Yoon Fah Lay

• Professor of Science Education
• Professor at Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) Kota Kinabalu Sabah Malaysia

Previous research has indicated that attitudes influence various factors contributing to scientific achievement. Inadequate performance in science can limit career opportunities, underscoring the importance of comprehending how attitudes towards science can enhance overall scientific achievement. This study explored the mediating effect of attitude...

Introduction Art college students are under special pressure from a few sources, including study, employment, friends, emotions, family relations and other aspects. This can lead to a reasonable degree of learning burnout among art college students, which will have a negative impact on their physical and mental health, as well as their study and em...

The study explores the determinants of lifelong music learning intention among university students, focusing on the mediating roles of attitude toward music learning, perceived social support, and perceived music learning feasibility in the relationship between authoritative parenting style and lifelong music learning intention. This study used str...

Likert scales were used in this study to collect data on measures such as the student academic burnout scale, the student stress scale, the student self-efficacy beliefs scale and the student perceived teacher support scale. The purpose of this study is to examine the four-part scales' reliability and validity used in this research. The number of m...

The global impact of COVID in 2020 is forcing higher education institutions in many countries to adopt a hybrid model of education. The shift to blended education has been trending globally. However, the change in pedagogy has reduced the quality of students’ learning experience and prevented them from deep learning. Therefore, the current study co...

This study explores the integration of visual programming language in science experiments. The study employs a quasi-experimental design with a one-group pretest-posttest-only design. It examines the perceptions of the students before and after the integration. The experiment also investigates whether visual programming language can be integrated i...

Previous research has indicated that attitudes influence various factors contributing to scientific achievement. Inadequate performance in science can limit career opportunities, underscoring the importance of comprehending how attitudes towards science can enhance overall scientific achievement. This study explored the mediating effect of attitude...

Lifelong music learning is the key to the sustainable development of music education. Understanding students’ behavioral intention in lifelong music learning becomes a foundation for realizing students’ participation in lifelong music learning. University students’ lifelong music learning intentions are related to “past behavior,” “high-demanding p...

Technological innovations in digital era has modified the landscape of education to be in line with industrial revolution,but created some psycho-sociological impacts to the society affecting healthy lifestyle. This paper reports on values-based sustainable STREAM education (VabsSTREAM) blended-mode transdisciplinary approaches to learning outcomes...

This study focuses on six variables that impact teachers' use of technology in their instructional leadership: usage expectancy (UE), social influence (SI), enabling circumstances (FC), behavioural intention (BI), computer self-efficacy (CSE) and blended teaching competency. This study aimed to examine the reliability and validity of modified scale...

The ubiquity of instructional leadership integrated with technology has necessitated research into the application of instructional leadership and its influencing factors. The aim of this study is to investigate contributing factors to in-service teachers’ informatization instructional leadership by determining the relationship between use expectan...

Introduction In the post-epidemic era, blended learning has become a social trend for the future of higher education, and scholars have endeavored to understand the factors that influence student learning in these blended communities. Communities of Inquiry is a conceptual framework that describes the components of blended learning environments, in...

The 16-item Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey (MBI-SS) was translated into simplified Chinese (MBI-SS-C) and tested for reliability and validity among Chinese art college students. A sample of 437 students from a Beijing art college was analyzed. The MBI-SS-C with 16 items shows relatively poor psychological measurement characteristics for i...

Educational data mining (EDM) in online learning involves data mining techniques to analyze data from online environments to gain insights into student behavior, performance, and engagement. This study explored EDM in online learning publication trends and focuses. It involved a bibliometric analysis of 615 scholarly works related to EDM in online...

The Influence of Achievement Motivation and The Need for Regular Life on The Formation of The Islamic Personality of IAIN Kudus

Pre-university education in Singapore serves as a bridge between secondary and university education. Despite its importance and the popularity of mathematics as a subject, few studies have been conducted on Singapore pre-university mathematics. We also notice that problems in real-world contexts have been increasingly emphasised in the Singapore ma...

This research is a development research which aims to develop textbooks with a Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) approach to teach the creative thinking skills of Pancasila and Citizenship Education for elementary school students. To achieve the research objectives, Lee & Owens development research was carried out using the ADDIE model which i...

This research aims to reveal the creativity of teacher pedagogy with creative and participatory learning in provoking the curiosity, activeness and enthusiasm of students. The application of pedagogical creativity as a search or an effective way to develop pedagogical creativity makes it possible to establish that innovative technologies have great...

The integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in science learning has been identified as an important component in the transformation process of many educational systems to impart the technology skills that is an essential 21st century skills to serve the new learning paradigm among the Net Generation students. In the advent of...

This research is motivated by the importance of student behavior in mitigating the COVID-19 disaster. As the number of positive cases continues to grow, it is necessary to take steps to prevent COVID-19. This study discusses the analysis of student behavior, especially in elementary schools in dealing with the Coronavirus Disease-19 outbreak. The p...

