ASSIGNMENT 3 (30 marks) (Individual) Assignment Deadline: 1 MAY 2012 (SUNDAY)

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Specifications: 1. Select TWO articles written in English language, on any topic/issue of your choice. The articles must share the same topic/issue addressed and should be about 2-3 pages in length. As an example, if you have decided to work on Schools as coping organizations you need to look for two articles addressing the same issue selected. Articles for topics on Stress and Healthy lifestyle is NOT ALLOWED. Based on the articles selected, write an academic paper of about 1500 words using the following format: Introduction Introduce the title of your articles and the writers. Also include where you obtained the articles (websites, journal title, books, magazines, etc.). Article 1 Title: Writer(s): Source: Title: Writer(s): Source:

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Write the gist or main points of each article in about 250 words. Gist Article 1 (about 250 words) Gist Article 2 (about 250 words)

[6 marks each x 2 =12 marks] Reflection/Discussion Write a reflection/discussion of the articles selected. Provide your views on the topic/issue addressed and relate it to your own knowledge and experiences. Your reflection should be supported with other additional readings/sources of information. Include your additional readings in the list of references. Your reflection/discussion should be written in about 1000 words. [12 marks] References List the articles, websites/books/journals (APA format) Appendices Attach the two articles selected. [2 marks] Your assignment should be typed using Times New Roman point 12 with 1.5 line spacing. Your assignment should be prepared individually. As you would advise your students in school.Do not copy your friends work. Do not PLAGIARISE your work. PLAGIARISM IS A CRIME. Please cite your sources.

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1. A maximum of 5 marks will be deducted for language errors. 2. Warning: The submitted assignment will go through a similarity check. If plagiarism is
detected, marks will be deducted as follows: Assignments with 10 30% similar/overlap with others or taken from other sources and not cited: 20% of the total marks scored will be deducted. Assignments with more than 30% overlap with others or taken from other sources of information and not cited: Zero mark would be given.

3. Kindly submit your assignment as follows: Soft copy: MyGuru Hard copy: Courier to your respective online tutors. Address: (Name of your online Tutors eg. Dr. Ainon Omar) Fakulti Bahasa dan Komunikasi Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris 35900 Tanjong Malim Perak Darul Ridzuan 4. Please make sure that you submit your assignment before or on the deadline given. Assignments (both soft and hard copies) submitted AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. 4. Please consult your tutors for further clarification or any queries.

Other suggested topics/issues Plagiarism Academic Dishonesty I Malaysia Book Vouchers Obesity Facebook Sex Education in Schools Truancy Gangsterism in Schools Teenage Crime Teenage Pregnancy PLKN Reality TV Shows Freedom of Speech

Introduction Introduce the title of your articles and the writers. Also include where you obtained the articles (websites, journal title, books, magazines, etc.).

Those are information and the introductions of the journal that I had choosed. I would like to choose those journals because as a teacher, I can see that Teachers plays with the motivational factors. Especially with their students in a learning process. Our students learned in a different intelligents. So we as a teacher should understand them and seek what are the factors in a learning session that can motivate them to like the subjects. We have to use a motivational factors towards the subjects and we have to gain their interest and encourage them to like the learning process in our class. So, I would really like to choose those journal as my coursework findings because I can see that motivation are really important in a learning process. The first Journal are about Motivating Factors that Influence Class F Contractors to Become Entrepreneurs. This journal is a findings from Nor Aishah Buang and Yufiza Mohd Yusof. The seconds journals are about Motivation and Task Difficulty : A SOLO Experience with Adult Learners. This seconds journals is a findings from Tan Hui Leng. Journal 1 : Journal 1 Title : Motivating Factors that Influence Class F Contractors to Become Entrepreneurs Writer(s) : Nor Aishah Buang and Yufiza Mohd Yusof Source : Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia onlines library

Journal 2 : Journal 2 Title : Motivation and Task Difficulty : A SOLO Experience with Adult Learners

Writer(s) : Tan Hui Leng Source: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia onlines library Write the gist or main points of each article in about 250 words. Gist jornal 1 (about 250 words)

