Faizah Majid

Universiti Teknologi Mara, Faculty of Education, Faculty Member

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I am a life long learner and I strive for meaningful learning journey during my exploration towards becoming better and better as an academic.
Address: Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia

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Thematic Video Stimulates Student Imagination for Poetry Writing Course

Isllac : journal of intensive studies on language, literature, art, and culture, Jun 28, 2024

Social Learning Environment and Pre-service Teachers’ Critical Thinking Development

International journal of academic research in progressive education and development, Oct 26, 2023

The pandemic has certainly pushed the world to become technologically savvy ahead of its time. Al... more The pandemic has certainly pushed the world to become technologically savvy ahead of its time. Alongside this, the teacher education world was not spared. Teacher trainers and preservice teachers alike were all forced to utilize technology in their teaching and learning process, in the effort to ensure that education goes on despite the pandemic. This has seen many teacher trainers designing teaching and learning digitally for the past two years. Although many teacher training institutions have gone back to the conventional mode after the pandemic, there is value in looking at how teacher education programmes can be delivered more efficiently in producing teachers with critical thinking skills. This raises the question of how teacher education programmes design a social learning environment that enhances pre-service teachers' critical thinking. The present study attempted to answer this by examining the social learning features that the selected pre-service teachers had been experiencing during their online learning and how the features had developed their critical thinking. A qualitative research design was employed in which series of interviews were conducted on a group of pre-service teachers who were finishing their teacher education programme in two public universities in Malaysia. The study identified that these features include lecturers' dynamics, lesson delivery and support available for students. Several implications of these social learning features were also discussed for teacher trainers to take into consideration when they design social learning environments that enhance pre-service teachers' critical thinking. These implications include the learning delivery and learning activities that affects students' decision-making abilities and students' learning performance. Recommendations were also made at the end of the paper for teacher trainers for future reference.

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Effectiveness of Construction Safety Hazards Identification in Virtual Reality Learning Environment

Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal, 2019

Enactment of Occupational Safety and Health Act (1994) and aggressive efforts have been taken to ... more Enactment of Occupational Safety and Health Act (1994) and aggressive efforts have been taken to ensure the safety of workers in the construction industry. This study employs an experimental study. Three hundred trainees divided into four groups, and data collections involve 2 phases which the first level require training for safety hazards identifications in traditional training classroom while another aspect of study include a virtual reality site visit. Results show that there is a significant difference in trainee's achievements for safety hazard identification assignments and examination between the training of hazard identification in a traditional construction site visit and mobile virtual reality construction site. Findings approve the hypothesis that learning is significantly higher at a virtual construction site rather than a construction site visit and traditional classroom. To conclude, a virtual reality learning environment offers other learning platforms for millen...

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Notice of Retraction Notice of Retraction Teaching conceptions and methodology: A study on selected Malaysian English teachers

IEEE Symposium on Humanities, Science and Engineering Research, Jun 1, 2012

The paper investigated the conceptions of English Language Teaching (ELT) among a selected group ... more The paper investigated the conceptions of English Language Teaching (ELT) among a selected group of Malaysian senior English teachers. Three categories of teaching conceptions namely; (1) imparting information-transmitting structured knowledge, (2) facilitating understanding-conceptual change/intellectual development and (3) student-teacher interaction were referred. The categories were identified through the respondents' views on ELT which are tapped from an open ended survey form. The respondents' preferred methodology on the other hand was examined through series of focus group interview. The respondents' responses in terms of their ELT conceptions and methodology were later matched for convergence and divergence between their teaching conceptions and preferred methodology. It was discovered that there exist contradictions between their teaching conceptions and preferred teaching methodology. Although some respondents claimed to have a student-focus orientation in their teaching conception, a majority of them preferred teaching methodology which is teacher-centred. The exam-orientedness in the Malaysian education system could be a possible cause as the respondents admitted having to prepare their students to pass. Further research need to be carried out to confirm this mismatch and seek its possible causes.

