International Journal of Educational Best Practices
International Journal of Educational Best Practices (IJEBP) is a peer-reviewed academic journal of studies in educational issues, both theories and practices, published biannually by the School of Postgraduate Studies of Universitas Riau, Indonesia, every April and October. The journal prioritizes research reports on educational theories and practices. However, viewpoint and conceptual articles in the field of education will also be considered for publication. The scope includes theories and practices in the field of education: educational management, language education, science education, art education, civic education, history education, and other related fields. The Articles submitted should follow the Author Guidelines.
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<![CDATA[An Analysis of English Proficiency of the Students of Universitas Riau – Indonesia ]]>
<![CDATA[Ras, Fakhri]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Educational Best Practices Vol. 1 No. 1 (2017) ]]>
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DOI: 10.31258/ijebp.1.1.111-122
<![CDATA[The objectives of this study are to: (1) acknowledge the students’ English competence based on the taken majors and study programs, (2) determine the general English competence (TOEFL Equivalent). The target group of the study is all students who took English language at various faculties and at the same time also enrolled at TOEFL Equivalent at UPT Bahasa Universitas Riau (Language Center). The number of the population is 9.765 the students. Due to the homogenous characters of the population, 20% out of the population (1.953 students) were taken as sample of the research. TOEFL Equivalent compiled by the Language Center of Universitas Riau was used to collect the needed data. Descriptive statistics was operated to compute the data in order to get mean of the TOEFL Equivalent scores. Inferential statistics (Annova) was applied to differentiate the scores of TOEFL Equivalent obtained by various backgrounds of the students (gender, program taken at Universitas Riau, majors at senior high schools, region of their senior high schools, school status and ethnic groups). After analysing the data, it was found that female students’ mean score is higher (405) than the male’s (402); the mean TOEFL score of the study program taken at Universitas Riau in which the English Students is the highest (432) among a lot of study programs; the mean score of the students of Riau Province is higher (420) than the Riau Archipelago Province (401); the mean score of students of private schools is higher (405) than the state schools (404); the mean of TOEFL score of Language and Art is the highest (432) among three majors (natural science, social science and other science). The last is the Chinese / Tionghoa mean of TOEFL score is the highest (438) among existing ethnic groups. The findings suggest that the students of Universitas Riau should be aware of understanding parts of the TOEFL materials like listening, reading, and structure especially in the area of their difficulties.]]>
<![CDATA[Pre-Service Teachers’ Integration into Teachers’ Community during Teaching Practicum ]]>
<![CDATA[Afrianto]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Educational Best Practices Vol. 1 No. 1 (2017) ]]>
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DOI: 10.31258/ijebp.1.1.3-18
<![CDATA[Teaching practicum is a strategic place where pre-service teachers transform themselves from being pre-service teachers (PSTs) to become novice teachers. Data from a case study on how a group of PSTs experience integrate into teachers’ community during teaching practicum in Indonesian context shows that their journey is not linear; it encompasses a complex process, enriched by tension and conflict before some of them hold a sense of belonging to teachers community in their placement schools. Their ample engagement and participation with members of school community during teaching practicum program have effectively played as a significant factor behind their integration and identity transition.]]>
<![CDATA[Talent Management and Teacher Leadership Talent Development in High Performing School in Malaysia ]]>
<![CDATA[Mohd Hamzah, Mohd Izham]]>;
<![CDATA[Shamsudin, Shuhaida]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Educational Best Practices Vol. 1 No. 1 (2017) ]]>
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DOI: 10.31258/ijebp.1.1.19-37
<![CDATA[Researches on the effective leadership reveal that principals in high performing schools are successful in improving schools outcomes through who they are, the strategies they use, as well as the specific combination and timely implementation and management of these strategies as a result of the unique contexts in which they work. The present research work tries to explore and confirm the talent management factors (TMFs) responsible for developing teacher leadership talent (TLT). The proposed TMFs were tested and validated through a sample of 400 teachers of High Performing School in Malaysia using Amos 19. Hypotheses were tested at a 95% confidence level and the Root Mean Square Error of Approximation (RMSEA), Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI) and Comparative Fit Index (CFI) were used to test the structural equation model of talent management. The obtained RMSEA value was 0.049, TLI value was 0.942 and CFI value was 0.962 which indicated a good model fit and appropriateness. Analysis of the results demonstrated that the level of implementation of talent management falls into the range of being very good and has a significant relationship with a teacher leadership talent development of the organization in the studied population. This study is one of very few studies to provide an integrative perspective of TMFs for developing TLT in high performing school; it adds to the extremely limited number of empirical studies that have been conducted to investigate talent management in the education sector and how teacher leaders start as individual contributors and move up into management and leadership roles.]]>
<![CDATA[The Implementation of Cooperative Learning Model For Critical Thinking Skills in the History Subject at SMA Pekanbaru ]]>
<![CDATA[Isjoni]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Educational Best Practices Vol. 1 No. 1 (2017) ]]>
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DOI: 10.31258/ijebp.1.1.38-56
<![CDATA[In the approach to learning, teachers must be able to create an active, creative, effective, and fun learning. One of the learning approaches that can be used to create this active, creative, effective and fun learning in a group is cooperative learning. Jigsaw was particularly selected from various types of cooperative learning. It was because it is used by researchers in science education, and less popular in social science education. Jigsaw arouse students' attitudes to learning, including in the History subject. Jigsaw that is one ofthe types of cooperative learning models that encourages students to be active and help each others in mastering the subject matter to achieve maximum performance. The aim of the study was to see the different models of cooperative learning on students' critical thinking skills in the History subject. The method used was by using the test statistics with analysis using Excel for Windows. To determine whether there is any differences, tests of paired data (Student's t-test) were conducted. If there are no significant differences between the dependent variable for the pre-test, it will be used followed by ANOVA in the post test. The results showed that there is a difference between the type of cooperative learning model jigsaw with traditional learning in the study on the critical thinking skills of students in the History subject.]]>
