Mohd Ali Samsudin

• PhD
• University of Science Malaysia

This quantitative exploratory study delves into the perceptions of Malaysian teachers, investigating the interplay between three dimensions of teacher professional identity and the dual forces of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in fortifying their resilience against the multifaceted challenges of teaching in public schools. Employing a cross-sec...

Purpose The study aims to examine the YouTube videos of Malaysia and Indonesia’s education systems to determine what connections exist among curriculum, teacher, accessibility and equity. Design/methodology/approach Data included YouTube videos about the education system in Malaysia and Indonesia. The most influential YouTube videos about the educ...

STEM fields are the driving force in advancing society and providing opportunities for personal and professional growth, from medical breakthroughs to new transportation methods. STEM fields are crucial in innovations and technological advancements that have improved our lives. As the world changes and new challenges arise, the importance of STEM e...

Purpose: This study applies the Theory of Consumption Value (TCV) to explore the direct effects of functional, emotional, social, and conditional values on the continuance consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) among university students. Additionally, Rational Choice Theory (RCT) serves as the underpinning framework to examine how the perceive...

In the realm of science education, particularly in renewable energy, innovative and engaging teaching methods are crucial. Acknowledging the growing significance of renewable energy sources, this study investigates the effectiveness of Minecraft Education as a platform for teaching solar photovoltaic (PV) concepts to forty secondary school students...

Education for sustainable development recognizes the ways, in which teachers improve education, by utilizing their skills to the fullest extent and reconsidering the conditions of the teaching profession. The relationship between teachers’ professional identity and teachers’ emotions is an issue that needs to be studied as a basis for improving the...

BACKGROUND Social media are an integral part of the modern lifestyle and the digital learning environment in medical education is flourishing with cutting-edge social network technologies. Currently, there is scarce data and research about the use of social media and the role of Twitter use in medical education. OBJECTIVE This study will examine t...

BACKGROUND Chatbots are smart informal computer systems that simulate human discussion and allow computerized online assistance. Currently, there is no research about the context of a discussion regarding the use of the Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT) among communities of different fields. OBJECTIVE This study will explore the ex...

Background. In the current era, Twitter is an increasingly popular tool for the dissemination of information as a social media voice. Social media is a valid, but underutilized, education tool at medical education institutions. Social media technologies provide opportunities for the presentation of information in alternative and multiple formats to...

This paper analysed the effect of the design thinking approach on the student’s awareness of marine and coastal environmental sustainability. The paper employed an experimental design and utilised a sample of 35 students using an online questionnaire through a Google form validated by experts in educational research. Based on the analysis of their...

Background. In the current era, Twitter is an increasingly popular tool for the dissemination of information as a social media voice. Social media is a valid, but underutilized, education tool at medical education institutions. Social media technologies provide opportunities for the presentation of information in alternative and multiple formats to...

In TVET teaching and learning, learners’ collaboration is important to ensure learning effectiveness. However, employing either design thinking or online problem-based learning would not lead to fruitarian. Hence, to devise teaching and learning that employs design thinking (DT) and online problem-based learning (ePBL) pedagogies used in tandem wit...

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education should focus on producing scientific and innovative society as emphasized in the Malaysia Education Blueprint for Higher Education (2015-2025). The blueprint states STEM education to be practised at higher education institutions to produce competent graduates. This study echoed the...

The study investigated the effect of using a design thinking teaching method on male and female students’ achievement in some selected secondary school physics concepts in the context of STEM learning. The study was carried out in an afterschool environment which necessitated the researcher using a single group quasi experimental research design co...

Background: This paper focuses on advances in crowd control study with an emphasis on high-density crowds, particularly Hajj crowds. Video analysis and visual surveillance have been of increasing importance in order to enhance the safety and security of pilgrimages in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Hajj is considered to be a particularly distinctive event,...

Since the coronavirus pandemic spread in Malaysia, there are increase discussions on the issue related to SMEs in Malaysia. These conversations have included social media users’ assistance to SMEs. The government extended assistance to SMEs either in kind or through various programs. Twitter, a popular social network site (SNS) is the leading platf...

This study examined the effectiveness of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) integrated approach via Scratch on five subconstructs of computational thinking (CT) among 29 male and 30 female students. A quasi-experimental design was employed in the research. The participants demonstrated the application of CT in designing game...

Background: This paper focuses on advances in crowd control study with an emphasis on high-density crowds, particularly Hajj crowds. Video analysis and visual surveillance have been of increasing importance in order to enhance the safety and security of pilgrimages in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Hajj is considered to be a particularly distinctive event,...

Background: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a complex developmental condition that involves persistent challenges in social interaction, speech, and nonverbal communication, in addition to repetitive or restrictive behaviours. For decades, children with ASD have been familiarising themselves with information and communication technologies (ICT) i...

This paper advances video analytics with a focus on crowd analysis for Hajj and Umrah pilgrimages. In recent years, there has been an increased interest in the advancement of video analytics and visible surveillance to improve the safety and security of pilgrims during their stay in Makkah. It is mainly because Hajj is an entirely special event tha...

The comprehensiveness of teacher professional identity (TPI) studies conducted by African and Asian researchers highlights the importance of valid TPI indicators across Africa and Asia. Questionnaire TPI indicators are important to obtain valid direct comparisons between teachers in Africa and Asia. The process of developing a questionnaire served...

Through a search executed on Web of Science database with general keywords pertaining to ‘teaching fractions’ or ‘understanding fractions’ and ‘representation’, this study utilized PRISMA’s procedure in analysing previously published articles. This review reveals seven articles in inclusion criteria and seventeenth articles in exclusion criteria wi...

Scientific and innovative society can be produced by giving priorities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) as emphasized by Malaysian Higher Education Blueprint (2015-2025). STEM need to be implemented at higher education because universities need to produce competent graduates to support economy growth and sustainable devel...

Kajian ini dijalankan bagi melihat kesan sistem web e-SOLMS (e-Student Oriented Learning Management System) terhadap tahap kesediaan pembelajaran terarah kendiri pelajar melalui pendekatan pembelajaran terarah kendiri secara atas talian di Politeknik Kementerian Pengajian Tinggi Malaysia. Kajian ini didasari oleh pembelajaran konstruktivism dan men...

Education, research, and innovation have an impact on economic development in the world today. In a highly competitive economy, the government needs to concentrate on technologies to increase the value of production by concentrating on using innovative thinking to solve the problem. This study aimed to improve the creative thinking of students thro...

There is a wide collection of journal articles and academic discourse on family firms’ social capital. However, the focus on the comprehensive synthesis of the collections is limited. The lack of efforts to synthesize the issue of family firms’ social capital focuses on emerging economies further limiting the utility of the literature. Despite th...

The main aim of the presented research was to examine the interaction between student’s gender and achievements in learning concepts of electricity via STEAM integrated approach utilizing Scratch. This research was aimed to determine the gender disparity for lower-secondary school students in learning about the concepts of electricity. Quasi-experi...

Through a search executed on Scopus database with general keywords such as ‘mathematical language’ and related terms, this study reveals the analysis of previous published articles based on PRISMA’s procedure where it guides researchers’ self-regulated learning on online platform. This review exhibits both inclusion and exclusion criteria in the pu...

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Project-Based Learning (PjBL) is increase effectiveness, create meaningful learning and influence student attitudes in future career pursuit. There are several studies in the literature reporting different aspects of STEM into a PjBL pedagogy. However, the effect of implementing STEM PjBL in t...

The purpose of the research is to produce the item bank to measure polytechnics students' performance in Mathematics algebra topic. Computerized Adaptive Test, an adaptive mode of testing that has the features to measure the performance of test takers based on their ability level. Computerized Adaptive Test has the ability to precisely target test...

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Project-Based Learning (PjBL) is increase effectiveness, create meaningful learning and influence student attitudes in future career pursuit. There are several studies in the literature reporting different aspects of STEM into a PjBL pedagogy. However, the effect of implementing STEM PjBL in t...

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Project-Based Learning (PjBL) is increase effectiveness, create meaningful learning and influence student attitudes in future career pursuit. There are several studies in the literature reporting different aspects of STEM into a PjBL pedagogy. However, the effect of implementing STEM PjBL in t...

Although much work has been done on computerized-adaptive test (CAT) in reducing anxiety towards exam, CAT in Malaysian educational setting is less explored among educational researchers. Some of the reason is due to technical difficulty in developing, maintaining the testing bank items, and insufficient hardware facilities for huge number of exami...

