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This paper aims to measure the satisfaction level of tourists on the attributes associated with adventure lodges. The Holiday Satisfaction Model (HOLSAT) was used to determine the gaps between the expectations of tourists and the experience on 21 adventure lodges attributes. Results were drawn from a questionnaire survey of 280 Malaysian and international tourists who visited the Tadom Hill Resorts located in Selangor, Malaysia in 2018. Data derived from the analysis was plotted into a two-dimensional graph showing the mean score for expectations (Y-axis) plotted against the mean score of experiences (X-axis). Findings reveal that only three attributes gave the most satisfaction to tourists with a significant level at 0.001, with one attribute showing a significant level of dissatisfaction by the tourists. Therefore, the attributes that failed to satisfy tourists should be further investigated to develop strategies to attract tourists and the development of the adventure tourism industry in Malaysia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fintech's rapid growth has changed the application zakat in Malaysia. Digital banking and technology haven't increased Malaysian youth involve in online zakat payments. This study tries to identify why youths adopt Zakat fintech. An online quantitative survey of 150 Zakat Fintech users collected opinions. The study used TRA, TPB, TAM as baseline theory. The proposed framework to achieve objective of study involve variable namely as attitude, subjective norms, perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. The results show that the intention to utilize zakat fintech is positively impacted by subjective norm, perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use and vice versa for Attitude. This study is expected to make a substantial contribution to theories concerning Zakat application. The study provides interested parties with crucial data to understand and improve Zakat application in Malaysia. Additional researchers can utilize the knowledge to develop future research frameworks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study is aimed at investigating the level of teacher-written feedback self-efficacy among Malaysian secondary school teachers and the influence of teachers’ age, gender, qualifications and teaching experiences on their written feedback self-efficacy. Bandura (1986) had mentioned that of all the different aspects of self-knowledge, none is more influential in people’s everyday lives than their personal self-efficacy. People with a high level of self- efficacy expect favourable outcomes, while those who doubt themselves expect mediocre performance, which results in negative outcomes. This research examined the impact of self-efficacy on teacher-written feedback in formative assessment. Self-efficacy is very important to determine how teacher-written feedback is placed in their formative assessment. One hundred sixty-six English language teachers in Selangor participated in this research by completing the survey. This current research reveals that secondary schools’ English teachers’ self-efficacy of teacher-written feedback was mostly unrelated to their demographic factors. The results have shown that there was no significant difference among Malaysian secondary school teachers in relation to their qualification, teaching experience and level of training in written feedback self-efficacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Older people often have chronic diseases which require a continuity of care over the long term. Countries undergoing population aging need to ensure that older people are receiving the care they need. This study assesses the prevalence of, reasons for, and factors associated with unmet healthcare needs among older people individuals in Malaysia. Patients and Methods: This cross-sectional study used data collected during 2018– 2020 from 1204 older adults aged 60 and older selected from Selangor state, Malaysia. A comprehensive face-to-face interview based on the Bahasa Malaysia version of the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study (JAGES-BM) questionnaire was administered to gain information on unmet healthcare needs, socioeconomic factors, health-related factors, and measures of function (activities of daily living, depression, visual impairment, hearing impairment, memory impairment, and walking impairment). Multivariate logistic regression was used to analyze factors associated with their unmet healthcare needs. Results: Overall, the percentage of older people respondents with unmet healthcare needs is 6.6%. The most reported reasons for forgoing or delaying healthcare were lack of knowledge about healthcare and financial barriers to care. The inability to travel alone (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 2.51), being overweight (aOR 1.88), and having self-reported depression (aOR 2.23) were each associated with a higher likelihood of having unmet healthcare needs in their daily life. Conclusion: The prevalence of unmet healthcare needs among older people in this part of Malaysia is lower than that reported in some other countries. However, it is possible to further reduce unmet healthcare needs by improving people's knowledge and attitudes about appropriate healthcare utilization, strengthening financial protection measures and providing support to people at high risk of having unmet healthcare needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To conduct formative research using qualitative methods among stakeholders of secondary schools to explore their perceptions, barriers and facilitators related to healthy eating and physical activity (PA) among Malaysian adolescents.Design: A qualitative study involving eight focus groups and twelve in-depth interviews. Focus groups and interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim. An inductive thematic analysis approach was used to analyse the data.Setting: Four secondary schools in Perak and Selangor states (two urban and two rural schools) in Malaysia.Participants: Focus groups were conducted with seventy-six adolescents aged 13-14 years, and in-depth interviews were conducted with four headmasters, four PA education teachers and four food canteen operators.Results: Stakeholders thought that adolescents' misperceptions, limited availability of healthy options, unhealthy food preferences and affordability were important challenges preventing healthy eating at school. Low-quality physical education (PE) classes, limited adolescent participation and teachers' commitment during lessons were perceived as barriers to adolescents being active at school. Affordability was the main challenge for adolescents from rural schools. Stakeholders perceived that a future school-based intervention should improve the availability and subsidies for healthy foods, provide health education/training for both adolescents and PE teachers, enhance active adolescent participation in PE and develop social support mechanisms to facilitate engagement with PA.Conclusions: These findings provide important insights into developing school-based lifestyle interventions to improve healthy eating and strengthening PA of Malaysian adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Malaysian Nature Education in Preschool (MyNEPs) is an initiative to incorporate nature education in the preschool syllabus. It involves learning and hands-on practice in a natural environment setting on five nature elements (climate, flora, fauna, insects, and microbes). This research aims to assess the efficacy of the MyNEPs module towards preschool children through pre-, intervention, and post-assessment. This research adopted an experimental research design using quantitative approaches. A total of 29 preschool children from Bangi, Selangor were involved in this study. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics involving normality tests and paired sample t-test. The data normality was measured using the Shapiro-Wilk test, and the result indicated that the data is normally distributed where p=0.072 > 0.05. The overall t-test result shows significant differences (p=0.006) between pre- and post-achievement, with the total mean of post-test was higher with 35.90 than pre-test achievement with 33.59. This result indicated that this module significantly contributes to children's performance on nature prior to the intervention program. As a result, this study shows that the nature education program proposed has improved preschool children's knowledge of the natural environment. Nature education is essential to enhance creativity, problem-solving, and cognitive abilities, thus improving academic performance and setting a strong foundation for science and technology. Therefore, it is suggested that the MyNEPs module should be applied to all preschools premises in Malaysia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Malaysian Mah Meri Tribe’s Mask is one primitive mask which existence has become an artifact stored in the museum and a learning media for younger generations on their culture. Masks that had been created are representations of ancestors and they were used in worshipping ceremonies dedicated to the ancestors. The mask is used for funerals (tiwah), fertility rites, and serves as the provision of the dead in the grave or as the grave watcher (Martono: 2017). Mah Meri tribe is a sub-ethnic group of orang asli who live along the Selangor coast. This community group has settled for a long time in the region and their daily life is farming. Among the routine life of the Mah Meri tribe, there is the Mah Meri mask dance that tells the history of the ancestors of the tribal people who represent animals that live on the ground, in swamps or rivers which they encountered, both having good and bad impacts on their lives. The problem arose when the Mah Meri Tribe animal mask was displayed in the Museum of Asian Art with a lack of information, this is not enough to be used as a learning medium. The research method used is Borg and Gall’s development model which simplified into 4 steps namely: (1). research and information collecting, (2). Planning, (3). develop a preliminary form of product, (4). final product revision. The result of this development is a learning media application that can help tourists of all ages to learn the mask of Orang Asli of Malaysia at the museum more easily. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]