Journal 1 : Journal 1 Title : Motivating Factors that Influence Class F Contractors to Become Entrepreneurs Writer(s) : Nor Aishah Buang and Yufiza Mohd Yusof Source : Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia onlines library

This is my first choices of a journal and it is all about motivational factors. This journal are about what are the motivating factors that influence class F contractors to become entrepreneurs. Those motivating factors include family background, education background, and psychological factors such as sense of freedom, satisfaction, innovation, success, recognition and important roles. The conceptual framework for this study was adapted from the Entrepreneurship Education and Development Process Model. Nor Aishah Buang and Yufiza Mohd Yusof used an Interviews and questionnaires to collect the datas needed. Statistical analysis such as frequency, percentage, ttest, Pearson correlation, and one-way ANOVA were also used in this findings. According to Nor Aishah Buang and Yufiza Mohd Yusof research from Reitan (1997), there are several motivating factors that encourage people to become entrepreneurs. Those factors are cultural values, family encouragement, education in schools and peers advice. This study and research is to explore the motivating factors that help to develop entrepreneurship qualities among class F Bumiputra contractors. This research are from The contractors from several districts of Perak. All the types of motivational factors that being studied are family background, educational background, government encouragements, and psychological factors such as freedom, satisfaction, innovation, success, recognition and roles. As a conclusion, Nor Aishah Buang and Yufiza Mohd Yusof seek

that there are a lot of motivational factors that contributes and influence class F Bumiputra contractors from several districts of Perak to become an entrepreneurs.

Gist Jounal 2 (about 250 words)

Journal 2 : Journal 2 Title : Motivation and Task Difficulty : A SOLO Experience with Adult Learners Writer(s) : Tan Hui Leng Source: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia onlines library

In my second choices of a journal, I would also like to focus on motivational factors. I am focusing on a research of Motivation and Task Difficulty: A SOLO Experience with Adult Learners. This research had been made by Tan Hui Leng from University Kebangsaan Malaysia in 2006. So, in both journal I would like to focus on a motivation. This study was conducted with a group of 26 PKPG teachers. A series of graded tasks for EDU 480 was set for these teachers, where task difficulty was controlled using the SOLO Taxonomy. According to my research, I can make a conclusion that The Structure of Observed Learning Outcome (SOLO) taxonomy is a model that describes levels of increasing complexity in student's understanding of subjects. It was proposed by John B. Biggs and K. Collin and has since gained popularity. So, These teachers were guided through the tasks. After six weeks on-task, a comparison of pre-task (Test 1) and post-task (Test 2) scores was done descriptively. The findings of Tan Hui Lengs shows that there was a marked improvement in test scores. Feedback from these teachers and their instructor seems to indicate that this improvement may be related to their increased interest in the subject. They report that these adult learners are more motivated to study a subject where the learning process has enabled them to enjoy success in completing tasks especially tasks which were previously deemed difficult. Motivation can be defined as Internal and external factors that stimulate desire and energy in people to be continually interested in and committed to a job, role, or subject, and to exert persistent effort in attaining a goal. When these teachers enjoy with the subject, subsequently they

can answers all the question in the pre-task (Test 1) and post-task (Test 2) systematically because their motivation and interest had been increased in the focusing subject. The purpose of this study was to examine what elements were required to motivate learning among adult learners. Based on current literature on adult motivation, the idea of inducing success through hands-on tasks stands out significantly and thus became the focus of this study. The efficacy of these tasks in motivating and promoting learning among adults was analysed. In this respect, task difficulty was carefully controlled and its learning outcomes were examined. Two other sources of motivation, namely, group work and the role of the instructor in providing feedback and support in performing the tasks were.raised by learners in this study and were subsequently studied as well. The purpose of this study was to examine what elements were required to motivate learning among adult learners. Based on current literature on adult motivation, the idea of inducing success through hands-on tasks stands out significantly and thus became the focus of this study. The efficacy of these tasks in motivating and promoting learning among adults was analysed. In this respect, task difficulty was carefully controlled and its learning outcomes were examined. Two other sources of motivation, namely, group work and the role of the instructor in providing feedback and support in performing the tasks were raised by learners in this study and were subsequently studied as well.

