BIOSTATISTIC BIOMEDIC GROUP 5

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BIOSTATISTICBIOMEDIC GROUP 5
1. NG KHEN ENG A126870
2. SHERLYN LIM CHAI YUN A130376
3. NUR SAZWANA BINTI AHAMAD A127288
4. ROS MARISSA BINTI ROSLI A127643
5. WAFA BINTI ZAHARI A127527
6. OOVASI D/O SAMYNAZAN A126710
7. SYAFINAZ BINTI CHE OMAR A 127457
8. CHUA TEONG TEE A126857
9. SITI NURFARHANA BINTI SABIREEN A127606
10. ANG WAN YONG A130464
11. SYAFIQ BIN RAHMAT A122576
13. LEE JIAN SIAN A130411
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Title

• Possession of the transferrable skills on
  employability among first year undergraduates of
  FSK, FFAR, and FGG of UKM.

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Introduction
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IntroductionWhat is transferable skills?What is
the importance in employability?

• Known as key skills, generic skills, core
  skills, soft skills or so on
• Skills which are required in almost any job
  (Stewart et al. 2000)
• There are groups of skills requirements for
  employability such as communication skills, team
  working, problem-solving skills, leadership
  qualities and interpersonal skills. (Petrova
  2001)

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• Transferable skills have a higher rank when
  hiring fresh university graduates as compared to
  academic background, proficiency in the English
  language, performance in interview, adaptability
  to company culture and experience of internship.
  (Ranjit Wahab 2008).

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Research Justification

• To evaluate the possession of transferable skills
  on employability among students in UKM.
• Graduate employers seek a range of transferable
  skills and qualities that students need to be
  able to demonstrate in selection processes (CAES,
  1997 Harvey et al., 1997 Williams and Owen,
  1997)
• Most of the employers now are expecting students
  to possess the transferable skills rather than
  results with flying colours.
• Reveal that whether third year students in UKM KL
  is competent enough in terms of employability.

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RESEARCH QUESTION

• Is there any difference in the possession of
  transferrable skills among third year
  undergraduate students from the Faculty of Health
  Sciences, Faculty of Dental and Faculty of
  Pharmacy in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)?

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GENERAL OBJECTIVE

• To study the possession of transferrable skills
  among the third year undergraduate students from
  Faculty of Health Sciences (FSK), Faculty of
  Dental (FGG) and Faculty of Pharmacy (FFAR) in
  Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Campus Kuala
  Lumpur.

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Specific Objectives

• To explore the possession of transferrable skills
  for employability among the 3rd year
  undergraduate students of FSK,FGG and FFAR.
• To get to know wether the 3rd undergraduate
  students know what transferrable skills are all
  about.
• To educate the 3rd year students the importance
  of transferrable skills for employability

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• To compare the possession of transferrable skills
  among the 3rd year undergraduate students of
  FSK,FGG and FFAR.
• To see the relationship of transferrable skills
  in employability

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Research Hypothesis

• Ho The possession of transferrable skills among
  3rd year undergraduate students of FSK, FGG and
  FFAR were not different
• Ho µ1µ2µ3
• HA The possession of transferrable skills among
  3rd year undergraduate students of FSK, FGG and
  FFAR were different

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Conceptual framework
Extracurricular activities
Working Experience
Race
Professors Addressing Skills in Class
Gender
Possession of Transferable skills
Faculty
Employability of Graduates
Hint Strong Weak Uncertain
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Relationship between Extracurricular Activities
and Possession of Transferable Skills among
Students

• Effects of involvement in co-curricular
  experiences on student persistence in college are
  well documented in the education literature
  (Pascarella et al. 2005).
• Research concerned the outcomes of participating
  in co-curricular experiences for undergraduate
  engineering students (Brian A. Burt et al. 2011)
• Engineering students which are involved in
  co-curricular experiences exhibit greater
  leadership skills, are more thoughtful about
  their ethical decisions, and can articulate how
  involvement influences their ethical development

BACK
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Relationship between Working Experience and
Possession of Transferable Skills among Students

• Work experience is important for gaining
  employability, transferable or generic
  skills, developing an understanding of world and
  work organisations, and understanding the real
  world application of skills (Baird 2005).
• Stevenson (2005) argues that the meanings that
  people derive from work can produce new ways of
  knowing
• Students who had undertaken a work-integrated
  learning experience or a skill-development
  component during their course of study were more
  likely than others to have reflected positively
  on their university experience and to have
  achieved employment within their chosen field
  (Harvey et al. 1997)

BACK
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Transferable skills

• Self motivation
• Communication skill
• Problem solving skill
• Team work skill
• Time management skill
• Leadership
• Enthusiasm
• Critical thinking

BACK
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materials and methods
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Materials and Method

• Demographic Profile
• Name
• Age
• Gender Male and Female
• Race Malay, Chinese, India, and other
• Faculty Dentistry, Pharmacy, Health Science
• Program Biomedical Science, Nutrition,
  Environmental Health and Optometry
• Working experience duration
• Involvement of co-curriculum activities

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• Duration of study
• Two weeks for data collection
• Questionnaires are distributed among third year
  students
• Proportional sampling method
• Simple random sampling method
• Two week for data analysis.
• Descriptive statistics
• Statistical analysis
• Two week for writing report
• Result recorded

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Study Population

• Third year undergraduates from
• - Faculty of Health Science
• - Biomedical Science
• - Optometry
• - Environmental Health
• - Nutrition
• - Faculty of Dentistry
• - Faculty of Pharmacy

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Sampling method

• Proportional random sampling method

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Inclusion / exclusion factors

• Inclusive criteria
• - Third year undergraduates from courses of
  Faculty of Health Sciences
• i. Biomedical Science
• ii. Nutrition
• iii.Optometry
• iv.Environmental Health Science
• -Third year undergraduates from Faculty of
  Dentistry
• -Third year undergraduates from Faculty of
  Pharmacy
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• Exclusive criteria
• Third year undergraduates of
• Biomedical Science students from Biostatistic
  Group 5
• Occupational Therapy
• Diagnostic Imaging and Radiotherapy
• Speech Therapy
• Audiology
• Forensic Science
• Physiotherapy
• Dietetic

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Sample Size Calculation

• Formula used to calculate sample size for
  selected population with known population size

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• We estimate there will be 10 drop out of the
  questionnaire. Hence, 10 is added to the sample
  size of 170

• Thus, a total of 187 persons will be chosen for
  our study from third year undergraduates of
  Faculty of Health Science, Faculty of Dentistry
  and Faculty of Pharmacy

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Sample Size for Each Population
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Dummy Table Questionnaire
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Gantt chart
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