The Attitudes of MTUN Students towards m-Learning Usage during COVID-19 Pandemic

Open and Distance Learning (ODL) is an online Teaching and Learning (T&L) method that has been implemented to all educational institutions in Malaysia to curb the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this study is to identify the attitude level of Malaysian Technical University Network (MTUN) students towards the Mobile Learning (M-learning) usage in ODL methods during the COVID-19 pandemic situation. The total number of respondents involved was 481 engineering students from four MTUN institutions. The study design used is quantitative which uses a questionnaire as a research instrument. The questionnaire used measures three elements of students' attitudes in the aspect of affective, behavior and cognitive towards M-learning implementation. Results were analyzed using descriptive statistics involving the use of mean and standard deviation while inferential statistics involved One-way ANOVA analysis. Result shows that attitudes level of MTUN students towards M-learning was at moderate level for two (2) aspects of affective and cognitive while the behavior aspect was rated at high level. Meanwhile, the result of one-way ANOVA showed no significant difference between the attitudes of student towards ODL across year of studies. Therefore, it can be concluded that the students of MTUN institutions had positive attitudes towards the implementation of M-learning with year of study in the university does not have influence on student’s attitude towards M-learning environment. It is advisable that the use of M-learning in the future needs to be enriched with the features of 21st century learning as to enhance students learning experiences. © 2022 by the authors.

Student teachers' attitude and self-esteem towards online learning: Application of rasch measurement model

The spread of the COVID-19 epidemic has changed the education delivery system. Educators are encouraged to continue the online teaching process to ensure that students can continue to learn whereby a program or course which is designed intentionally to be carried out fully online through some platforms that include Skype, Zoom, Google meet, Webex, and Kahoot. Thus, there is a need in conducting a study to identify the attitude and self-esteem towards online learning especially among student teachers. Therefore, this study aims to investigate student teachers' attitude towards online learning, student's teacher's self-esteem towards online learning and also the relationship between attitude and self-esteem towards online learning among student teachers. A total of 143 student teachers who undergo their teaching practicum are involved in this study. There are two instruments used in this study which are self-develop (Questionnaire measuring Attitude) and adopted instrument from the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Inventory (RSES). All the collected data were analysed by using Rasch Measurement Model. Based on the result, the student's teachers show better attitude in the aspect of cognitive but negative attitude in the aspect of affective and behaviour. Meanwhile, the overall student teachers have moderate level of self-esteem. Findings showed that the self-esteem was significantly positive and moderately related with attitude towards the correlation coefficient .500. In conclusion, attitude and self-esteem are the important aspect for an educator in order to maintain a good teaching and effective learning process to the students even in facing an emergency situation. © 2020 by authors.