The remarkable upsurge in the attention for STEM education globally has inspired many countries including Malaysia to formulate STEM education policies to reform the existing segmented teaching of the four STEM subjects towards integrated teaching. One of the Malaysian government’s initiatives include establishing a framework as a guide for teacher...

This study describes the effect of science teachers’ cognizance of technological knowledge, technological content and pedagogical knowledge towards augmented reality across five age groups. This pilot study involved 44 science teachers from Penang, Malaysia using a 5-point Likert scale instrument. The administered survey instruments consisted of 18...

Developing conceptual and procedural knowledge or skills of learners is ‘part and parcel’ of the roles of educators involved in teaching science and social science subjects. This article aims to espouse numerous educational reforms implemented locally, regionally, and internationally during the past decades, with exemplars and challenges elaborated...

Multiple choice tests are widely applied to assess students’ knowledge in science education. This study aimed at assessing the validity and reliability of Science Multiple-choice Test in Malaysia. The items for this test were formulated by the researcher together with a panel of science teachers and the head of the science department with close ref...

The main purpose of this study is to develop a valid and reliable instrument to measure the STEM-Science achievement of primary school students in Malaysia. Six Year 4 Science topics (Scientific Skills, Life Processes of Human, Properties of Materials, Measurement, Solar System, Importance of Technologies in Life) and Six Year 5 Science topics (Rul...

Self-efficacy scales have been used widely across curriculum and demographic structures, while retaining their objectivity in a specific domain. This pilot study aimed to test the validity and reliability of adapted scales that incorporated four sources of self-efficacy (mastery experiences, vicarious experiences, social persuasion, and emotional a...

Since 1995, the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) implemented the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) as an international comparative study. This article aims at identifying the correlations of science classroom instructions with TIMSS science achievement of eighth graders among...

Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is an international comparative study that has been implemented by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) since 1995. This proposed study is aimed to identify the correlations of science classroom teachings with eighth graders' science achieveme...

Purpose: Teacher’s behavioural intention in teaching science is one of the key determinants of students’ learning outcomes. Thus, it is crucial to study which affective domains are contributed to teacher’s behavioural intentions in teaching science. The present study aims to investigate the mediating effect of the dimensions of attitudes toward tea...

The teaching profession is a highly stressful occupation and susceptible to burnout due to high levels of workload compared to other contact occupations. In Malaysia, the majority of science teachers are experiencing physical and mental drain after long periods of teaching service and mundane routine year in and year out. Despite the general assump...

Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is an international comparative study that has been implemented by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) since 1995. This proposed study is aimed to identify the affective factors contributing to eighth graders' science achievement in TIMSS amo...

This paper reports on part of a bigger scale study related to STEM education at primary level. Several education officers have been interviewed to obtain information related to the implementation of STEM education in rural schools. The interview session involving education officers from different fields of job specification and experienced in teach...

Kajian ini bertujuan untuk menilai kebolehpercayaan Person dan kesesuaian item dalam Ujian Pencapaian Sains SSAT untuk pelajar tahun 5 (N=226) yang bersekolah di sekolah rendah luar bandar dengan menggunakan Model Pengukuran Rasch. Analisis data melibatkan dua peringkat iaitu tapisan kesesuaian item yang dijawab oleh Person yang tidak memenuhi krit...

Managing international programmes sustainably has been the concerns of most educational institutions. The responsibility is even greater if the programmes aim at enhancing innovative output supported by technology. This article reports on the authors’ experiences in managing four international programmes with development of framework of practice th...

Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is one of the projects of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), located at Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Hamburg, Germany. IEA is an independent cooperative of national educational research institutions and governmental research agencies dedi...

This study aims to establish the effectiveness of a Conceptual Approach in enhancing the learning of Conceptual Approach to cooperative learning among 27 4 th semester pre-service Biology teachers in science teacher education. Accordingly, the Conceptual Approach employed in this study entails the incorporation of its five essential elements, namel...

p>The research investigated the effect of socioeconomic status, gender, perceived parental influences, teacher affective support, classroom instruction and previous achievement on students’ attitude towards mathematics. The comparison of these effects was also done between urban and rural school students. This research employed a cross-sectional qu...

The research investigated the effect of socioeconomic status, gender, perceived parental influences, teacher affective support, classroom instruction and previous achievement on students' attitude towards mathematics. The comparison of these effects was also done between urban and rural school students. This research employed a cross-sectional quan...

The personnel involved in the implementation of STEM education at rural primary schools were interviewed. These include the head of Science and Mathematics Unit at the District Education Office, state science coach, excellent science teacher, long-service and experienced science teachers, School Improvement Specialist Coaches (SISC+) as well as UPS...

p>Stress is inevitable in the world of teaching and practicum training and therefore, student teachers naturally incur a certain level of stress due to the demands for them to use various knowledge and skills in real school and classroom environment. Hence, practicum stress needs to be addressed accordingly. The central focus of this study is using...

