Showing papers by "National University of Malaysia published in 1973"

Achievement motivation and academic performance

Abstract: Satu percubaan dibuat untuk mencari pertalian diantara penggerakan pencapaian dun pencapaian akademik. Dua skil untuk mengukur penggerakanpencapaian yaifu Mehabian Achievement Scale(MAS)dan Russell's Achievement Motivation Scale (RAMS) diujikan kapada pelajar-pelajar Melayu yang mengikuti kursus Saikoloji Asas disalah sebuah universiti di Malaysia. Keputusan menunjukkan ada korilasi posiiif dun yang bererti diantara kedua-dua skil itu dun diantara MAS dun kerja kursus dalam pelajar-pelajar perempuan sahaja. Kerja kursus didapati mempunyai korilasi positif dun yang bererti dengan keputusan peperiksaan akhir dalanz pelajarpelajar laki-laki sahaja. Perbedzaan yang bererti juga terdapat dalam penggerakan pencapaian dian fara laki-laki dun perempuan. Perbedzaan-perbedzaan didalam keputusan adalah dibincangkan. SYNOPSIS An attempt was made to relate achievement motivation to academic performance. Two scales for measuring achievement motivation i.e. Mehrabian Achievement Scale (MAS) and Russell's Achiel~ment Motivation Scale (RAMS) were administered to Malay students attending Basic Psychology course at one of the universities in Malaysia. The results indicated a positive significant correlation between the two scales and between MAS and course work in fernale subjects only. Course work was found to have positive correlation with final examination in males only. A significant difference in achievement motivation was also found between males and females. The differences in the results were discussed. It is generally agreed that a major variable affecting academic performance is motivation. The importance of motivational variables in helping to understand, predict and control academic performance isalways assumed but it hasnotled to any theory of academicmotivation. However, Atkinson'

A brief historical review of philosophical terminology in arabic

Abstract: Before Arabic spread to the neighbouring countries through the Islamic conquest, its vocabulary had already assimilated foreign words as a result of contact with neighbouring people. Following the Islamic conquest, Arabic took new forms unknown to the language before. The Mu'tazilite introduced a new style and philosophical terminology to meet the challenge of the time. In the Ummayad period, the form of secular prose was inspired, to a certain extent, by the Sasanid literature. The Sasanid cultures and traditions began to influence the Arab. The Abbasid period saw the beginning of the translation from Greek scientific and philosophical works into Arabic. The Caliphs themselves took the initiative and the learned men, irrespective of creeds and religious, rubbed shoulders together. The translators introduced terminology including the philosophical. They were not concerned with theology, mysticism or religious speculation because most of them were not Muslims and the chief interest of the Caliphs, who ordered the translation, was in medicine and philosophy. Since the Semitic languages are different from the peculiarities of Indo-European morphology and syntax, the translations considerably failed to convey the ideas precisely. Despite the difficulties, philosophical terminology grew up as the result of the flourishing and advancing stages of Islamic-Arabic literatures. The language expended, to meet the needs of the developments, from within by giving new meanings to old words or forming new words from old roots, and from without by arabisation.