Nor Aishah Buang

National University of Malaysia | ukm · Department of Foundation of Education

School Improvement Specialist Coaches Plus (SISC+) who started mentoring teachers in Malaysia's as early as 2013 are considered as frontliners in the education system of the new millennium. According to the District Transformation Programmed 3.0 (DTP 3.0), the roles of the SISC+ is underpinned by knowledge and skills in curriculum aspects. The aim...

The aim of this study is to identify higher order thinking skills (HOTS) among Malay language (ML) teachers through a lesson study. Two aspects were explored in order to answer the research questions, namely the nurturing of HOTS and the teaching attitude towards the implementation of the lesson study at school. Qualitative research is the research...

Entrepreneurship has become a more important career nowadays. However, in Malaysia it has been seen as a second or last as a career choice, especially among Malaysian Indians. The purpose of this study is to examine the Malaysian Indian Undergraduates' entrepreneurial behavior level and its contribution that leads their intention to choose entrepre...

Entrepreneurship has become a more important career nowadays. However, in Malaysia it has been seen as a second or last as a career choice, especially among Malaysian Indians. The purpose of this study is to examine the Malaysian Indian Undergraduates' entrepreneurial behavior level and its contribution that leads their intention to choose entrepre...

Entrepreneurship involves processes of starting and managing a venture and business of a company or organization. The entrepreneurs are responsible in developing their own business plan, acquire human and other available resources. Entrepreneurship is an essential field for a nation's economic development because it creates job opportunities and br...

This study was aimed to identify the level of intention of the Graduates Entrepreneur Scheme (GES) participants towards entrepreneurship career choice behavior. A total of 364 GES participants from year 2003 to 2006 have been selected as respondents in this study. This quantitative research employs a survey technique with a set of questionnaire as...

In the past, open innovation has been studied from the perspective of manufacturing businesses, while services have received much less attention, regardless of the predominant role they play in advanced economies. The present study focuses on open service innovation in tourism industry. We study the moderating effect of competition intensity on the...

In the past, open innovation has been studied from the perspective of manufacturing businesses, while services have received much less attention, regardless of the predominant role they play in advanced economies. The present study focuses on open service innovation in tourism industry. We study the moderating effect of competition intensity on the...

This paper discusses the use of a problem-focused approach to nurture creativity and entrepreneurship among students in a school setting. The study sample consisted of three groups of students (age 16 years old) from three secondary schools in Malaysia. The participants consist of 25–35 students from each school (n=95). The data collection took pla...

The retailers have a tendency to involve in the procedure of buying and to produce an atmosphere to convince the people for buying goods. The overall purpose of the paper is to gain insights into impulse buying behavior among Iranian shoppers and to arrive at a better understanding on how situational, personal, and product related factors influence...

Sellers tend to engage in the process of shopping and to create an environment to persuade people to purchase goods. Based on previous studies, factors that cause an impulse purchase can be categorized to person-related, situational related, shopping-environment related and product-related. In this research, for the first time the moderating effect...

This qualitative study aims to determine the science teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and its components applied by them in the teaching of entrepreneurial science thinking (EST) by using the EST module. The teaching of entrepreneurial science thinking is an effort to cultivate students' thinking to apply their scientific knowledge in...

This study aimed at identifying the relationship between the success factors of succession in terms of preparation of heirs, the relationship between family and business as well as planning and control activities to smooth transition process. In addition, the smoothness of the transition process was also studied to determine its relationship with p...

Entrepreneurship has a tremendous impact on the economic development of a country. As can be expected, many public policies foster the development of self- entrepreneurship in times of unemployment, praise the creation of firms and con- sider the willingness to start new ventures as a sign of good fortune. Are those behaviours inherent to a human b...

Abstrak. Subjek Pengajian Keusahawanan akan diajarkan di sekolah-sekolah menengah seluruh Malaysia sebagai satu subjek elektif di bawah kumpulan Teknik dan Vokasional. Kandungan subjek ini tertumpu pada hal ehwal yang berkaitan dengan pendidikan keusahawanan. Kajian ini bertujuan meninjau kesediaan guru-guru Perdagangan yang akan mengajar subjek ap...

The purpose of this study was to find out whether knowledge, attitude and concept mapping usage among the form four students have relationships with the Foundations of Economics subject achievement. The respondents consisted of 143 respondents from five selected schools in the district of Hulu Langat, Selangor. A survey design was used which employ...

This exploratory study examines the content of student teachers’ reflective thinking that has undergone a guided reflective thinking process. An action research methodology was employed to examine the effect of the action plan on the quality of the student teachers’ content of reflective thinking. Their reflective entries were analysed for the cont...

The purpose of this study was to explore the entrepreneurship career paths of Malaysian graduate entrepreneurs who graduated from local and overseas higher learning institutions between the years of 1988 to 2003. The paths explored in this study include career-changing phases starting from early career intentions up to business start-ups. This stud...

The subject of buying especially impulse buying for many marketing researchers is attractive and fascinating. Retailers interest in work in process of buying and create a situation to pursue individuals to purchase goods. The objectives of this study were to investigate: (a) to determine the level of impulse buying between Iranian( tourists ) in Ma...

The subject of buying especially impulse buying for many marketing researchers is attractive and fascinating. Retailers interest in work in process of buying and create a situation to pursue individuals to purchase goods. The objectives of this study were to investigate: (a) to determine the level of impulse buying between Iranian(tourists) in Mala...

This study examines the effect of action research on the professional development of supervisor and student teacher in a practicum setting. In this collaborative action research, both the supervisor and student teacher identified problems of teaching physics for 16 years old students, planned an action to overcome it,excuted and reflect on the effe...

The purpose of conducting this action research in the GR6223 course (Science, Technology and Entrepreneurship) was to improve lecturers’ facilitative skills based on PBL approach to develop a module. The findings were the masters students did not understand what was a module, were not familiar with the unique features of a module and had never expe...

The aim of this study is to how pre-service teachers developed their PCK with the assistance of the supervisor during teaching practice. This study employs an action research methodology examining what aspects of the supervisory skills that help promote pre service teachers’ PCK and the effect of the action plan on their development of PCK. Three s...

This paper reports on the level of scientific culture among Malaysian and Japanese students. Japanese students were used as comparison because Malaysia looks at to Japan as a model for science and technology development. The findings suggest that the level of scientific culture of Malaysian students is significantly higher than that of Japanese stu...

Based on the need to develop the nation’s science and technological advancement through science education, science educationists are searching for a suitable learning model that integrates innovative technological thinking. One way in conceptualizing this learning model, this study seeks to understand the thinking of scientist entrepreneurs who had...

The purpose of this study is to find out what are the motivating factors that influence class F contractors to become entrepreneurs. Those motivating factors include family background, education background, and psychological factors such as sense of freedom, satisfaction, innovation, success, recognition and important roles. The conceptual framewor...

ABSTRAK Kajian kualitatif ini dijalankan untuk mendapat maklumat terkini tentang peluang-peluang pekerjaan yang dijawat oleh populasi berkeperluan khas di Malaysia dan kaedah bancian telah digunakan. Responden kajian adalah individu berkeperluan khas yang mempunyai pekerjaan di institusi, swasta atau yang bekerja sendiri. Data dianalisis secara kua...