A Case Study of a Malaysian Teacher Training Institution’s Reflective Practice

Springer texts in education, 2024

Exploring the Mediating Role of Students’ Satisfaction towards Personal Record Building in the Influence of Self-regulated Learning Strategies on Employability Skills

Asian journal of university education, Oct 30, 2023

The issue of employability skills has always been the agenda of stakeholders like the government,... more The issue of employability skills has always been the agenda of stakeholders like the government, universities, and employers in the industry. Dynamic changes to the employability skills needed at workplace require stakeholders to find ways to stay relevant. As an approach to develop desired employability skills, the Personal Record Building (PRB) system was introduced by a technical university. Like ePortfolio, the PRB system mainly relies on students' ability to self-regulate and record their participation and accomplishment in students' activities through a merit system. Therefore, it is crucial to explore the relationship between students' satisfaction towards the PRB, self-regulated learning strategies and employability skills. The objectives of this study are to investigate the influence of self-regulated learning strategies like goal setting, help-seeking and selfmonitoring on employability skills and to examine the role of students' satisfaction towards PRB as a mediator in the relationship between self-regulated learning strategies and employability skills. This study collected data from 159 final year students at a selected technical university through a quantitative method. The data was analysed using SmartPLS structural model assessment. It was discovered that goal setting, self-monitoring and help-seeking strategies significantly influence employability skills. However, students' satisfaction towards PRB system only mediates the relationship between help-seeking strategies and employability skill. The findings could help universities to assess and improve their services and the PRB system, which would benefit students in developing their self-regulated learning strategies and consequently, their employability skills.

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A framework of Virtual Reality learning system for teacher’s trainee programme at Malaysian higher education / Nurshamshida Md Shamsudin and Faizah Abdul Majid

Mobile Virtual reality (VR) learning based has contributed effectively to various disciplines sin... more Mobile Virtual reality (VR) learning based has contributed effectively to various disciplines since its implementation in education. However, current pedagogical methods and tools at the tertiary level are unable to provide students with realistic and practical usage of virtual reality due to incompetency and lack of IT skills among educators. The current problem with mobile learning is the visualization and content presented in the application, where it may not be appealing for the student to use because it is mostly text-based. The next issue regarding learning is the user interface where it may not be usable to a non-experience user, and most important is the framework available for the mobile-Virtual Reality Learning System is still limited. This study proposes a framework for using Virtual Reality (VR) system for experiential learning. The framework consists of the following three modules: VR Teacher's Module Knowledge Dissemination, VR Teacher's Learning Preparation Module and VR Teacher's Module Knowledge Assessment. The system prototype will be developed and evaluated with case studies to identify the system's benefits and limitations.

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Looking in From Within: Student Diaries as a Bridge to Understanding the Reading Minds

This paper examines the mental processes of the highly proficient and less proficient tertiary st... more This paper examines the mental processes of the highly proficient and less proficient tertiary students in a Malaysian tertiary institution while reading academic texts through the use of student diaries. Being process oriented, the study conducted was treated as a case study which lasted in 14 weeks time. Four research participants with twelve journal entries each were involved during the data collection. The analysis of the data from the student diaries was conducted using the Constant Comparative Method (Wellington, 2000, p. 137). For triangulation purposes, the reading texts read by the participants were also collected for document analysis. The study has yielded interesting findings on how the different academic reading proficiency of the selected tertiary students was reflected by the difference in quality in their use of the identified academic reading strategies. These findings have direct implications on the teaching and learning of the English language for the tertiary students. Besides enlightening the trainers, curriculum designer and policy makers, the findings have also provided means and ways on how the tertiary students could be more reflective of their academic reading strategies and be able to regulate their academic reading strategies more effectively through the use of student diaries.

