The Malaysian curriculum for physics aims to produce active learners who are good with physics concepts, practical skills and scientific attitudes. Practical skills are acquired through active involvement in investigative work in the laboratory. This paper discusses the development of a scoring rubric that can be used to assess students' physics practical skills through observation, where scores are assigned to students while they are carrying out practical work. The important physics practical skills are identified through literature review and criteria of scoring each skill are depicted. A total of twenty skills are outlined in the scoring rubric. These skills were subjected to review by a panel of expert teachers. Evidences for validity of test content were gathered. The instrument was tested on 153 Form 4 students and the data obtained was subjected to PLS-SEM analysis. Interpretation of results indicates satisfactory validity and reliability. Results on the scoring rubrics is found to have weak but significant correlation with a written practical test subjected to the same group of students.
Abstract-This article is based on the findings of a study that assessed the Key Performance Indicators Monitoring System (KPI-MS) of a university based on Technology Acceptance Model. The system was developed using PHP 5.2 as the scripting language and MySQL Community Server 5.0 as the databases management system. The assessment of the KPI-MS system was in terms of its perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use by the university users. The study was carried out using a survey questionnaire which was developed and modified from Davis's study on Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). This instrument was validated by three experts in the related field and the cronbach alpha value of reliability obtained was 0.955. A total of 78 participants from all the schools and centres in one of the public universities in northern Malaysia participated in the study. A descriptive analysis was carried out to obtain the mean scores of KPI-MS as rated by the users. The findings showed that the users rated KPI-MS as a very useful system in monitoring the KPI performance of their schools or centres. Besides, users also indicated that the KPI-MS is easy to use. In conclusion, KPI-MS system is accepted by the users in terms of perceived usefulness and perceive ease of use on the system. Index Terms-Key performance indicators, key performance indicator monitoring system, technology acceptance model, perceive usefulness, perceived ease of use
This article discusses the findings of a study that elucidated users' acceptance of two management systems for key performance indicators (KPIs) in terms of their usefulness and ease of use scores at a higher education institution in Malaysia. The two management systems were Key Performance Indicators Monitoring System (KPI-MS) and Excel Spreadsheet System (ESS). ESS is a system developed using Microsoft Excel and has been in used since the year 2008 in the institution to calculate KPIs marks. The ESS system, however, has several shortcomings, and the KPI-MS system was developed with the intention to replace ESS. KPI-MS is an online KPI performance monitoring system which allows users to access the system wherever and whenever they want using a web browser. In addition, KPI-MS is designed as an intelligent system that is able to process raw data automatically to produce results that can be easily visualized in a graphical manner. A survey questionnaire was used to collect data on the acceptance of both systems. A total of 78 participants who were involved in KPI data processing from all 42 schools and centres in the higher education institution in Malaysia participated in this study. The instrument of this study was adapted and modified from Davis' Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). This instrument was content-validated by three experts in the related field and the reliability index computed with Cronbach alpha was 0.955. A descriptive analysis was conducted to compare the mean scores of both KPI-MS and ESS rated by the users. The results showed that the users rated KPI-MS as a very useful system in monitoring KPI performance of their schools or centres compared to ESS. Also, users rated the KPI-MS to be significantly easier (p≤0.01) and more enjoyable to use. In conclusion, it is recommended that KPI-MS should replace the ESS system in managing KPIs data.
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