Ahmad Othman

• PhD, M.Ed, BScEEE, DipEE
• Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Corporate Development) at University College of Poly-Tech MARA Kuala Lumpur

Teaching and learning facilities have a great impact on students’ academic performances of externally examined professional accountancy program i.e. Association of Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA) Qualification. Learning to pass ACCA fundamental and professional examined papers is challenging nowadays and inadequate of such teaching and learni...

Various tests have been conducted using the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and it has provided adequate evidence to measure anxiety in research and clinical settings. This paper proposes a re-test to evaluate STAI among engineering students in Malaysia. A total 253 engineering students participated in this study. The re-test was presented for...

In this paper, we present a pilot study of pre- post treatment toward overcoming anxiety in improving academic performance for engineering's students. The anxiety level measurement was used to examine the effect of the intervention, as well to acquire the prior finding on the effectiveness of a treatment to reduce anxiety in improving academic perf...

Anxiety can be referred as an underlying source of students’ fears during their study process. Several researches have proposed and identified the anxiety sources among students. However, not many proposals are concerned on validating the instrument of study anxiety sources. In this paper, the validation of the instrument of study anxiety sources i...

The Catastrophe model in which the theory attempts to explain the interaction of physiological arousal cognitive anxiety affect on sport's performance. The model is important to understand the influence of anxiety upon performance. This research proposes a model to understand the effect of anxiety upon academic performance. The research consists wi...

Recently, the evaluation of knowledge management has become increasingly important. Nevertheless, few studies explicitly distinguished knowledge management self's performance from its effectiveness. This paper introduces a new evaluation model by partitioning the process of implementing knowledge management into three stages, including: 1) the exte...

In today's global networked economy, integrated information system is a vital fundamental to a competitive advantage. In order to survive or succeed in the future characterized by radical pace of changing, organizations need to think of ways to integrate, automate as well as intelligentize their operational systems, both internally and externally....

Many organizations that are adept in leveraging and capitalizing their knowledge resources have been convinced to obtain performance improvement and business success. But despite dedicated attempts to follow the prescribed knowledge management guides and success path, SMEs are still encountering uncertainties and face the threat of potential failur...

The construction industry is one of the most important sectors that contribute to the well being of the nation's economy. However in recent years, there are still a lot of projects that fail to be completed on schedule due to several factors. Based on past research and studies, among the main factors that cause project failure due to the weakness o...

Mathematics anxiety is one of the psychological barriers that students encounter when they are performing a mathematics task. This study explores the source or factors related to mathematics anxiety among engineering students in Universiti Malaysia Pahang. A total 770 students participated in this survey. The finding indicated that mathematics anxi...

Anxiety is one of the major predictors of academic performance. Students with anxiety disorder display a passive attitude in their studies such as lack of interest in learning, poor performance in exams, and on assignments. This research observes the relationship between study anxiety level and students’ academic performance. The test to find out a...

Work is a demand for an adult, because through working, person can actualize their skill and achieve theiraspiration. Beside that through working, person can meets their basic needs of life. Yet, working also has ahidden threat that can be suddenly attack and eradicate the well being of person. Those hidden threat is calledas a strain and stress.Th...

Anxiety is one of the wide varieties of emotional and behaviour disorders, it is a major predictor of low academic performance. To this, anxiety should be taken seriously. Students needed some intervention to reduce anxiety in improving academic performance. Study anxiety intervention is designed to help students handling the problem regarding of t...

University students suffer to some levels of study anxiety, such as; have new experiences, environment and situation. Study anxiety is a real phenomenon. Campus environment has universal access to increase study anxiety among students. The prevalence of study anxiety has been acknowledged by students and educators. However, no current researches ex...

Lecturers are not only required to possess knowledge, but they also must have the skills to deliver knowledge using different teaching methods so that the delivery of knowledge more easily planned and delivered. If one possesses great knowledge will not guarantee him or her to be an effective deliverer, particularly in engineering programme where n...

University students need some support program to improve the academic performance. Biofeedback training is one of the effectiveness programs to help students handling the problem regarding of their study process. In this research, the biofeedback training to manage study anxiety in order to increase academic performance among students is proposed....

This paper tries to discuss the new tasks of industry personnel as coaches in the National Dual Training System (NDTS), a newly introduced training initiative for producing k-workers in Malaysia. The decision to introduce this initiative was made by the Malaysian Cabinet on the 19 th May 2004 with the hope that it will resolve the issue of skilled...