Academics' Diversification Enhancing Graduate Employability through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Asian journal of university education, Dec 1, 2016

Current debates on higher education graduates seem to address graduates' quality and their employ... more Current debates on higher education graduates seem to address graduates' quality and their employability. Since industries' role as future employers become central in the preparation of graduates, issues on graduate employability (GE) have become one of the heated discussion topics with the inclusion of smart partnerships and collaborations between higher education institutes and industries. As students generally spend between three and five years in higher education institutes prior to graduating, students' graduate employability relies quite heavily on the preparation for the world of work during their time in the institutions. The Ministry of Higher Education has called for academics to collaborate with the industries as a measure to enhance GE. Needless to say, academics' diversification has always directed them to be multi-taskers. Four main professional tracks inevitable amongst the academics namely; teaching, research (and publication), community service and academic leadership have made the academic profession a diversed one. While this is easy to comprehend, the task to establish and maintain linkages with industries in enhancing GE remains an issue yet to be championed by the academics who are already swamped by various academic tasks, let alone collaborating with the industries to specifically promote graduate employability. This paper examines the issues of graduate employability alongside the diversed tasks of the academics. Based on Boyer's scholarship of teaching and learning

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Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) in Teaching 21st Century Skills in the 21st Century Classroom

Asian journal of university education, Dec 31, 2019

This conceptual paper explores the concept of technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK)... more This conceptual paper explores the concept of technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) in relation to the teaching of 21st century skills with a purpose of establishing a relationship between them. Due to the advancement and development of industrial revolution and technology, the education scenario also changes towards 21st century education, whereby more focus is given on the use of technology and 21st century skills. The teachers' roles change, and they are required to not only teach the core subject matters, but they also have to teach and train the students with the 21st century skills. However, not all teachers are well-trained on how to teach those skills to the students, especially when they also have to integrate technology in their teaching as well. Therefore, it is crucial to investigate whether the teachers understand and know how to teach the 21st century skills while integrating technology at the same time. Based on this needs, this paper will discuss the teachers' knowledge, understanding and application of the TPACK framework by Koehler et al. (2006) and how will this framework affect their teaching of 21st century skills in the classroom. The 21st century skills framework suggested by the Malaysian Ministry of Education called the 4C1V (communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creative thinking and values and ethics) which is based on the P21 framework is included in the conceptual framework of this study, along with the TPACK framework. This study will attempt to establish a relationship between these two frameworks through a quantitative study, and the findings from this study would contribute to the knowledge on what aspects or skills that teachers will need to improve in order to teach the 21st century skills to the students.

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The Relationship Amongst Learners Perceptions of Video-taped Teaching Materials, Preferred Learning Styles and Performance

Technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) in teaching 21st century skills in the 21st century classroom / Hidayu Shafie, Faizah Abd Majid and Izaham Shah Ismail

Identifying English Language Pragmatic Deficits among Children with Autism: Lessons from Fatima’s Home

This article addresses a unique language-learning journey of a special child, ‘Fatima’ who is dia... more This article addresses a unique language-learning journey of a special child, ‘Fatima’ who is diagnosed with mild autism or Level One Autism Spectrum Disorder. Taking a qualitative perspective, research based on a series of observations and interviews was conducted on Fatima and her caregivers, namely her mother and her two elder siblings. Fatima was primarily diagnosed as having a learning delay, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and hyperactivity but not speech development. This study aims to look at the English language learning difficulties of a child with mild autism who has been diagnosed with no speech development issues. Findings revealed that communicative pragmatic deficits are an obvious limitation displayed by Fatima as she develops in age. Though Fatima exhibits quite proficient use of the English language, she shoulders pragmatic challenges in communication and still has a long way to be communicatively competent as other teenagers her age. In addition, t...

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Exploring Home-Based Learning by Using Mobile for Children with Autism During Covid-19 Pandemic

Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal

Educating children with autism is a big responsibility for special education teachers and parents... more Educating children with autism is a big responsibility for special education teachers and parents. Since the Covid-19 pandemic hit Malaysia, the learning approach has been shifted to virtual learning. The use of education technology has gained state-of-the-art research interest in children with autism, especially in the context of mobile learning. This study will examine how mobile learning could assist children with autism in coping with their daily routine study during the pandemic era. Instructors, teachers, and parents of children with autism may find the findings useful as one of their references in determining their teaching aids and strategies. Keywords: Education Technology, Children with Autism, Pandemic Covid-19, PdPR. eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2022. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibili...

