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Non-technical skill level of electrical engineering undergraduates using the rasch measurement model

Currently, employers seek employees, especially fresh graduates, to have good non-technical skills. They complain that the engineering students lack in non-technical skills but good in technical skills. Thus, it is the responsibility of the university to equip students with enough non-technical skil...

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Main Authors: Md. Nasir, A. N., Kamin, Y., Noordin, M. K.
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Published: 2020
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L Education (General)
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/86933/
https://dx.doi.org/10.37200/IJPR/V24I5/PR2020246
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spelling my.utm.869332020-10-22T04:15:54Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/86933/ Non-technical skill level of electrical engineering undergraduates using the rasch measurement model Md. Nasir, A. N. Kamin, Y. Noordin, M. K. Md. Nasir, A. N. L Education (General) Currently, employers seek employees, especially fresh graduates, to have good non-technical skills. They complain that the engineering students lack in non-technical skills but good in technical skills. Thus, it is the responsibility of the university to equip students with enough non-technical skills before entering a competitive workplace. Industrial training provides an opportunity for students to develop their non-technical skills. This study determines the non-technical skills level of electrical engineering undergraduates using the Rasch Measurement Model (RMM). The questionnaire was distributed to 326 electrical engineering undergraduates who had undergone their industrial training from seven public universities in Malaysia after the questionnaire has passed the reliability and reliability tests. The finding shows that the level of overall non-technical skills after industrial training is at Moderately Low. When the non-technical skills are looked as individual skills, the findings show that communication skills, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills and teamwork skills are at Moderately Low and Low levels, respectively. However, other skills like entrepreneur skills, engineering ethics, lifelong learning and computing skills are at Very High Level. To make sure the students can develop those Moderately Low and Low-level skills, the issues in the industrial training involving placement, training duration, type of training/task given, and assessment should be reduced to make sure students can gain the most valuable training which benefits all the parties who are industries, universities, and students. 2020-04 Article PeerReviewed Md. Nasir, A. N. and Kamin, Y. and Noordin, M. K. and Md. Nasir, A. N. (2020) Non-technical skill level of electrical engineering undergraduates using the rasch measurement model. International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, 24 (5). pp. 5388-5403. ISSN 1475-7192 https://dx.doi.org/10.37200/IJPR/V24I5/PR2020246 DOI:10.37200/IJPR/V24I5/PR2020246
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topic L Education (General)
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Md. Nasir, A. N.
Kamin, Y.
Noordin, M. K.
Md. Nasir, A. N.
Non-technical skill level of electrical engineering undergraduates using the rasch measurement model
description Currently, employers seek employees, especially fresh graduates, to have good non-technical skills. They complain that the engineering students lack in non-technical skills but good in technical skills. Thus, it is the responsibility of the university to equip students with enough non-technical skills before entering a competitive workplace. Industrial training provides an opportunity for students to develop their non-technical skills. This study determines the non-technical skills level of electrical engineering undergraduates using the Rasch Measurement Model (RMM). The questionnaire was distributed to 326 electrical engineering undergraduates who had undergone their industrial training from seven public universities in Malaysia after the questionnaire has passed the reliability and reliability tests. The finding shows that the level of overall non-technical skills after industrial training is at Moderately Low. When the non-technical skills are looked as individual skills, the findings show that communication skills, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills and teamwork skills are at Moderately Low and Low levels, respectively. However, other skills like entrepreneur skills, engineering ethics, lifelong learning and computing skills are at Very High Level. To make sure the students can develop those Moderately Low and Low-level skills, the issues in the industrial training involving placement, training duration, type of training/task given, and assessment should be reduced to make sure students can gain the most valuable training which benefits all the parties who are industries, universities, and students.
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author Md. Nasir, A. N.
Kamin, Y.
Noordin, M. K.
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Kamin, Y.
Noordin, M. K.
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title Non-technical skill level of electrical engineering undergraduates using the rasch measurement model
title_short Non-technical skill level of electrical engineering undergraduates using the rasch measurement model
title_full Non-technical skill level of electrical engineering undergraduates using the rasch measurement model
title_fullStr Non-technical skill level of electrical engineering undergraduates using the rasch measurement model
title_full_unstemmed Non-technical skill level of electrical engineering undergraduates using the rasch measurement model
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