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Improving Oral Presentation Skills of Engineering Undergraduates through Self-evaluation

Oral presentation skills is a valuable attribute to graduates.Some universities, especially those offering hard sciences programs, design courses specifically to instill this soft skill. Assessments are meant for lecturers to evaluate students’ ability however, students need self-evaluation to prope...

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Main Authors: Azelin, Mohamed Noor, Embong, Abdul Mutalib
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2012
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LB2300 Higher Education
Online Access:http://eprints.utp.edu.my/8213/1/1569569317.pdf
http://www.utp.edu.my/icmesh2012/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=76&Itemid=80
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spelling my.utp.eprints.82132017-01-19T08:21:37Z Improving Oral Presentation Skills of Engineering Undergraduates through Self-evaluation Azelin, Mohamed Noor Embong, Abdul Mutalib LB2300 Higher Education Oral presentation skills is a valuable attribute to graduates.Some universities, especially those offering hard sciences programs, design courses specifically to instill this soft skill. Assessments are meant for lecturers to evaluate students’ ability however, students need self-evaluation to propel their presentation skills. A self-review questionnaire is administered at two pre-determined times on students taking a professional communication course in a private engineering and technology focused university. Findings suggest that undergraduates are able to identify areas that need improvement and improve on those areas. Interestingly, it is found that the majority of them depend on gaining knowledge from their lecturers and lectures throughout the course.It can be concluded that these undergraduates had almost no prior knowledge of the skills taught in the course but had gained knowledge necessary in becoming a presenter as they experienced the course. 2012-06 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utp.edu.my/8213/1/1569569317.pdf http://www.utp.edu.my/icmesh2012/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=76&Itemid=80 Azelin, Mohamed Noor and Embong, Abdul Mutalib (2012) Improving Oral Presentation Skills of Engineering Undergraduates through Self-evaluation. In: ESTCON - ICMeSH2012, June 12-14, 2012, KLCC, Kuala Lumpur. http://eprints.utp.edu.my/8213/
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Azelin, Mohamed Noor
Embong, Abdul Mutalib
Improving Oral Presentation Skills of Engineering Undergraduates through Self-evaluation
description Oral presentation skills is a valuable attribute to graduates.Some universities, especially those offering hard sciences programs, design courses specifically to instill this soft skill. Assessments are meant for lecturers to evaluate students’ ability however, students need self-evaluation to propel their presentation skills. A self-review questionnaire is administered at two pre-determined times on students taking a professional communication course in a private engineering and technology focused university. Findings suggest that undergraduates are able to identify areas that need improvement and improve on those areas. Interestingly, it is found that the majority of them depend on gaining knowledge from their lecturers and lectures throughout the course.It can be concluded that these undergraduates had almost no prior knowledge of the skills taught in the course but had gained knowledge necessary in becoming a presenter as they experienced the course.
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author Azelin, Mohamed Noor
Embong, Abdul Mutalib
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title Improving Oral Presentation Skills of Engineering Undergraduates through Self-evaluation
title_short Improving Oral Presentation Skills of Engineering Undergraduates through Self-evaluation
title_full Improving Oral Presentation Skills of Engineering Undergraduates through Self-evaluation
title_fullStr Improving Oral Presentation Skills of Engineering Undergraduates through Self-evaluation
title_full_unstemmed Improving Oral Presentation Skills of Engineering Undergraduates through Self-evaluation
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url http://eprints.utp.edu.my/8213/1/1569569317.pdf
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http://eprints.utp.edu.my/8213/
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