Problem-based learning (PBL) is a type of student-centred educational approach where students learn a topic via their experience in solving open-ended problems. In PBL, elements of active, interactive, and collaborative learning are incorporated to allow teachers to observe their students’ learning process. The contexts of problems in PBL are in th...

This research aims to examine the effectiveness of the Concept Cartoon approach in enhancing students' attitude towards science. A Quasi-experimental research design was employed involving 60 primary school students from two schools in Penang, Malaysia. Data was analyzed using One-Way-ANCOVA approach. Thirty students from school A were assigned as...

This study examined the factors that influence students’ learning for machine industry courses in Malaysian Southern Region Vocational Colleges. The factors that have been studied were the students’ interest, parental involvement and teachers teaching. This study used the survey design method involving 90 randomly selected 4th year students from th...

Japan’s continual excellent achievement in TIMSS has led to many research and discussions of the Japanese school system as a way of understanding the factors and system that underlie Japan’s success in TIMSS. However, comparative studies have focused more on cognitive skills and less on non-cognitive skills as plausible factors for the continual su...

Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) is based on the pedagogical process of observation where students will learn progressively through active group interaction. CSCL is an emerging branch of the learning sciences concerned with studying on how people can learn together with the help of computers. Thus, this research was conducted to me...

Due to the recent development of computer power and information technology, augmented reality (AR) is commonly found to be one of the interactive experience of a real-world environment refers to the objects are augmented by computer generated information. Previously , there is a number of studies have discussed the importance of AR technologies in...

Due to the recent development of computer power and information technology, augmented reality (AR) is commonly found to be one of the interactive experience of a real-world environment refers to the objects are augmented by computer generated information. Previously, there is a number of studies have discussed the importance of AR technologies in v...

This study examined the factors that influence students’ learning for machine industry courses in Malaysian Southern Region Vocational Colleges. The factors that have been studied were the students’ interest, parental involvement and teachers teaching. This study used the survey design method involving 90 randomly selected 4 th year students from t...

Abstract This concept paper discussed the development of science teacher education programs in Malaysia. The discussion encompassed the existing policies, practices and issues, arising from the science teacher education. This paper also reviewed some suggestions for the direction in pre-service training and in-service science teacher training. The...

21st century way of learning is one of the transformations lauded by the Ministry of Education Malaysia in the Malaysian Education Blueprint (2013-2015) to equip students with communication skills, critical thinking and collaboration or recognized as Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS). This 21st century learning requires suitable teaching aids to...

The purpose of this study is to examine the extent to which home context, classroom context and school context influence students' science achievement in Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2011. This study involved a total of 5733 respondents from 180 secondary schools in Malaysia based on TIMSS 2011 data. Random sampling...

Today's learners will face increasing global competition for college entrance and jobs after graduation. They need to succeed in work, life and citizenship, as well as skills that are necessary for 21st century. Teaching and learning’s in the 21st century has to put the emphasis on the 4Cs, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, and communic...

This study aimed to investigate the effects of ‘science learning based on the socio-scientific issues with Islamic values (PSBIS-NI)’ on form four secondary school students’ attitudes towards the socio-scientific issues. PSBIS-NI is a learning method that focuses on the socio-scientific issues with the integration of Islamic values. A learning modu...

The main goal of education is to prepare students for future job opportunities and civic responsibilities, and this is one of the biggest challenges in the 21st century. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Project-Based Learning (PjBL) prepare students to master their new role as a global citizen with greater responsibilities....

The main goal of education is to prepare students for future job opportunities and civic responsibilities, and this is one of the biggest challenges in the 21st century. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Project-Based Learning (PjBL) prepare students to master their new role as a global citizen with greater responsibilities....

Today's learners will face increasing global competition for college entrance and jobs after graduation. They need to succeed in work, life and citizenship, as well as skills that are necessary for 21st century. Teaching and learning’s in the 21st century has to put the emphasis on the 4Cs, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, and communic...

Teaching and learning’s main goal, preparing students for future job opportunity and civic responsibility, has become one of the 21st century’s biggest challenges. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Project Based Learning (PjBL) prepares students to learn community responsibility and master their new roles as global citizens. This sy...

A publication trend in Physics Education by employing bibliometric analysis leads the researchers to describe current scientific movement. This paper tries to answer "What do Physics education scientists concentrate in their publications?" by analyzing the productivity and development of publications on the subject category of Physics Education in...

