Razali Hassan

The Level of Marzano Higher Order Thinking Skills among Technical Education Students

Higher order thinking skills is an important aspect in teaching and learning especially at higher education institutions. Thinking skills practices are part of the generic skills that should be infused in all technical subjects. Students with higher order thinking skills are able to learn, improve their performance and reduce their weaknesses. Hence, the purpose of this research was to identify the level of Marzano Higher Order Thinking Skills among technical education students in the Faculty of Technical Education (FPTek), Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. A total of 158 students of FPTek were randomly selected as sample. A set of questionnaires adapted from Marzano Rubrics for Specific Task or Situations (1993) was used as research instrument. This is a quantitative research and the gathered data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software. The findings indicated that students perceived they have moderate level for investigation, experimental inquiry, comparing, deducing, constructing support, inducing and invention. However, decision making, problem solving, error analyzing, abstracting, analyzing perspectives and classifying are at low level. The Eta analysis indicated that there is a very low positive relationship between the level of Marzano Higher Order Thinking Skills and gender, academic achivement as well as socio economic status. Besides that, the findings also showed that there is no statistically significant difference in gender, academic achivement and socio economic status on the level of Marzano Higher Order Thinking Skills. However, there is significant difference in socio economic status on the level of decision making.

Generating elements of Supervisory Input Support via Exploratory Factor Analysis for effective supervision in Engineering Education

Effective supervision has become a highlight in higher education in recent years. While striving for excellent student development, the constant stress in student supervision has become dominant. Outstanding supervisors can contribute to the prominence of institution image, especially in Engineering Education. This paper discusses the elements that are needed for developing effective supervision by using Exploratory Factor Analysis. The outcome of the study will serve as the competence dimensions for Supervisory Input Support that was developed by the researcher. It can be used in supervision practice especially in technical and engineering project supervision. Nevertheless, generalization of the outputs can also be applied to the other education landscape.

Level of Satisfaction for Occupational Safety and Health Training Activities: A Broad Spectrum Industrial Survey

The main objective of this research article is to identify the satisfaction level for occupational safety and health training activities among oil and gas drilling crew and staff. In this study, data has been gathered from reputed online oil and gas health and safety social and professional platforms through e-survey questionnaire. Similarly, for data analysis descriptive (Percentage %) and graphical statistical approach has been adopted for the interpretations of research findings by using SPSS 22.0 software. According to the overall findings of this paper, there is a sheer need of effective and sufficient training strategies for safety and health training activities at oil and gas extraction industries. As per respondents, there are also limited open source resources available by oil and gas companies for safety and health awareness and personal protection. Likewise, findings also indicated that, most of the participants of this online survey have reported about the communication gap between administration and drilling workforce for safety and health related issues and discussions which is one of the major causes of accidents and unexpected hazards at drilling sites.

Students’ Perception on Teaching Practicum Evaluation using Video Technology

Video technology has been widely used in education especially in teaching and learning. However, the use of video technology for evaluation purpose especially in teaching practicum is extremely scarce and the benefits of video technology in teaching practicum evaluation have not yet been fully discovered. For that reason, this quantitative research aimed at identifying the perceptions of trainee teachers towards teaching practicum evaluation via video technology. A total of 260 students of Teacher Certification Programme (Program Pensiswazahan Guru - PPG) from the Faculty of Technical and Vocational Education (FPTV) of Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) had been randomly selected as respondents. A set of questionnaire was developed to assess the suitability, effectiveness and satisfaction of using video technology for teaching practicum. Conclusively, this research showed that the trainee teachers have positive perceptions in all three aspects related teaching practicum evaluation using video technology. Apart from that, no significant racial difference was found in the measured aspects. In addition, the trainee teachers also showed an understanding of the vast importance of teaching practicum evaluation via video. These research findings suggest that video technology can be a feasible and practical means of teaching practicum evaluation especially for distance learning program.