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{"title":"Mentorship Communication Role of Teachers and Prevention of Teenage Pregnancies in Public Secondary Schools in Narok County, Kenya","authors":"P. Miriti, H. Mberia, K. Ngula","doi":"10.6007/IJARBSS/V11-I3/8269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/V11-I3/8269","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Sexuality plays a very significant role in the lives of both boys and girls. Teacher communication is therefore important in preventing teenage pregnancies among students in secondary schools. Objective: Mentorship communication role of teachers and prevention of teenage pregnancies in public secondary schools in Narok County, Kenya. Method: A mixed research design was used in the study. It combined qualitative and quantitative study approaches. The population of the study included all the 8994 female students of Narok County from 52 secondary schools in the Narok County in the year 2019. The respondents were aged between 13-19 years attending both boarding and day public secondary schools in Narok County in both. Stratified technique of sampling was used to sample the population into strata. The study selected proportionally the subjects from different strata. Total study sample size was 536; 500 respondents for the questionnaire, 12 for the interview, and 24 for the focus group discussions. A questionnaire, key informant interviews and focus group discussions were used to collect data. Quantitative data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences computer software package (SPSS statistics version 22). Descriptive statistics drawn include mean, and standard deviation which were presented in tables, frequencies and percentages. Inferential statistics drawn include multiple regression and correlation analysis. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences Vol. 1 1 , No. 3, 2021, E-ISSN: 2222-6990 © 2021 HRMARS 382 Results: Results reveal that there is a significant positive relationship between mentorship communication role and prevention of teenage pregnancies (r = 0.630). This implies that there is a very strong association between mentorship communication role and prevention of teenage pregnancies which is significant Conclusion The study concluded that mentorship programs were effective in controlling pregnancy cases among school-going girls in the area where the study was done. This implies that if the mentorship programs are well implemented, the pregnancy cases among girls will reduce drastically. This will improve lives of women and society in general. The study concluded that individual teachers make decisions on their own regarding what and when to teach sexuality education. This discretion implies holding back information from the learners, teaching abstinence as the only way of preventing pregnancy or cancelling sexuality education sessions altogether.","PeriodicalId":333260,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130099722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Issues and Challenges of Outcome-based Education (OBE) Implementation among Malaysian Vocational College Teachers","authors":"Mohd Amiruddin Ag. Damit, Muhd Khaizer Omar, M. Puad","doi":"10.6007/IJARBSS/V11-I3/8624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/V11-I3/8624","url":null,"abstract":"The establishment of Vocational Colleges is a transformation from the Ministry of Education Malaysia to upgrade Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in producing skilled workers and empowering the utilization latest technology to industries. The evolvement of Vocational Colleges' teaching and learning approaches to Outcome-based Education (OBE) has contributed to curriculum implementation among Vocational Colleges educators. Issues that arise based on previous studies have found problems in implementing OBE among teachers, thus causing the teaching and learning process to be less effective. Therefore, a study was conducted to explore the teaching and learning process based on OBE by Vocational College teacher, especially in the Automotive Technology program in Selangor. This study aims to explore the issues and challenges of OBE implementation in Vocational Colleges. Researchers use a qualitative phenomenology approach to obtain the answers of the formulated research questions. Semi-structured interviews conducted with seven teachers as key informants in this study and two Vocational College administrators as supplementary data. The study results found that the challenges that hinder OBE implementation in Vocational Colleges are the workload of teachers, poor curriculum implementation, unstable system implementation, and lack of administrator support. The results of this study provide feedback to the Division of Vocational-Technical Education and Training (BPLTV), Vocational College administrators, and teachers on issues and challenges in applying OBE in Vocational Colleges. These challenges need to be addressed to ensure improvements, including knowledge, monitoring, and practices being imparted in Vocational Colleges teaching and learning ecosystem.","PeriodicalId":333260,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences","volume":"240 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123096348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring Death Anxiety and