{"title":"Writing anxiety among international students in a Thai university","authors":"Jebamani Anthoney, Jeffrey Dawala Wilang","doi":"10.11591/ijere.v12i3.25458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11591/ijere.v12i3.25458","url":null,"abstract":"Literature on writing anxiety among undergraduate students in international universities situated in English as a foreign language context remains scarce. In this study, a survey questionnaire was distributed to know the writing anxiety level of students and anxiety level differences based on nationality and locality. A total of 138 students participated using convenience sampling. Afterward, five students, based on their writing anxiety level, were purposely chosen to attend two sorting activities of statements regarding the change in their writing anxiety. Then, individual semi-structured interviews were conducted to know the factors of writing anxiety change. Descriptive results from the survey have shown that students in an international university experienced high anxiety in specific situations in writing. Also, varying writing anxiety levels were found based on nationality and locality. Findings from the sorting activity indicated that some writing anxiety-provoking situations have changed over a 2-week time frame due to some factors. Some implications for teaching were recommended to reduce writing anxiety in the classroom.","PeriodicalId":52277,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41804948","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}
Daniel Arkoh Fenyi, Angel Edward Kongo, Michael Owusu Tabiri, Ivy Jones-Mensah
{"title":"English speaking anxiety among English-major tertiary students in Ghana","authors":"Daniel Arkoh Fenyi, Angel Edward Kongo, Michael Owusu Tabiri, Ivy Jones-Mensah","doi":"10.11591/ijere.v12i3.25027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11591/ijere.v12i3.25027","url":null,"abstract":"The study explored the English-speaking anxiety of trainee teachers in the colleges of education in Ghana. It aimed at unravelling the causes of the speaking anxiety in the learners and proffering strategies to mitigate the causes of the speaking anxiety. For that purpose, qualitative data were collected from 30 English-major students who attend a college of education in the Western North region of Ghana using semi-structured interviews as the data collection instrument. The data were analyzed using inductive coding data analysis procedures and techniques, where the dominant patterns and themes emerging from the data were grouped and examined. The results showed that the major causes of speaking anxiety are inferiority complex, fear of committing mistakes, spontaneity and the lack of preparation, fear of negative evaluation from tutors and peers, limited knowledge and vocabulary in the language and self-criticism. The participants also indicated the strategies that can curb the problem, including creating a learner-friendly and less formal classroom environment, peer assessment, encouraging the use of more speaking activities in the classroom, positive evaluative feedback and resignation and avoidance. In line with these findings, the study recommended that future research could employ a quantitative approach to produce a more generalizable outcome.","PeriodicalId":52277,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48679984","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}
T. Wulandari, A. Widiastuti, Nasiwan Nasiwan, Johan Setiawan, M. Fadli, Hadisaputra Hadisaputra
{"title":"Development of learning models for inculcating Pancasila values","authors":"T. Wulandari, A. Widiastuti, Nasiwan Nasiwan, Johan Setiawan, M. Fadli, Hadisaputra Hadisaputra","doi":"10.11591/ijere.v12i3.25687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11591/ijere.v12i3.25687","url":null,"abstract":"The values contained in Pancasila have not been implemented in the life of the Indonesian people properly. This study aims to produce a product in the form of a model of planting Pancasila values. This research is a research and development, using a research and development model from Borg and Gall which is modified into seven development steps. Product validation of the Pancasila values inculcation model by learning technology experts and Pancasila education experts. Techniques data analysis used descriptive statistical analysis. This research resulted in a model named my real action plan for Pancasila (MRAPP). MRAPP is a learning model that can be used to inculcate Pancasila values. The steps of the MRAPP model are as: i) field observations; ii) determining one of the precepts of Pancasila; iii) designing real action; iv) making a schedule of activities and presentation of proposals; v) monitoring the implementation of real action; vi) reporting the process and results of real action; and vii) doing reflection. The results of the validation of the feasibility of the learning model from the validation of learning experts and the validation of Pancasila education experts, namely the MRAPP learning model declared “eligible” to be used as a learning model for inculcating Pancasila values.","PeriodicalId":52277,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44857034","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":"Can the teaching factory model improve the entrepreneurial intentions of vocational high school students?","authors":"Any Sutiadiningsih, Tuatul Mahfud","doi":"10.11591/ijere.v12i3.25652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11591/ijere.v12i3.25652","url":null,"abstract":"Entrepreneurial intentions play an essential role in creating new entrepreneurs. There