Week 7

In the last class , I discuss with Dr. Teoh about my conceptual framework and she give me tips on how to improve my conceptual framework. I hope I can finish my writing on literature review before next week.

After that we have to sit on exam. Dr. Teoh remind us to update our e-portfolio. Dr Teoh said use Ikhwaniy's blog as a reference to build good e-portfolio

Week 6

After doing my presentation, my research title have been proved by Dr. Teoh and Prof Parmjit. I have to find more pass research about this topic to start writing for chapter 1, 2 and 3.

At the end of the class Dr. Teoh ask us to study about certain topic because we have to sit for the exam next week. We need to be prepared as it carries a quite large percentage for total mark.

Research Proposal 3

Here is my research question before discuss with Dr. Teoh Prof Pramjit

1.       Research Questions

1.       What is the level of mathematical thinking attainment of teachers among Secondary School in Selangor?

2.       What is the level of mathematics teaching self-efficacy of teachers among Secondary School in Selangor?

3.      Is there a significant relationship between mathematical thinking dimension which is reasoning & proof, communication, connection and representation to self-efficacy among Secondary School Teachers in Selangor?

4.       Is there a significant relationship between mathematical thinking dimension which is reasoning & proof, communication, connection dan representation to outcome expectancy among Secondary School Teachers in Selangor?

5.       Is there a significant relationship between mathematical thinking attainments to mathematics teaching self-efficacy among Secondary School Teachers in Selangor?

 Here is my research question after discuss with Dr. Teoh and Prof Pramjit

1. What is the level of mathematical thinking attainment among Secondary School teacher's in Selangor ?

2. What is the level of Teaching Self Efficacy among Secondary School Mathematics Teachers

3. Is there a significant outcome in Mathematical Thinking attainment between PT3 teachers and SPM teachers in Selangor

4. Is there a significant outcome in Teaching Self Efficacy attainment between PT3 teachers and SPM teachers in Selangor

3. Is there a significant association between mathematical thinking attainment and Teaching Self Efficacy among Secondary School Teachers in Selangor

Research Proposal 2

All of the candidates must present a proposal to Dr. Teoh and here my slide show of my proposal. After discussing with Dr. Teoh, I have to change my research question and must add more literature review in my proposal to make sure we have 20 pages when submitting our proposal.

Week 5

In this class we have learn about validity and reliability.

Explanation about both validity and reliability has been made by Dr Teoh. From there, we can know the real meaning of validity that is as referringto the appropriateness, correctness, meaningfulness, and usefulness of the specific inferences researchers make based on the data they collect. There are three types of validity
i) Content-related evidence of validity
- the content and format of the instrument. How appropriate is the content? how comprehensive? Does it logically get at the intended variable? How adequately does the sample of items or questions represent the content to be assessed? Is the format appropriate? The content and format must be consistent with the definition of the variable and the sample of subjects to be measured.

ii) Criterion-related evidence of validity
- the relationship between scores obtained using the instrument and scores obtained using one or more other instruments or measures (often called a criterion). How strong is this relationship? How well do such scores estimate present or predict future performance of a certain type?

iii) Construct-related evidence of validity
- the nature of the psychological construct or characteristic being measured by the instrument. How well does a measure of the construct explain differences in the behavior of individuals or their performance on certain tasks? We provide further explanation of this rather complex concept later in the chapter.

Reliability refers to the consistency of the scores obtained—how consistent they are for each individual from one administration of an instrument to another and from one set of items to another.

Reference : 

Fraenkel, J.R. & Wallen, N.E. (2012) How to Design and Evaluate Research Education. New York: McGraw Hill Inc.

Week 4

In this session i have learn about various types of variable 

1. independent variable / predict -example motivation

2. dependent variable / outcome example – achievement

3. mediating variable / pengantaraan – relationship between motivation and achievement

As i mentioned before, my title for proposal will be :

 
The relationship between mathematical thinking attainment and self efficacy among teacher from secondary schools in Selangor. 

So independent variable will be mathematical thinking and dependent variable will be self efficacy. Then the mediating variable is the relationship between mathematical thinking and self efficacy.

I hope i call finalize my proposal and send it to Dr Teoh for review as soon as possible.

Week 3

In this class i learn about paraphrasing. Paraphrasing is basically use your own word to express the understanding about the idea from original text. Barry (2006) mentioned that paraphrasing is vital to avoid plagiarism.I embedded one video at the end of this post, that i find good for me to understand more how to do paraphrasing so that i can change words and sentence structure from the original text but keep the meaning.

Coversation with Dr Teoh in class :

En Haikal : what if i am wrong when trying to paraphrase and get the incorrect idea about what the writer said in the article 

Dr Teoh : Haikal, you must have a confidence and just write what you think about the original article

This this the exercise that we must do for the purpose to practice paraphrasing.

Reference :

Barry, E. S. (2006). Can Paraphrasing Practice Help Students Define Plagiarism? College Student Journal, 40, 377–384. Retrieved from http://www.projectinnovation.biz/csj.html