The Engineering Drawing subject develops skills in geometry drawing becoming more professional. For the concept in Engineering Drawing, students need to have good visualization skills. Visualization is needed to help students get a start before translating into a drawing. So that, Problem Based Learning (PBL) using animation mode (PBL-A) and graphi...

This study compares the effects between free-choice learning (FCL) and problem-based learning (PBL) in a virtual science centre. It is hypothesized that effective approach to communicate virtual science centre content has a significance impact on improving visitors’ scientific literacy. Three constructs of scientific literacy identified were genera...

Pembelajaran sains secara tidak formal telah dijalankan melalui Program Makmal Sains Bergerak. Program ini merupakan program kemasyarakatan yang dijalankan oleh pensyarah dari Pusat Pengajian Ilmu Pendidikan (PPIP) di Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) dan dibantu oleh pelajar dan staf sebagai fasilitator. Program ini mengandungi 12 stesen mini yang b...

This study aims to examine the factors related to students' science achievement in TIMSS 2011. This study involved a total of 5733 respondents from 180 secondary schools in Malaysia based on TIMSS 2011 data. Random sampling using a two-stage stratified cluster sampling technique was done in selecting the sample. This study also proposes a model con...

Instrumen Motivasi Pembelajaran Pelajar (MPP) adalah merupakan instrumen yang dibangunkan bagi mengukur tahap motivasi pelajar untuk belajar. Instrumen MPP dibangunkan hasil daripada adaptasi intrumen ”Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionaire” (MSLQ) yang dibangunkan oleh Pintrich (1993). Instrumen MSLQ ini diadaptasi supaya penggunaan instru...

This research aimed to investigate whether online problem based learning (PBL) approach to teach renewable energy topic improves students’ behaviour towards energy conservation. A renewable energy online problem based learning (REePBaL) instruction package was developed based on the theory of constructivism and adaptation of the online learning mod...

Journal of Elementary Education, 26 (1), 23-38. The study was a comparative analysis of the effects of inquiry-based and non-inquiry based multiple intelligence approach on pupils’ interest in learning science. The study employed a quasi-experimental research design that used two intact classes of thirty (30) pupils each assigned to two groups, the...

International Journal of Research in Social Science, June 2016, 6 (6). The interplay between teachers' professional identities and their contextual factors in Malaysia and Bangladesh were compared in the study. The study employed the use of a qualitative approach through structured interviews and discussion with novice teachers in the two regions i...

The International Journal of Humanities and Social Studies, 4 (2), 324-330. This study focuses attention on a comparative analysis of teachers’ professional identities in Malaysia and Vietnam. Study employed a qualitative approach in its investigation of novice teachers’ professional identities for consequent comparison in the two countries of stud...

Journal of Research in Social Sciences-JRSS January 2016 Vol: 4 Number 1.ISSN: (E) 2306-112X (P) 2305-6533- This study by qualitative approach investigated the impact of using a designed virtual science centre on acquisition of scientific knowledge and scientific reasoning of students. The paper highlighted the importance of virtual learning centre...

The Social Sciences 10(7), 1645-1653, ISSN: 1818-5800, Medwell Journals. This research examined the moderating effects of gender on the structural model of innovation orientation among university undergraduates in Malaysia. This research connected the constructs' relationships to the gender moderating effect in order to explam Innovation orientatio...

This research aims to produce innovation orientation survey items for quantitative research use in the context of undergraduates in Malaysia. The hypothesized model of innovation orientation consists of creativity, innovation motivation, entrepreneurial orientation and entrepreneurial self-efficacy constructs. These five constructs was established...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the rate of participation and find out the barriers of employee participation in the programs of physical education and physical activities health-related of Mobarakeh Steel Company. To design an educational physical activities program, it is necessary to explore and identify inhibitory factors for behavior...

(2015) Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, Vol. 38 No. 1, 60 – 76 This study was undertaken to explore the effects of informal science learning outside the classroom on preschool students’ achievement in the Early Science learning topic (plant-related topics that presented concepts about tree leaves, height and roots) u...

(2015), International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, Vol 4, No 3, 46-59. The purpose of this study is to compare the influence of three teaching methods, as represented by problem-based learning (PBL), the PBL with lecture method, and the conventional teaching on undergraduate physics students' group work sk...

