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Contributing Factors Affecting Students Attitudes towards Mathematics in Sabah

By: Shamila Dewi Davadas,Lay Yoon Fah

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Contributing Factors Affecting Students Attitudes towards Mathematics in Sabah

By: Shamila Dewi Davadas,Lay Yoon Fah

A strong mathematics background is essential for job opportunities and advancement in a developing country like Malaysia. It gives students the confidence and ability to solve problems and become rational as well as critical in their thinking. However, Malaysian students’ mathematics achievement is relatively low as compared to other school subjects. This difference is more pronounced in rural schools. Previous studies have highlighted the relationship between students’ attitude and achievement in mathematics. Hence, it is important to investigate the contributing factors that affect students’ attitudes towards mathematics. This book is adapted and modified from a PhD thesis entitled: “Factors affecting students’ attitude towards mathematics in Sabah, Malaysia” of the first author. In this book, the relationships among perceived parental influences, teacher affective support, classroom instruction, gender, SES, students’ previous achievement and students’ attitude towards mathematics are portrayed using Structural Equation Modeling approach. Findings from the study can be utilised to understand the complex interplay of relationships that form students’ attitude towards mathematics, including factors that can be addressed by the classroom mathematics teacher. This book will be useful for secondary school mathematics teachers, researchers, school administrators, students, and policymakers.

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Universiti Malaysia Sabah Press

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9672962789

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Secondary Student Perceptions of Science Classroom Environment and Attitudes towards Sciences

By: Leona A. Candia,Lay Yoon Fah

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Secondary Student Perceptions of Science Classroom Environment and Attitudes towards Sciences

By: Leona A. Candia,Lay Yoon Fah

Science education is important as it equips students with scientific knowledge that can enrich their everyday lives. It helps students to solve problems, learn to be rational as well as be critical in their thinking. However, science learning is deemed challenging as students see the subject as difficult and sometimes tedious to learn. Thus, interest in science is essential to ensure continuous learning in science. It is important to promote positive attitudes towards science among students. Positive attitudes towards science are associated with better achievement in science, increased cooperation as well as participation in class. Malaysia needs a generation who are creative and critical thinkers, thus it is vital to enhance students’ attitudes towards science. As students spend most of their time in a classroom, therefore, shaping students’ perceptions of science classroom environment is crucial in enhancing their attitudes towards science. This book is adapted and modified from a master’s degree thesis entitled: “Relationship between Form 4 Students’ Perceptions of Science Classroom Environment and Attitudes towards Science” of the first author. This book includes analysis of students’ perceptions of science classroom environment and attitudes towards science. This book attempts to answer questions regarding the level of students’ perceptions of science classroom environment, the level of students’ attitudes towards the effect of gender and school locations on students’ perceptions of science classroom environment and attitudes towards science, and the influence of perceptions of science classroom environment on students’ attitudes towards science. This book will be of interest to researchers in science education, especially, perceptions of science classroom environment and attitudes towards science.

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Universiti Malaysia Sabah Press

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9672962754

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9789672962755

Quantitative Approaches in Educational Research

By: Lay Yoon Fah,Khoo Chwee Hoon

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Quantitative Approaches in Educational Research

By: Lay Yoon Fah,Khoo Chwee Hoon

This book is a newer edition of our previous book entitled “Introduction to Quantitative Approach in Educational Research”. It consists of 16 chapters which discuss the use of quantitative approaches in educational research. Readers will be introduced to educational research. This is followed by a discussion on research philosophies and research ethics involved in educational research. Research design, population, samples, sampling techniques, research instruments, quantitative data analysis, hypothesis testing, the use of parametric and non-parametric statistical tests will also be discussed in detail. Due to the rapid advancement of quantitative approaches in educational research, new chapters on the use of Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) approaches, namely Partial Least Squares SEM (PLS-SEM) and Covariance Based SEM (CB-SEM) in educational research have been added in this book. Last but not least, the writing of research reports which includes the introduction chapter, literature review chapter, methodology chapter, research findings chapter and summary, discussion and conclusion chapter will also be discussed in this book.