This research is aimed to validate an instrument, the Malaysian Relevance of Science Education (MROSE) to gauge Malaysian secondary students' interests, attitudes, values, and priorities in Science and Technology (S&T)-related issues. Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modeling approach was used to evaluate the validity and reliability of th...

A strong mathematics background is essential for job opportunities and advancement in a developing country like Malaysia. It gives students the confidence and ability to solve problems and become rational as well as critical in their thinking. However, Malaysian students’ mathematics achievement is relatively low as compared to other school subject...

Factors that might have contributed to students' mathematics performance in TIMSS are multi-faceted, recognizing that students' mathematics achievement is the result of a complex interplay of school-level, teacher-level, and student-level factors. In particular, teacher-level factors have shown significant contribution in predicting students' mathe...

This book is adapted and modified from a PhD thesis entitled: “Factors affecting students’ attitude towards mathematics in Sabah, Malaysia” of the first author. In this book, the relationships among perceived parental influences, teacher affective support, classroom instruction, gender, SES, students’ previous achievement and students’ attitude tow...

This research aimed to examine the reliability and validity of instruments used to determine self-efficacy beliefs, teaching motivation, attitudes towards teaching science and behavioural intention by using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM).

The ultimate aim of this research was to explore the contribution of teacher preparedness or readiness (in terms of their academic background, confidence in teaching science and career satisfaction) towards the achievement in science among Malaysian and Singaporean eighth-graders. The TIMSS 2011 international assessment of student achievement at th...

Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is the widely held notion that all life is related and has descended from a common ancestor. Darwin’s general theory presumes the development of life from non-life and stresses a purely naturalistic (undirected) “descent with modification”. That is, complex creatures evolve from more simplistic ancestors naturally over...

Practicum is a highly stressful situation whereby trainee teachers are subjected to a high-quality standard, deals with numerous students’ behaviour, adapt with the school climate and so forth. In this study, stress-coping factors comprising self-efficacy, subjective well-being and emotional intelligence experienced by 137 trainee teachers in the S...

Understanding teacher’s behavioural intention in teaching science becomes a foundation to improve teacher education programme. Prior to the evaluation of the interrelation between teacher self-efficacy beliefs, teaching motivation, attitudes towards teaching science, and behavioural intention in teaching science, this research examines the reliabil...

Kajian ini bertujuan untuk meninjau pengaruh konteks amali sains terhadap input amali sains dalam kalangan guru-guru sains di 69 sekolah menengah luar bandar di negeri Sabah. Seramai 357 guru-guru sains telah dipilih dengan kaedah pensampelan berstrata. Kajian ini adalah kajian kuantitatif bukan eksperimen yang menggunakan kaedah tinjauan untuk men...

Kajian ini bertujuan untuk meninjau pengaruh konteks amali sains terhadap input amali sains dalam kalangan guru-guru sains di 69 sekolah menengah luar bandar di negeri Sabah. Seramai 357 guru-guru sains telah dipilih dengan kaedah pensampelan berstrata. Kajian ini adalah kajian kuantitatif bukan eksperimen yang menggunakan kaedah tinjauan untuk men...

Abstrak: Kajian ini bertujuan untuk meninjau pengaruh input amali sains terhadap proses amali sains dalam kalangan guru-guru sains di 69 sekolah menengah luar bandar di negeri Sabah. Seramai 357 guru-guru sains telah dipilih dengan kaedah pensampelan berstrata. Kajian ini adalah kajian kuantitatif bukan eksperimen yang menggunakan kaedah tinjauan u...

Students' attitude towards mathematics is affected by factors such as parental influences, teacher affective support and classroom instruction. The purpose of this research was to examine the inter-relationships between these factors and effects on attitude towards mathematics using a partial least squares-structural equation modeling approach. A s...

The purpose of this study is to determine the mediating role of three subdimensions of self-efficacy (instructional strategies, classroom management and students’ involvement) on the relationship between resilience and trainee teachers’ perceived practicum stress. Hypothesized multivariate model was tested using partial least square-structural equa...

TIMSS routinely presents very powerful evidence showing that students with more positive motivation toward learning science have substantially higher achievement. The results from TIMSS 2011 are consistent with previous assessments. This study explored the predictive effects of motivation toward learning science on science achievement among Malaysi...

Studies have shown that resources are crucial for improving schooling, perhaps even more so in developing countries than in economically developed countries, where adequate school structures and material resources may be taken for granted. Recent research reviews suggest that computer use continues to grow in mathematics and science instruction, an...

In recent years, teacher quality has become the concern nationally and internationally as reflected in the initiatives to prepare quality teachers through the development of teacher education model or quality teacher standards at national and regional levels as documented in NCATE (2001, 2006), SEAMEO RECSAM (2014) and UPSI education research labor...