are many methods of teaching entrepreneurship that aim to form entrepreneurial intentions, and one of them is considered suitable to be applied in vocational high schools, namely factory teaching. This study examined the effect of the teaching factory on entrepreneurial intentions through the theory of planned behavior dimension. There were 280 vocational high school students participated in the study. Data was collected via online questionnaires and analyzed with Amos software using the structural equation modeling method. The teaching factory has been shown to influence students’ entrepreneurial intentions both directly and indirectly via mediators of attitudes toward behavior and perceived behavioral control. This study also provided important implications for vocational practitioners to develop a teaching factory learning model as a school business unit based on the needs of the world of work. Good management of the teaching factory is expected to prepare prospective new entrepreneurs from vocational school graduates.","PeriodicalId":52277,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44886199","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 digital competencies domain and elements for information technology graduates in Malaysia","authors":"A. Ismail, Razali Hassan","doi":"10.11591/ijere.v12i3.23982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11591/ijere.v12i3.23982","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the reliability of an instrument to evaluate digital competencies domain and elements for polytechnics’ information technology (IT) graduates in Malaysia towards future industrial revolution using exploratory factor analysis (EFA). This study thereby obtained 146 items from the previous phase (industries experts’ interview) which was later developed according to the study’s objectives. Experts validated the items, and after that, a pilot study was executed with 102 randomly chosen Polytechnics’ IT lecturers from four Malaysian Polytechnics as the respondents for this study. Four domains had been decided which are Personal Effective Competencies, Functional Competencies, Essential Competencies, and Industrial Revolution 4.0 (4IR) Competencies. Elements for each domain were created using the EFA, in which internal reliability was achieved for all construct dimensions. There were 15 elements gained through EFA for those four domains.","PeriodicalId":52277,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43433706","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}
B. Werang, I. M. Suarjana, Kariyanti Kumala Dewi, S. Asaloei
{"title":"Indonesian language teachers’ teaching performance and students’ learning outcomes","authors":"B. Werang, I. M. Suarjana, Kariyanti Kumala Dewi, S. Asaloei","doi":"10.11591/ijere.v12i3.24949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11591/ijere.v12i3.24949","url":null,"abstract":"Teachers are an important component in modern society because they have a very extraordinary role in the lives of children, especially in the early years of their development. This study aimed to describe the teaching performance of Indonesian language teachers and how it affects the Indonesian language learning outcomes of state junior high school students of Merauke, Indonesia. To achieve this goal, the researchers used a quantitative approach with a survey research design. Data on the teaching performance of Indonesian language teachers were obtained by distributing a survey questionnaire to students who had been designated as respondents, while data on students’ learning outcomes were obtained by getting their academic transcripts. Obtained data were statistically analyzed using the software statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS) version 21. The results showed that the teaching performance of Indonesian language teachers has a significant positive effect on the learning outcomes of the state junior high school students of Merauke, Indonesia. The result indicated the importance of the school principals to focus their efforts to improve the teaching performance of Indonesian language teachers in order that students’ learning outcomes are adequately addressed.","PeriodicalId":52277,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47653429","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}
Muhamad Imaduddin, Muhammad Mujahidus Shofa, M. Riza, A. Fikri
{"title":"Exploring the pre-service basic science teachers’ misconceptions using the six-tier diagnostic test","authors":"Muhamad Imaduddin, Muhammad Mujahidus Shofa, M. Riza, A. Fikri","doi":"10.11591/ijere.v12i3.24603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11591/ijere.v12i3.24603","url":null,"abstract":"This study explored the pre-service basic science teachers’ misconceptions using a six-tier diagnostic (STD) test. This study used a cross-sectional survey research model with respondents, namely pre-service basic science teachers (PBSTs) who are first-year students. The six-tier diagnostic test consisted of three questions about change in matter (CIM), classification of matter (COM), and separation of mixtures (SOM). Each test package consists of six questions ranging from questions at the macroscopic level, microscopic communication, level of confidence, symbolic visualization to represent microscopic conditions, and self-confidence in representing concepts. The combination of answers and decisions in six-tier diagnostic includes scientific conception (SC), almost scientific conception (ASC), lack of confidence (LC), lack of knowledge (LK), misconception (MSC), have no conception (HNC). The study showed that the conceptual mastery condition is dominated by the misconceptions (MSC) category. The condition for pre-service basic science teachers’ mastery concepts having the most scientific conception category is related to changes in matter (CIM), while the condition that shows the least scientific conception category is related to material classification (COM). The results can map the conditions of mastery of the pre-service basic science teachers’ concept so that strategies can be designed to correct the emerging misconceptions.","PeriodicalId":52277,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44320823","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}
