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INSTILLING GOOD VALUES AMONG THE TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL BACHELOR’S DEGREE STUDENTS DURING THEIR PRACTICAL TRAINING IN THE LABORATORY
1 Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (MALAYSIA)
2 Politeknik Kota Melaka (MALAYSIA)
3 Sekolah Menengah Dato' Menteri, Ayer Hitam (MALAYSIA)
About this paper:
Appears in: ICERI2012 Proceedings
Publication year: 2012
Pages: 2158-2165
ISBN: 978-84-616-0763-1
ISSN: 2340-1095
Conference name: 5th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation
Dates: 19-21 November, 2012
Location: Madrid, Spain
Abstract:
Good values are the foundation values which lead to the behaviour and important to be instilled to each individual particularly to the students. However, based on the previous researches, good values are less practiced among the students especially during their practical training in the laboratory. Therefore, this research is conducted to identify how far the students and lecturer have instilled the good values during the teaching and learning processes in the laboratory. About 226 Bachelor of Technical and Vocational Education’s students are the respondents in this research. Questionnaire is the major instrument in this research beside interview and observation as the backup methods. The findings of this research indicate that students instil and practice all the good values involved in this research. However, it was found out that only several number of the lecturers instil and practice the good values to the students during the teaching and learning processes in the laboratory. So, researcher have offered a few suggestions to ensure the lecturers and students do instil and practice the good values such as: The Authority of Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) need to do scheduled observation to ensure lecturers and students do instil and practice good values during teaching and learning processes.
Keywords:
Good values, practical training and University of Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM).