A review of relationships between item sequence and performance on multiple-choice exams.

This paper introduces the hybrid UTAUT model to explore pre-school children’s actual interaction experience with video puzzle using tablets. For the past 10 years, there is much debate on the factors affecting children’s actual interaction experience with interactive edutainment using tablet and there is a general agreement that children need access to tablet for learning activities and cognitive development. However, little research was carried out to evaluate the actual interaction motivation that determines the learning experience of pre-school children in their interaction with video puzzle using tablet. In Malaysia, the use of tablet in pre-school has been increasing rapidly, therefore, research to understand actual children video puzzle interaction using tablet to meaningfully support children’s learning activities is much demanded. The main constructs of UTAUT had been maintained by integrating two new constructs, namely, Playability and Self-Efficacy into a hybrid model. The moderating variables in UTAUT model were removed as the respondents are homogeneous in their demography characteristics. The findings indicated that Social Influence have a negative relationship on actual interaction experience with video puzzle using tablet among pre-school children in Malaysia. This can be attributed to pre-school children having a smaller and limited social cycle and the facts that pre-school children will mainly refer to their parents and teachers for advices on the adoption of new innovation.

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

An Evaluation of Children Video Puzzle Interaction using Tablet: An Actual Usage Experience from Malaysia

Liew¹,

Lau²,

Ismail³

2020

“…Just as in the first finding, the effect of test anxiety when students face DE and R arranged items may be the reason for the differences in the performance of students in Mathematics. This finding corroborates the result of previous studies such as Soureshjani (2011);Çokluk et al (2016); Hauck et al (2017); Owan et al (2020b), which document that test items arranged in different order affects the performance of students.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

Effect of Bibliotherapy on Truant Behaviour of Schooling Adolescents in North West Nigeria

Bashir¹,

Ngozi²,

Chimezie³

et al. 2020

The study investigated the effect of bibliotherapy on the truant behaviour of schooling adolescents in North West Nigeria. Two research questions were posed to guide the study. The study adopted a Quasi-experimental design. The population for the study comprised of 824 identified SSII schooling adolescents with truancy behavioural problems drawn from the four selected schools in the North West Nigeria. The sample size used for the study was 296 SS II schooling adolescents with truant behaviour. The study adopted a structured questionnaire which was developed by the researchers for data collection. The instrument was validated by three experts drawn from Department of Educational Foundations (Special Education Unit), University of Nigeria, Nsukka; Department of Educational Psychology and Counselling, Aminu Kano College of Islamic and Legal Studies, Kano State and Department of Psychology, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria. The reliability of the instruments was subjected to Cronbach Alpha Statistics and reliability coefficient of 0.91 was obtained. Mean score and standard deviation were used to analyze the data. The findings of the study revealed that school location is not a significant factor in the mean truancy behaviour of schooling adolescents; though urban schooling adolescents had a reduced mean truancy behaviour compared to their rural counterpart. The findings of the study with respect to the interaction effect of treatments and gender on schooling adolescents’ truancy behaviours revealed no significant interaction effect of treatments and gender. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended among others that special educators, guidance counsellors, educational psychologists, and curriculum planners should plan a programme of intervention based on the bibliotherapy techniques for schooling adolescents.

“…A study documents that an easy-to-difficult (ED) test leads to lower anxiety levels than a difficult-to-easy (DE) test (Çokluk et al, 2016). The argument here is that some studies have documented that test items arranged in different orders affect the performance of students, completion time and items parameters (Balch, 1989;Carlson and Ostrosky, 1992;Çokluk et al, 2016;Hauck et al, 2017;Jessel and Sullin, 1975;Owan et al, 2020a;Picou and Milhomme, 1997;Soureshjani, 2011;Towle and Merrill, 1975). Jessel and Sullin (1975), also found that there is a significant difference in the performance and reliability of tests based on test items arrangement.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 89%

Evolving a Combative Framework and Strategy for Effective Maritime Counter Piracy Measures in Nigeria

Inyang¹,

Agi²

2020

Maritime piracy is a global problem affecting the entire world, particularly, world maritime, which contributes a huge percentage of the logistics in world economy. Being a worldwide problem, it is necessary to develop a counter piracy law for Nigeria, gearing towards both domestic and regional jurisdictions for effective application and enforcement. Sea navigation through ships is the major means of movement of finished goods and raw materials globally. The sea being the heritage of mankind, any activity that negatively affects sea transportation affects the world economy, nay, Nigerian economy. Maritime pirates over the ages have been considered as enemies of humanity. Piracy has been a major problem in all major sea routes worldwide, including the gulf of Guinea. Notwithstanding all the criminal activities of maritime pirates in and around the gulf of Guinea including Nigerian coastal waters, there is no legal framework formulated to accost and punish pirates to curtail their activities. It is quite unfortunate that the international Convention developed by the UNCLOS, 1982, to fight piracy and armed robbery at sea is yet to be domesticated as part of Nigerian municipal law. The various agreements and guidelines churned out by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), on this subject are yet to become part of Nigerian policy as recommended to member states of IMO. This article recommends that Section 12 of the Nigerian 1999 Constitution should domesticate these conventions and guidelines as counter piracy law for the country to make the fight against maritime piracy and armed robbery successful.