Tri Muji Ingarianti, Fendy Suhariadi, Fajrianthi Fajrianthi, Dini Lutfia, Devina Andriany
{"title":"The role of big five personality dimensions in Indonesian teachers’ subjective career success","authors":"Tri Muji Ingarianti, Fendy Suhariadi, Fajrianthi Fajrianthi, Dini Lutfia, Devina Andriany","doi":"10.11591/ijere.v12i3.25158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11591/ijere.v12i3.25158","url":null,"abstract":"Teachers hold strategic roles in the education system, and their career success is important to make sure they are strongly motivated at work. The big five personality is one of the personality approaches to form one’s subjective career success. This study aimed to identify the role of each dimension of the big five personality in affecting teachers’ subjective career success in Indonesia. To this end, the subjective career success inventory and personality item pool-big five factor makers were employed. This quantitative correlational study involved 320 teachers as respondents. The data were analyzed using multiple linear regression test. The result showed that dimensions of extraversion (p<0.000), agreeableness (p<0.000), and conscientiousness (p<0.001) influence Indonesian teachers’ subjective career success. These three dimensions show that teachers in Indonesia tend to have personalities related to other people’s acceptance or awareness of their social environment to attain subjective career success. Such personalities help them consider their personality and its aspects in evaluating their career.","PeriodicalId":52277,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43477973","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}
Rahmat Aziz, Meinarni Susilowati, M. Masturin, Z. Prasojo
{"title":"Teacher-parent collaboration for developing student character in online learning","authors":"Rahmat Aziz, Meinarni Susilowati, M. Masturin, Z. Prasojo","doi":"10.11591/ijere.v12i3.24456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11591/ijere.v12i3.24456","url":null,"abstract":"Teachers, parents, and students have had difficulty with character development exercises in online learning programs. Students’ character quality has suffered as a result of these issues. This study described the essence of reading fondness, learning discipline, and social care in developing the students’ character development. In addition, this study also aimed to analyze the role of teachers and parents in character development during the online learning process. Students, teachers, and parents provided information via online questionnaires and interviews. Descriptive quantitative analysis, thematic analysis, and reflective thinking were used to analyze the data. The findings revealed that teachers and parents faced challenges that impacted student character quality. Teachers and parents have limited opportunities to shape a students’ character. Instead, they must collaborate to develop it. The limitation of this study lies in the online data collection process, thus suggesting the need to use a more in-depth method to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the case.","PeriodicalId":52277,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47006023","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}
Siti Soraya Lin Abdullah Kamal, A. H. Masnan, N. Hashim
{"title":"A systematic literature review on levels and effects of parental involvement in children’s learning","authors":"Siti Soraya Lin Abdullah Kamal, A. H. Masnan, N. Hashim","doi":"10.11591/ijere.v12i3.24293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11591/ijere.v12i3.24293","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this systematic literature review is to analyze the literature on parental participation in their children’s education in primary schools in Malaysia. This review procedure entails searching, screening, evaluating, and synthesizing publications on parental engagement from several electronic databases, including Scopus, Taylor & Francis, ERIC, Google Scholar, MyCite, and Research Gate. The publications included in the analysis were published within the last 10 years (2012–2021). The findings of the analysis reveal that the degree of parental involvement in their children’s education is high in most studies. Furthermore, there are several effects of parental involvement in their children’s education, with a positive effect being the most common. Some challenges faced by parents are also reported, including factors related to parents, children, teachers, and schools. This review suggests that the relationships between parents, teachers, and children could be better organized to maximize the impact of educational opportunities on children. Additionally, more empirically-based studies are needed to enhance our understanding of the effects of parental involvement on children’s learning.","PeriodicalId":52277,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42826708","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}