e-PRACTICUM

APPLICATION OF

e-PRACTICUM

IN TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTEIN TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTE

(IPG Campus Kent)

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Benny Kong Tze Loong*, Kok Boon Shiong**,

Teh Ah Huat** and Tiong Hong Keong***

*Science and Mathematics Department

**Educational Technology Department

***Lingustics Department

Teacher Training Insitute, Kent Campus(IPG K Kent)

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With the advancement of educational technology, higher

education and teacher training institutes are utilizing

technology to enhance teaching and learning.

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Practicum is embedded in Insitut Pendidikan Guru (IPG)

curriculum to facilitate students’ teaching practices in

school.

Introduction

school.

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In teacher training institutes, enhancement of forming

professional attributes and a smooth transition into a full

time teaching career have been the core

objectives for practicum.

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Practikum

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Plan

DoAct

Daily Lesson Plan

ImplemenationImprovement

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Practikum

Do

Check

Act Implemenation

Reflection

Improvement

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Kursus Perguruan Lepasan Ijazah (KPLI) is a nine months

training programme for post graduate and Praticum is a

14 weeks “internship” in school.

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A lecturer/supervisor will make 6 visit:

1 pre-visit, 2 for major, 2 minor & Final-visit

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Pre-Visit Final-VisitMajor Minor

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A student might be visited by a lecturer/supervisor in

every two or three weeks.

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Rationale of the Research Study

How do lecturers efficiently and effectively provide

standards-based feedback and maintain records of each

student’s progress especially during the 14 weeks

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student’s progress especially during the 14 weeks

practicum session?

Given limited face-to-face mentoring, how do lecturers

monitor and reflect upon their development over time?

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Students come to visit Lecturer after school?

SMS? eMail? Online

Forum?

Online

Group?

Social

Network?

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The development and implementation of a

practicum online system that would require

students to upload lesson plan, discuss with

lecturer and complete their portfolio.

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.The development and implementation of a

practicum online system that would require

students to upload lesson plan, discuss with

lecturer and complete their portfolio.

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lecturer and complete their portfolio.

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Research Methodology

This research is descriptive and analytical in nature and

has hence adopted both quantitative and qualitative

method.

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The researcher conducts a mixed method study because

both quantitative and qualitative data were collected

could provide a better understanding of the research

problems.

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Purpose of the Study

The purpose of the study is to determine the suitability

of the design in “myKent Praktikum” in supporting the

practicum session of the institute based on the students’

perception.

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perception.

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Sample of the Study

All 39 Kursus Perguruan Lepasan Ijazah (KPLI) students

from the Linguistics department (Major:BC/Manderin)

took part in this research.

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Result of the Study

1) The System Support (Action recorded in the system)

2) Students’ Perception (Questionnaire)

3) Students’ Perception (Interview: Strength)

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3) Students’ Perception (Interview: Strength)

4) Students’ Perception (Interview :Challenges)

5) Lecturers’ Perception (Questionnaire)

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Result of the Study

1) The System Support (Action recorded in the system)

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Result of the Study

1) The System Support (Action recorded in the system)

The system database(myKentPraktikum) shown that there are 11531

actions recorded for the period of implementation.

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actions recorded for the period of implementation.

Students have uploaded 2337 (59.92 perperson) Lesson Plan,

resubmitted 1864 (47.79 perperson) Lesson Plan (after commented by

lecturer/supervisor).

This is a very high ratio compare to TWO face to face visit (without

support by system) by the lecturer/supervisor.

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Result of the Study

2) Students’ Perception (Questionnaire)

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Result of the Study

3) Students’ Perception (Interview: Strength)

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Result of the Study

4) Students’ Perception (Interview :Challenges)

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Result of the Study

5) Lecturers’ Perception (Questionnaire)

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Discussion

myKentPrak can provide 24/7 or fulltime support for the

users where interactive between students and

lecturer/supervisor are more frequent and instant.

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Students agreed that myKentPrak is efficient, user friendly

and can provide feedback to them to improve their lesson

plans.

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Concluding Remarks

With the advanced in technology, using system to monitor

and support students’ practicum can create a lot of impact

to the students, especially for the pre-service teacher

training.

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training.

Thus, myKentPrak is efficient and practical in use for the

Teacher Training Institute

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THANK YOU!

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