The Effectiveness of Implementing Credit Hours Co-Curricular Courses in Sultan Idris Education University

Abstract

This study aims to identify the role of Co-curriculum Centre in implementing the cocurricular courses for the Bachelor of Education (ISMP) students of Sultan Idris Education University. The survey's design uses questionnaires on the effectiveness of co-curricular courses of UPSI (α = .80) on 811 respondents of eighth semester students. The findings show that all sections are given good feedbacks by the students and state that they agree that the Co-curriculum Centre provides knowledge and experience which are useful to be applied during teaching practice. The highest mean score is co-curriculum content item (m = 3.68), lecturer of the co-curricular course item (m = 3.37), support officer of co-curriculum center item (m = 3.31) and teaching aids (m = 3.15). Through ANOVA, the comparison between the four items shows significant differences of p < .05. The factor of the content of co-curricular courses offered F(3,807) = 12:59, p = .000 and co-curricular course lecturer factor F(3,807) = 4:49, p = .004. While the teaching aids factor and the officers of Co-curriculum Center did not show a significant difference. The findings show that the co-curricular courses are very beneficial to the ISMP students in guiding them to implement co-curricular activities during the teaching practice in schools. Nevertheless, the Co-curriculum Centre should always be ready to provide beneficial courses, experienced lecturer, sufficient facilities and teaching aids, and dedicated officers.

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“…Knowledge, experience and skills that contain intellectual elements, self-discipline, leadership, entrepreneurship, creativity, innovation, love for nature, citizenship, loyalty to the nation, culture and national integration will help students determine their direction of life in the future [9][10]. A co-curriculum course basically has their own specific goal that are to assist the university to produce skilled, balanced, and harmonious graduates in spiritual, intellectual, emotional, social, and physical aspects in line with the aspiration of the National Education Philosophy [2].…”

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