Reflection/Discussion Write a reflection/discussion of the articles selected. Provide your views on the topic/issue addressed and relate it to your own knowledge and experiences. Your reflection should be supported with other additional readings/sources of information. Include your additional readings in the list of references. Your reflection/discussion should be written in about 1000 words. In this coursework, I would like to choose two journals about motivation. The first journal are all about Motivating Factors that Influence Class F Contractors to Become Entrepreneurs by Nor Aishah Buang and Yufiza Mohd Yusof. The second journal are a research about Motivation and Task Difficulty: A SOLO Experience with Adult Learners which is a research of Tan Hui Leng in 2003. Both of the journals are from the onlines library of University Kebangsaan Malaysia. Both of the journals are about a motivation. I would like to focus on motivation because we as a teacher really needs to finds a motivation to encourage our students towards our subjects in a learning process. We as a teacher should be able to find and seek for a motivation factors to increase our students interest in our subject in class. From the Wikepedia, I can defined that Motivation is a term that refers to a process that elicits, controls, and sustains certain behaviors. Motivation is a group of phenomena which affect the nature of an individual's behavior, the strength of the behavior, and the persistence of the behavior. For instance: An individual has not eaten, he or she feels hungry, as a response he or she eats and diminishes feelings of hunger. There are many approaches to motivation: physiological, behavioural, cognitive, and social. It's the crucial element in setting and attaining goals and research shows you can influence your own levels of motivation and self-control. According to various theories, motivation may be rooted in a basic need to minimize physical pain and maximize pleasure, or it may include specific needs such as eating and resting, or a desired object, goal, state of being, ideal, or it may be attributed to less-apparent reasons such as altruism, selfishness, morality, or avoiding mortality. Conceptually, motivation should not be confused with either volition or optimism. Motivation is related to, but distinct from, emotion. So, in both of the journals shows that three of them are focusing on a motivation. From the findings, I can conclude that a motivation is important to encourage the interest into somethings such as interest of a students towards a subjects that they dislikes such as Science and Mathematics. Students learn in a different intelligents. We as a teacher should seek for the

intelligence in our students. Nowadays, as a Mathematis teacher I am facing a students that hates Mathematics a lot. So, I have to seek for a motivation factors to encourage them towards the subjects. If their interest incresed, their performance in this subject should also increased. In a first journal by Nor Aishah Buang and Yufiza Mohd Yusof , The purpose of the study is to find out what are the motivating factors that influence class F Bumiputra contractors from several districts of Perak to become entrepreneurs. Those motivating factors include family background, education background, and psychological factors such as sense of freedom, satisfaction, innovation, success, recognition and important roles. In the second journals, Tan Hui Leng was conducted with a group of 26 PKPG teachers. A series of graded tasks for EDU 480 was set for these teachers, where task difficulty was controlled using the SOLO Taxonomy. These teachers were guided through the tasks. After six weeks on-task, a comparison of pre-task (Test 1) and post-task (Test 2) scores was done descriptively. There was a marked improvement in test scores. Feedback from these teachers and their instructor seems to indicate that this improvement may be related to their increased interest in the subject. They report that these adult learners are more motivated to study a subject where the learning process has enabled them to enjoy success in completing tasks especially tasks which were previously deemed difficult. Tan Hui Leng are using the SOLO Taxonomy. As learning progresses it becomes more complex. SOLO, which stands for the Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome, is a means of classifying learning outcomes in terms of their complexity, enabling us to assess students work in terms of its quality not of how many bits of this and of that they got right. At first we pick up only one or few aspects of the task (unistructural), then several aspects but they are unrelated (multistructural), then we learn how to integrate them into a whole (relational), and finally, we are able to generalised that whole to as yet untaught applications (extended abstract). Nor Aishah Buang and Yufiza Mohd Yusof Interviews and questionnaires were used to collect the data. Statistical analysis such as frequency, percentage, t-test, Pearson correlation, and one-way ANOVA. So, I can conclude that both of the journals are focusing on a research of motivation and how to increased the numbers of their finding objectives using a motivation factors. Three of them are focusing on a motivation and how to encourage an interest into something using the motivation.

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