Learning accounting can be very challenging for most students. Students are not only expected to demonstrate a proficiency in accounting process, they must also demonstrate a depth of knowledge and understanding of accounting concepts and fundamentals. In most accounting courses, educators depend on the textbook or power point slides to give lectures and illustrate all the workings on the black/whiteboard while students are listening passively or busy taking notes. Lack of attraction and engagement in the conventional way of accounting teaching and learning may lead to difficulty in understanding basic accounting concepts and overall accounting process, thereby demotivating students to learn accounting. Alternatively, gamification of teaching and learning may provide a useful technique to enhance students’ engagement and motivation. For this reason, the authors have proposed a gamification technique, known as “Accounting on the Block” (AOTB), which is an accounting board game to teach Published Financial Statements for accounting students at diploma level. While numerous studies have been conducted to evaluate students’ motivation level in digital game-based learning, there are relatively few studies that address students’ motivation level when using physical games, such as board games. To shed light in this area, a case study was conducted on 50 accounting students who were experimented with the AOTB board game. The Instructional Materials Motivation Survey (IMMS) instrument was applied to measure students’ motivation level. The results revealed that most students’ motivation levels were positive and they were satisfied with the use of AOTB board game in their learning. However, students also expected improvements in some aspects of the game.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an abrupt change in the way higher education institutions (HEIs) deliver their courses. Due to crisis circumstances, HEIs have been required to adopt emergency remote teaching (ERT) as the substitution for traditional face-to-face (F2F) classes. This study aims to investigate the impact of different instruction modes applied in teaching an accounting course as a result of transition of COVID-19 phases on students' performance. The performance of four cohorts of students (N = 549) who enrolled in the Financial Accounting 4 (FAR270) course at Universiti Teknologi MARA, Pahang Branch, Malaysia, during the four semesters, including traditional F2F semester, two consecutive online semesters and blended learning semester. The results of this study reveal significant differences between students' performance when all four cohorts of students are compared. The students who were first exposed to the ERT at the beginning of pandemic phase (second cohort) performed better in the asynchronous online instruction mode compared to other instruction modes applied during other phases of pandemic. Besides, the study reveals significant differences in students' performance across different instruction modes for each group of students divided by the their prior CGPA and gender. In all CGPA and gender subgroups, students achieved better performance in asynchronous online mode compared to other instruction modes. The study also provides possible explanation for the results of the analysis.
This paper discusses the experiment of measuring antenna radiation patterns using hardware and software that has been made previously. The antenna measured is the Half Wave Open Dipole antenna that works at VHF frequencies as Antenna Under Testing (AUT). The hardware used is Module-1 and Module-2 which have previously been tested for functionality, and the software is the Antenna Radiation Pattern application that is created using the Visual Basic programming language in the Microsoft Visual Studio package. Radiation pattern measurement experiments were carried out under various conditions, namely (1) without RF signals; (2) with RF signal and the position of the transmitting antenna is 0o with AUT; (3) with the RF signal and the position of the transmitting antenna at an angle of 90o to AUT; and (4) simulation of electromagnetic wave interference when making measurements. Based on the results of experiments conducted, it can be concluded that the Antenna Radiation Pattern application has functioned well and can describe the AUT radiation pattern. Future work of this research is the measurement of radiation patterns for other types of antennas and refinement of applications for the measurement of various antenna parameters.
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