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Shaharuddin Ahmad
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Khaidzir Ismail
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Jumali Selamat
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Kadir Arifin
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Kadaruddin Aiyub
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Azahan Awang
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Mohd Fuad Mat. Jali
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Z.M. Lukman
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A. Khairul
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One of the important soft skills that have always been stressed by the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education for the university students to acquire during their university’s life is entrepreneurship skill. This soft skill should be an added value to students’ academic qualification once they leave university to face the real world. However, there are many factors that can be obstacles to students to acquire this soft skill such as shyness, social environment, academic stress, etc. It is therefore, this study attempts to examine to what extent factors such as shyness, social, artistic and self-esteem have influence on students’ involvement in entrepreneurship. There were 2,284 1st year students of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) have been chosen as respondents and each of them was provided with a set of questionnaire consisting of seven domains to be answered. SPSS program was used to process the data and then by the path model was employed to analyze the data. The path coefficients were computed by using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results showed that the most influential factor on students’ entrepreneurial activities was social behavior with the path coefficient of 0.35. Even though, shyness has a small negative path coefficient, i.e., -0.08, it agreed with the assumption that by reducing this students’ personality trait, it will increases the involvement of them in entrepreneurial activities. Based on the residuals (e) of the regressions and other statistical tests, it is confirmed that other unexplained variables should be considered in an attempt to find the most influential factors on students’ involvement in entrepreneurial activities. |
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Jumali Selamat
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Khaidzir Ismail
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Kadaruddin Aiyub
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Z.M. Lukman
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Kadir Arifin
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Roslee Rajikan
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Azahan Awang
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Mohd. Helmi Abd Rahim
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Norfadillah Derahim
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Co-curricular or extra-curricular activities are an integral
part of knowledge in supporting students’
generic skills development in order to become quality human capital. In general,
the co-curricular activities in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Malaysia
are of similar fields. However, the institutions have their own way to assess
and evaluate the students’ involvements
in these activities. In relation to this, as of 2010/2011 academic session,
the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) has implemented a more flexible approach
whereby student are given more freedom at choosing, creating and carrying out
the activities based on a learning contract which are drawn out and agreed upon
by the students and supervisors prior to the implementation of the said activities.
A survey was conducted in order to determine the level of knowledge and understanding
among students in relation to the learning contract and their readiness to use
the learning contract in their next co-curricular activities. A set of questionnaire
was developed and used as a research tool for that purposes. A total of 51 respondents
were selected from Training for Trainers (TOT) workshop to participate in this
survey. The study found that the level of understanding (mean = 4.06-4.16) and
acceptance (mean = 4.02-4.46) on co-curricular activities learning contract
among students are excellent. It was also reported that 86% of the students
have clear knowledge about the learning contract and its implementation for
co-curricular activities. The majority of students stated that they had achieved
all the learning contract principles (mean = 3.92-4.25) and learning outcomes
(mean = 4.00-4.18) required. In general, this research showed positive results
on the implementation of learning contract in co-curricular activities in the
UKM. The new approach to implementing and assessing co-curricular activities
has already been accepted by most UKM students. Nevertheless, in order to achieve
the optimum results, continuous steps should be taken by the respective parties
to ensure that the students are well informed about the status of the learning
contract. |
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