Disciplinary Differences On Consultations With Faculty, Virginia Lee

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

In recent years researchers have begun to investigate the nature of disciplinary differences in higher education and their implications for teaching and learning. While researchers have studied several aspects of disciplinary differences, they have given comparatively little attention to the significance of these differences for faculty development. After reviewing selective, representative studies from the literature on disciplinary differences, this paper develops a general framework for determining how the characteristics of a discipline influence the dynamics of the consulting relationship using the example of the hard sciences. It explores what kinds of discipline-specific knowledge will be important for consultants and under …

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Classroom Management Issues For Teaching Assistants, Jiali Luo, Laurie H Bellows, Marilyn Grady Jan 2000

Classroom Management Issues For Teaching Assistants, Jiali Luo, Laurie H Bellows, Marilyn Grady

Department of Educational Administration: Faculty Publications

For many graduate teaching assistants, the task of planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling classroom environments can be overwhelming. Empirical research pertaining to major classroom management problems experienced by TAs is scarce. This article is a report of a survey study regarding TA classroom management at a large, land-grant Research 1 University. The study provides specific information about TAs’ perceptions of classroom management experiences and concerns based on TA type, gender, teaching experience, and academic discipline. The results of the study indicate that international and U.S. TAs experienced many common problems, but each of the two types of TAs also had …

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Interactive Health Information Web Services For Business Settings, Nadezhda Soloukhina Jan 2000

Interactive Health Information Web Services For Business Settings, Nadezhda Soloukhina

Graduate Research Papers

With the increase in the cost of healthcare many business in the United States are becoming self-insured or relying on managed healthcare organizations to provide healthcare. Employee wellness programs are playing a more pivotal role in the healthcare strategies of medium size to large size business. On average, according to the surveys, these companies spend $40 per employee per year on wellness programs. This research summarizes the needs to provide interactive health information services to complement employee wellness program of business in the US, and describes the procedures of developing health information kiosks.

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