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The 4th Industrial Revolution: Contemplations on Curriculum Review and Its Implementation in the Malaysian Higher Education Institutes

Global Journal Al-Thaqafah

The higher education landscape is once again undergoing massive transformation. Not more than two... more The higher education landscape is once again undergoing massive transformation. Not more than two decades ago, it was the advancement of digital technology and globalization that drove the need for transformation in higher education. At present, the transformation is driven by the need to face the challenges of the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR). Much discourse has been centered on debating the roles of higher education in meeting the demands of 4IR. This paper aims to address similar issue by discussing the curriculum reviews done by higher education institutes in embracing 4IR. As curriculum is central to any academic programs, it is vital that the curriculum review done by the higher education institutes in catering to the growing needs of 4IR be examined. The close look at the curriculum review initiatives will focus on the changes done in terms of subject contents, methods of delivery and methods of assessment. Further, the academics’ perceptions of the curriculum review and h...

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The Relationships Between Achievement Goal, Teacher Instructional Practices and Students’ Academic Achievement

International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 2019

Among the many factors contributing to the students' competency in learning are students' motivat... more Among the many factors contributing to the students' competency in learning are students' motivation and teacher instructional practices. Motivation is the internal state of an individual that arouses, directs and sustains behaviour. Achievement goal theory has been one of the most prominent theories of motivation in educational research for more than 25 years (Senko, Hulleman, & Harackiewicz, 2011). It has been used in order to identify students' motivation and achievement-related behaviours. On the other hand, teacher instructional practices are one of the factors that could influence students' learning (Maulana, Opdenakker & Bosker, 2016). Many studies have described that teaching practices are related to effective classroom learning and students' outcome (Mercer & DeRosier, 2010). Different experts emphasised that different practices in teaching could efficiently move students forward in their learning. Therefore, this paper explores the relationships between students' achievement goals and academic achievement and also the possible moderation by teacher instructional practices. As this paper is driven by a concept paper approach, discussions on the findings are based on relevant literature review, which includes discussions on the theories and past research findings. A framework that signifies the possible relationship among the variables is provided.

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Workplace communication for graduating students: a quickguide

The learning strategies of successful research graduates : A case study on the Phd holders / Dr. Faizah Abdul Majid, Nor Hashima Mohd Sukor, and Fatin Aliana Mohd Radzi

The idea to the research came from the university's concern over the increasing attrition rat... more The idea to the research came from the university's concern over the increasing attrition rate of research candidates. Each year, the statistic of research candidates who either opted out or were dismissed due to poor performance shows a rise in percentage (IGS, UiTM, 2006). Additionally, relevant literature review seems to support the possibility of discontinuation of programme among the research candidates (Faizah, 2005; Habibah, 2002; Sayed et al, 1998). Several factors have been identified to contribute to the lost of research candidates from the research programme they enrolled in. According to Brown and Atkins (1990), the factors include difficulties with methodological skills, problems of isolation and more serious commitment given outside research among the part-time students. Sayed et al (1998) who-conducted a longitudinal study on the difficulties faced by ten research students provided relevant input for best practices in research supervision. According to them, the c...

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The learning strategies of successful research graduates: A survey on the Malaysian PhD holders

Each year the number of research candidates who either opt out or are dismissed due to poor perfo... more Each year the number of research candidates who either opt out or are dismissed due to poor performance is increasing (IGS, UiTM, 2006). Several factors are identified in the literature as contributing to the loss of research candidates from the research programme they enrol in. According to Brown and Atkins (1990, as cited in Faizah 2006), the factors include difficulties with methodological skills, problems of isolation and more serious commitment given to life outside their research among the part-time students. Sayed et al (1998) who conducted a longitudinal study on the difficulties faced by ten research students provided relevant input for best practices in research supervision. This paper reports on a study conducted in Malaysia with the aim to investigate the demographic profiles and the strategies employed by 76 successful PhD graduates (53% female, 47% male) who completed their studies either abroad or locally. A questionnaire which comprise two parts (Part A: Learning Cha...

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