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