(2015), Sains Humanika, Vol 7, No 1, 43-51. This study is done to know whether the judges’ ratings results in the same decisions for candidates of the same ability and to show the relative severity of the different judges. The Many-facets Rasch Measuring Model (MFRM) is used in this study to determine the validity and reliability of raters’ severi...

(2015), Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), Vol 9, No. 4. The paper focused attention on comparing the effect of inquiry based multiple intelligence approach and non-inquiry based multiple intelligence approach on achievement of pupils in some selected primary schools. Two primary schools were selected purposively with one intact class f...

Malaysian Journal of Distance Education 16(2), 39−57 (2014). This study examined the effect of online project-based learning (e-PBL) on Form Four science students’ attitudes towards renewable energy (RE). The study applied a quasi-experimental method with “A Design Group Pre- and Post-Test” The sample experimental group consisted of 48 Form Four s...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the measurement model invariance across genders for the Malaysian Undergraduates’ Innovation Orientation (MUIO) instrument scale. A sample of 2,507 participants (Male=985, Female=1,522) in Malaysian public universities gave their responses to a 24-item self-reported, 4-point scale designed to measure fiv...

Reporting of medication errors in Malaysia is currently low. Consequently, the objective of the study is to explore the perceptions of doctors and pharmacists towards reporting of medication errors and to explore perceived factors that could cause or prevent medication errors. The study was a cross-sectional mail survey. All eight primary outpatien...

The aim of this Structural Equation Modeling for Intermediate Module is to aid novice user of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) in understanding the application and how to conduct Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) to test hypothesized measurement model and measurement invariance between two identitical measurement models across two groups. Expect...

The aim of this Structural Equation Modeling for Beginner Module is to aid novice user of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) in understanding the basic application and how start a research analysis of SEM employing one of the examples of model fitting program. Expectation of the author is that students following this module will be competent to kic...

Objective: Reporting of medication errors in Malaysia is currently low. Consequently, the objective of the study is to explore the perceptions of doctors and pharmacists towards reporting of medication errors and to explore perceived factors that could cause or prevent medication errors. Method: The study was a cross-sectional mail survey. All eigh...

This research examines mediation effect of entrepreneurial self-efficacy on the causal relationship between creativity, entrepreneurial orientation and innovation motivation exertion into innovation orientation among undergraduates in Malaysian public universities. This mediation analysis lends support from the Social Cognitive Theory of Self-Regul...

Rendering students resilient and intellectually rigorous is a primary objective of education in Malaysia. The Education Ministry has emphasised the enhancement of problem-solving and critical thinking skills, but reported that the skills performance of students in secondary schools and higher education is below the targeted proficiency level. Accor...

(2015). Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), Volume 9, No. 1, 53-60 This study was undertaken to identify the relationship between multiple intelligences with preferred science teaching and science process skills. The design of the study is a survey using three questionnaires reported in the literature: Multiple Intelligences Questionnai...

This research examined the moderating effects of gender on the structural model of innovation orientation among university undergraduates in Malaysia. This research connected the constructs' relationships to the gender moderating effect in order to explain innovation orientation phenomenon and to confirm the Gender Constant Theory. The research emp...

A publication trend in Physics Education by employing bibliometric analysis leads the researchers to describe current scientific movement. This paper tries to answer “What do Physics education scientists concentrate in their publications?” by analyzing the productivity and development of publications on the subject category of Physics Education in...

Science learning is far more complex and not only limited to learning in the classroom. There is one type of learning that can complement formal learning in school that is known as informal science learning. Informal science learning can occur and has been conducted in various ways. This paper discusses a study conducted in Malaysia which utilized...

Lecture method is still need to a part of PBL in order to explain the difficult and abstract concepts in all fields of physics particularly thermodynamics. Introducing and promoting PBL in the lecture method is wise step for innovation in teaching and learning. The objective of this study is to compare the effects of using three methods: problem-ba...

Bringing the World of Science Centre to Primary School" is designed as a university-community project that enable knowledge transferring occurs from the University to target communities such as teachers, students in targeted district (Kuala Muda, Kedah). This project is implemented through several phases such as developing science kits (based on lo...

The aim of this study is to compare the effects of three methods: problem-based learning (PBL), PBL with lecture method, and conventional teaching on self-directed learning skills among physics undergraduates. The actual sample size comprises of 122 students, who were selected randomly from the Physics Department, College of Education in Iraq. In t...