Mental Health among Adults Living in Lembah Klang, Malaysia.","authors":"Suzana Mohd Hoesni, J. Manap, Nurul Shafini Shafurdin, Muhamad Ariff Ibrahim","doi":"10.6007/IJARBSS/V11-I3/8917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/V11-I3/8917","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":333260,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122114490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Patterns of Relationships in Polygamous Families in Malaysia","authors":"Muhammad Faliq Abd Razak, I. H. Hashim, Syazwani Drani","doi":"10.6007/IJARBSS/V11-I3/8913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/V11-I3/8913","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study was to identify patterns of relationships in polygamous families in Malaysia. A total of six families were interviewed. This involved 21 respondents consisting of six husbands, five first wives, five second wives, one third and fourth wife, as well as three children. In-depth, face-to-face interviews were conducted based on the interview questions. Interviews were transcribed and analyzed using thematic analysis and six themes emerged as follows: relationships of warmth and rejuvenation; use of multi-way communication and a veto; valuing straightforward and deep conversations; feeling well treated as long as comparisons can be avoided; maintaining close relationships; and fair and friendly treatment. The findings of this study are expected to help mitigate the perception that polygamous families always produce bad family environments and are dysfunctional. Instead it is shown that polygamous families often produce more positive, better relationships than those in monogamous marriages. The findings of the study are explained, and major implications discussed, in detail.","PeriodicalId":333260,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134118779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Investigative Study of Cognitive and Metacognitive Paraphrasing Strategies in ESL Writing","authors":"Noor Hanim Rahmat","doi":"10.6007/IJARBSS/V11-I3/8919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/V11-I3/8919","url":null,"abstract":"Paraphrasing is not an easy task as it involves the writer using many levels of knowledge. A writer needs to use both reading and writing skills to write. He/she needs to go through the stages of before, during and after writing processes in order to reach the final draft. Paraphrasing is not an easy task as it requires the writer to use both cognitive and metacognitive strategies. This study explores the aspects of cognitive and metacognitive strategies that is used by the writer to paraphrase. A survey is use to elicit responses from purposely random chose ESL writers who went through a semester of academic writing class. Findings revealed that writers consciously and unconsciously use components of cognitive and metacognitive strategies to paraphrase. The results of this study bear interesting implications in the teaching and learning of academic writing for ESL learners.","PeriodicalId":333260,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121200591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Review on The Implementation of Remote Teaching: Highlighting the Experience of Primary School ESL Teachers","authors":"Yazid Junaidi, H. Hashim","doi":"10.6007/IJARBSS/V11-I2/8560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/V11-I2/8560","url":null,"abstract":"The shutting down of countries due to the rapidly spreading COVID-19, which was announced as global pandemic on March 11, 2020, has disrupted the balance of social interaction and organization. In the effort to flatten the infection curve and reduce total fatalities from the disease, educational institutions are forced to shut down resulting educators grappling for other alternatives for delivering instructions. With urgency to maintain the continuity of the education systems, Malaysia has decided to implement Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) to replace the withdrawal of face-to-face interaction at school during the Movement Control Order (MCO). This paper reviews the implementation of ER and teachers of primary education perception towards ERT in teaching English as second language (ESL) and challenges faced during the implementation of ERT. This paper also presents some recommendations in addressing the challenges identified to provide better implementation and quality delivery of knowledge through ERT.","PeriodicalId":333260,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129021187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Impact Total Quality Management and Corporate Social Responsibility on the Financial Performance on Higher Education Institutions: Review with Focus on Private Institutions in the United Arab Emirates","authors":"Laith Naji Abed Almuntfjya, Tan Owee Kowang","doi":"10.6007/IJARBSS/V11-I3/8520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/V11-I3/8520","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":333260,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122417163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Consumer’s Presupposition on Explicit and Implicit Information in Malaysian Milk Formula Television Advertisement","authors":"Nur Widad Roslan, N. Roslan, Siti Nur Aliaa