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Universiti Malaysia Sabah Press

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9672962932

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Education for Underprivileged Primary and Secondary Students in Malaysia

By: Lay Yoon Fah

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Education for Underprivileged Primary and Secondary Students in Malaysia

By: Lay Yoon Fah

The best education system provides the best education to all children, irrespective of their ethnic group or socio-economic background. Malaysian education system aims to ensure that all children, irrespective of who their parents are and where they are schooling, will be equipped with the basic needs to succeed in their future educational endeavours and eventually in daily life and the workforce. Malaysian education system strives to narrow the socio-economic gap, between rural and urban as well as gender in student achievement by 2020. Reducing socioeconomic disparities between rural and urban are likely to have an impact on the achievement gap among students. The education system in Malaysia will actively support social mobility by providing additional supports to those who are less fortunate, and thus ensure socio-economic background of students is no longer a determinant factor of their success in life. However, in the effort to realize equity in education to all children in Malaysia, we are confronted with all sorts of problems and challenges. Empirical studies with scientific explanations will provide insights into how education for underprivileged primary and secondary students in Malaysia can be further improved to ensure equal accessibility to quality education. This book attempts to bring together prominent researchers and educators in the field of rural education to share their findings, experiences, reflection, and vision on the emerging trends in rural education in the country. The book will be of special interest to academics and researchers in the field of rural education, curriculum designers, policy makers, educators, teacher educators, trainee teachers, school principals, school inspectorates, undergraduate and postgraduate students in universities and colleges in the country.

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Universiti Malaysia Sabah Press

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9672962649

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9789672962649

Salutogenic Approach Promoting Students’ Mental Health During COVID-19

By: Lay Yoon Fah ,Walton Wider ,Nasehah Binti Mohd Taib ,Mohd Wafiy Akmal Bin Ahmad Khadri

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Salutogenic Approach Promoting Students’ Mental Health During COVID-19

By: Lay Yoon Fah ,Walton Wider ,Nasehah Binti Mohd Taib ,Mohd Wafiy Akmal Bin Ahmad Khadri

Blended-teaching module has been encouraged by the Malaysian government from day one, especially during this recent COVID-19 pandemic. Owing to the emergence of COVID-19 and the imposition of lockdown, most of the teaching and learning aspects have resorted to the online medium to an extent in the hope of providing quality education to the learners, taking into consideration the health and safety factor. A proper blended-teaching module has the tendency to encourage the social and emotional skills of students with the guidance of positive psychology being upfront. Having said that, this particular blended-teaching module is generally exceptional as it has salutogenic framework that serves as a basic guide to educators when they are playing an integral part in the ecosystem of blended teaching. The main function of this framework is to assist the educators by organizing and channelling the correct method of adapting for the students that are new to blended teaching. Such an atmosphere is needed to increase the adaptability and recovery rates effectively.

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Quantitative Approaches in Educational Research

By: Lay Yoon Fah,Khoo Chwee Hoon

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Education for Underprivileged Primary and Secondary Students in Malaysia

By: Lay Yoon Fah

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By: Lay Yoon Fah

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Contributing Factors Affecting Students Attitudes towards Mathematics in Sabah

Contributing Factors Affecting Students Attitudes towards Mathematics in Sabah

Secondary Student Perceptions of Science Classroom Environment and Attitudes towards Sciences

Secondary Student Perceptions of Science Classroom Environment and Attitudes towards Sciences

Quantitative Approaches in Educational Research

Quantitative Approaches in Educational Research

Education for Underprivileged Primary and Secondary Students in Malaysia

Education for Underprivileged Primary and Secondary Students in Malaysia

Salutogenic Approach Promoting Students’ Mental Health During COVID-19

Salutogenic Approach Promoting Students’ Mental Health During COVID-19

Quantitative Approaches in Educational Research

Quantitative Approaches in Educational Research

Education for Underprivileged Primary and Secondary Students in Malaysia

Education for Underprivileged Primary and Secondary Students in Malaysia

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