This study aims to develop a Secondary High School Thinking Skills Assessment Instrument (SMHOTSA) for Form 1 students and to test the validity and reliability of SMHOTSA instruments developed. This research is a developmental research. The product of this research is to develop SMHOTSA instruments in multiple choice questions and essay test items. In getting a prototype development, this research will be done on the adaptation of the Borg and Gall's model development. The 10 steps Borg and Gall's (1983) model development were adapted into seven developmental steps; (1) research and collecting information, (2) planning, (3) the initial product development, (4) limited testing, (5) the revision of initial product, (6) field testing, and (7) the revision of final product. A total of 100 Form One students from two secondary schools in the District of Kinta, Perak were involved in this study. The validation of assessment instrument is carried out to evaluate the validity of the assessment instrument in the HOTS Form One secondary mathematics test items. The validation is performed in the early stages of product development by three experts on Mathematics Education. The findings show that all experts agree that the content and quality of the item are in line with the content standards, features of HOTS and language-based items and, are suitable for the use in this study. The findings also showed that the value of V for the calculation of the validity coefficient of SMHOTSA instruments using the formula V Aiken approaching the value 1. This finding indicates that the SMHOTSA instrument has a high validity. From the two-part analysis conducted on the results of the respondents who answered SMHOTSA's final instrument, it was found that the Spearmen-Brown coefficient of the same length was 0.702. This finding shows that SMHOTSA instruments also have high reliability coefficients. The implication of this study shows that the High School Level Thinking Skills Assessment (SMHOTSA) instrument for Form 1 students is valid and has high reliability.
The study seeks to investigate the effect of outdoor education camp toward group cohesion among second year undergraduate teacher trainees from selected Teacher Education Institutes of Malaysia. A pre-test and post-test approach with non-equivalent control group was utilised among 350 second year undergraduate teacher trainees from four selected campuses. A modified version of Group Environment Questionnaire (GEQ) was used to gather data from pre-test and post-test. Results from MANCOVA procedures suggested that the camp had positively improved the group cohesion aspects of the experimental group with significant gain in ATG-T, ATG-S, GI-T and GI-S. Furthermore, results also highlight the improvement of group outcome aspects (GI-T and GI-S) which surpassed individual aspects (ATG-T and ATG-S). Overall, the results of this study showed that outdoor education improves teacher trainees' group cohesion.
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