CONTRIBUTING FACTORS TOWARDS DIFFICULTIES IN GENERATING IDEAS AMONG TECHNICAL STUDENTS

dc.creator	Yee Mei Heong
dc.date	2013-06-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:06:36Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:06:36Z
dc.identifier	2229-8932
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/f855088191574792b72fc670913760ec
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/10630
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/f855088191574792b72fc670913760ec
dc.description	<em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-ansi-language: MS; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="MS">Idea is a thought </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">or </span></em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><a href="http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/collection.html"><em><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">collection</span></em></a></span><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> of thoughts that are important to decision making and problem solving. </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-ansi-language: MS; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="MS"> T</span><span class="longtext1"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">he purpose of this research was to analysis the factors contributing to difficulty in generating ideas among t</span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">echnical students.  <span class="longtext1"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">A total of 375 technical students from four technical u</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-ansi-language: MS-BN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="MS-BN">niversities in Malaysia </span><span class="longtext1"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">were randomly selected as samples.  A set of questionnaires was developed and used as research instrument.  </span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">The findings indicated that a total of 319 (</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-ansi-language: MS-BN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="MS-BN">85.1%) technical students faced difficulties in solving individual </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">assignments.  </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Most of the problem faced by technical students is the difficulty of generating ideas for solving </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-ansi-language: MS-BN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="MS-BN">individual </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">assignments.  The most difficult </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-ansi-language: MS-BN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="MS-BN">individual </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">assignment is </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">critical review or summary of articles.  Deadlock of ideas is the most important factor in the difficulty to generate ideas among technical students.  A total of 261 students (69.6%) also believed that the difficulty of generating ideas is a key factor affecting the achievement of the students’ assignments.  As a result, difficulties in generating ideas lead to students having problems in completing their assignment.  Therefore, students need to learn higher order thinking skills which are essential skills enabling students to generate ideas and consequently complete assignments</span></em>
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
dc.relation	http://penerbit.uthm.edu.my/ojs/index.php/JTET/article/view/690
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2229-8932
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	Journal of Technical Education and Training, Vol 5, Iss 1 (2013)
dc.subject	Factors of Difficulty
dc.subject	Technical Students
dc.subject	Generating Idea
dc.subject	Malaysia Technical University Network
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	CONTRIBUTING FACTORS TOWARDS DIFFICULTIES IN GENERATING IDEAS AMONG TECHNICAL STUDENTS
dc.type	Article