Developing five-minute message through co-curriculum activities

Rustam, Shahrulfadly; Kassim, Mohar

International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences

Int. j. adv. appl. sci.

EISSN: 2313-3724

Print ISSN: 2313-626X

Volume 3, Issue 11 (November 2016), Pages: 52-57

Title: Developing five-minute message through co-curriculum activities

Author(s): Shahrulfadly Rustam *, Mohar Kassim

Affiliation(s):

Centre for Coaching Science, National Defence University of Malaysia, 57000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2016.11.010

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Abstract:

The main objective of this study is to find out the ability of understanding and application about the value of virtues among school students, through the five-minute message virtues module in using on the co-curricular activities. Second objective is to compare the different ability to understand and application the value of virtues between pre-test and post-test among subject. 32 male respondent (N=32) are involved in this study including form four and form five students of MARA Junior Science College Malaysia Pasir Salak branch. The samples are chosen by purposive technique, which the respondent was the member of School Police Cadet Unit. Questionnaire was used at the instrument in this study. The questionnaire was divided into two sections. That is section A is related to students’ background while section B is about the situation at applying the value of virtues. The methodology that being used in this study is quantitative style with quasi-experiment and descriptive to see the effectiveness of module in pre-test and post-test. The questionnaire was analysed using the SPSS software version 22 to calculate the mean and standard deviation. To see the different ability to understand and application the value of virtues, independent samples t was used. The value of reliability for this study instrument was r=0.884. The findings showed post-test mean (M=6.84) in understanding and application the value using the five-minute message virtues module is better than pre-test mean (M=6.55) value using the five-minute message virtues module, in extracurricular activities. The implication at this study, value of five-minute message virtues module is able to show the understanding and the application in the value of virtues in students’ lifetime.

This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Keywords: Value of virtues, Virtues module, Co-curricular activity, Police cadet unit

Article History: Received 6 September 2016, Received in revised form 26 October 2016, Accepted 6 November 2016

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2016.11.010

Citation:

Rustam S and Kassim M (2016). Developing five-minute message through co-curriculum activities. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 3(11): 52-57

http://www.science-gate.com/IJAAS/V3I11/Rustam.html

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