Roslan, N. A. Rahim","doi":"10.6007/IJARBSS/V11-I3/8920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/V11-I3/8920","url":null,"abstract":"Milk formula brands in Malaysia have increased their advertising on television advertisements over the years, with a growing demand on milk formula for children above 2 years old. However, not many consumers are aware of the implicit and explicit information that the brand includes in the television advertisement. With this, it is important for consumers to know and understand the importance of the information that is implicitly or explicitly in cooperated in the milk formula television advertisement. The study uses qualitative method, focusing on Fairclough’s (1995) critical discourse analysis, the second dimension which is discourse practice analysis under the sub category of intertextuality which is presupposition. A total of 20 Mother/ or Father with children drinking milk formula will be exposed to 5 different brands of Milk formula television advertisement and will be interviewed on their presupposition of the explicit and implicit information contained in the milk formula advertisement. The finding shows that parents are only aware of the explicit information in the television advertisement as it is directly mentioned, as opposed to the implicit information as the parents don’t have much time to make their own inference on the implicit information. It is hoped that further studies will be done on the importance of explicit and implicit information in television advertisements.","PeriodicalId":333260,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120944115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Strategic Intelligence and Financial Performance in the Commercial Banks in Kenya","authors":"Walowe Kori Blandina, Makau Muathe Stephine, Mwangi Maina Samuel","doi":"10.6007/IJARBSS/V11-I3/8930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/V11-I3/8930","url":null,"abstract":"This study set to find out whether strategic intelligence has any effect on the financial performance on Kenyan commercial banks, establish whether it could be used to improve performance of the Kenyan banking sector and further support the economic growth of the country. The study conceptualized strategic intelligence as synergy of business intelligence, competitive intelligence and knowledge management. Data was obtained from the yearly records and publications of the central bank of Kenya, between the years 2016 – 2018. Further the researcher conducted simple linear multivariate analysis to confirm the outcome strategic intelligence has on the return on equity of the saving banks. Hypothesis testing was conducted at P-value<0.5. Findings indicated that strategic intelligence has a positive effect on the return on equity. The results showed that a unit increase of strategic intelligence led to a significant increase on the return on equity. Data collection was limited to the 40 registered Kenyan savings institutions. Further return on equity was used as financial measurement, for three consecutive years (2016 -2018), acquired from the yearly publications of the central bank of Kenya. The main objective was to identify the effect of strategic intelligence on the financial performance in Kenya. The study further revealed the benefits accrued in stability and sustainability of the banks, when strategic intelligence is employed. Moreover, this study exposed the setbacks that emerge in the absence of strategic intelligence in an individual commercial bank and the sector as a whole. The diversification of strategic intelligence of banks in Kenya should focus on growth of return on equity as the most attractive financial ratio, easy to interpret and the fast noticeable by investors, hence the major sources of revenue for the growth, stability and sustainability of the commercial banks in Kenya.","PeriodicalId":333260,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115213656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reward of Management Practices for Employee Retention and Variable payment to Public Institutions","authors":"U. Orajaka","doi":"10.6007/IJARBSS/V11-I3/8929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/V11-I3/8929","url":null,"abstract":"The study expressed the effect of variable payment and employee retention to the reward of Management performance in some selected organizations in south East Nigeria. The application of descriptive statistics, correlation tools and mean likert was employed to evaluate the significant relationship and coefficient of determination of the variables. However, the tools show that there is a strong positive relationship association between the variable payment and employee retention in public university. The analysis also shows that there is a strong positive significant relationship in the system. These results conclude that variable payment and employee retention has a strong positive effect to organizational performance in the study areas selected. The study is recommended for wider use applicable for the study areas, for academic purposes, for research and to understand the impact of variable payment and employee retention in organizational practices and its performances in public universities and beyond.","PeriodicalId":333260,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128966613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}