<![CDATA[Moving from an L1 to an L2 Setting: Parents’ Motivation for Raising Children Bilingually ]]>
<![CDATA[Restuningrum, Novi Rahayu]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Educational Best Practices Vol. 1 No. 1 (2017) ]]>
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DOI: 10.31258/ijebp.1.1.53-66
<![CDATA[This paper portrays changes in parents’ motivation for raising their children bilingually due to the change of domicile, from parents’ home country as the first language (L1) setting – which is a non English-speaking country – to Australia as their second language (L2) setting. Derived from a larger study done between 2011-2015, the paper describes how parents, who at the time of data collection resided in Australia, changed motivation for communicating with their children bilingually. Evolving from my personal experience, using an auto-ethnographic approach, and supported by data from two other research participants with similar experience, the paper presents a narrative on how parents’ sociolinguistic set-up is influenced by the geographic setting change. An early reason that became apparent why parents want their children to be able to communicate in two languages in the period prior to geographic movement from countries where English is a foreign language has changed after they live in Australia. Parents had been motivated to make their children bilingual when they are in the non-English-speaking contexts because they want their children to be able to fit in the globalised world communication. Meanwhile, their main reason for having bilingual children after they live in Australia is to maintain their heritage language and culture. This paper will enhance the discussion in the field of bilingualism, especially about parents’ motivation for children bilingualism and Family Language Policy (FLP), and will extend the discussion in other language-related field of research. ]]>
<![CDATA[The Students’ Perceptions of the Strategies in the Process Approach ]]>
<![CDATA[Eliwarti]]>;
<![CDATA[Maarof, Nooreiny]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Educational Best Practices Vol. 1 No. 1 (2017) ]]>
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DOI: 10.31258/ijebp.1.1.73-91
<![CDATA[The main objective of this study was to examine the students’ perceptions of the strategies in the Process Approach. The subjects were 30 English Department students of Riau University taught using Process Approach. A set of questionnaire and semi-structured interview were used to collect the data. The level of perceptions was differentiated into three: Highly Positive, Positive and Negative. The results showed that all students had Positive and Highly Positive level of perception and no students had Negative perception of the strategies in the Process Approach. From the results of the interview, five categories were found. All of them reported positive opinions on the Process Approach and considered the editing and revising strategies as most useful. Besides, they stated that the steps in Process Approach were more systematic, specific, comfortable, more meaningful and livelier than other approaches. They all perceived that their writing performance had improved after the Process Approach intervention. The area of improvements were in collecting ideas, editing strategy, choice of words and the way how to write an essay. They also suggested on the application of the Process Approach for other writing classes. The findings from the interviews were in line with the findings from the questionnaire which revealed that students had favorable perceptions of the Process Approach. In light of these findings, it can be suggested that the Process Approach has the potential to be used as alternative instructional tools to improve students’ writing performance.]]>
<![CDATA[Madrasah Education System And Terrorism: Reality And Misconception ]]>
<![CDATA[Mohd Arif, Mohd Izzat Amsyar]]>;
<![CDATA[Abdul Rahman, Nur Hartini]]>;
<![CDATA[Hanapi, Hisham]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Educational Best Practices Vol. 1 No. 1 (2017) ]]>
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DOI: 10.31258/ijebp.1.1.92-101
<![CDATA[Since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the Islamic schools known as madrasah have been of increasing interest to analysts and to officials involved in formulating U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East, Central, and Southeast Asia. Madrasah drew added attention when it became known that several Taliban leaders and Al-Qaeda members had developed radical political views at madrasah in Pakistan, some of which allegedly were built and partially financed through Saudi Arabian sources. These revelations have led to accusations that madrasah promote Islamic extremism and militancy, and are a recruiting ground for terrorism. Others maintain that most of these religious schools have been blamed unfairly for fostering anti-U.S. sentiments and argue that madrasah play an important role in countries where millions of Muslims live in poverty and the educational infrastructure is in decay. This paper aims to study a misconception of the role and functions of Islamic traditional religious schools which have been linked with the activities of terrorism. The study will be specifically focus on practice of the traditional Islamic school, which is locally called as ‘madrasah system’. ]]>
<![CDATA[The Concept of Intellectual Property As Al Mal: An Islamic Perpective Approach ]]>
<![CDATA[Mohd Arif , Mohd Izzat Amsyar]]>;
<![CDATA[Hanapi, Hisham]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Educational Best Practices Vol. 1 No. 1 (2017) ]]>
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DOI: 10.31258/ijebp.1.1.102-108
<![CDATA[The idea of legally acknowledging and protecting the intellectual property is prevalently known in any legal system in the world, but not many people know how this idea is dealt in Islam. Islam as the religion of wholeness (syumul), deals with almost all aspects of life and aims at protecting five main objectives of syariah3 (maqasid al syariah) namely religion (al din), life (al nafs), intellect (al aqal), lineage (al nasl) as well as property (al mal). As the time goes by, people started to realize that human intelligence and creativity shall not be the object of manipulation, thus necessitated them to come up with some sort of protection for their invention by legally acknowledging it as ‘intellectual property’. This paper will try to discuss the position of intellectual property in the Islamic jurisprudence by determining its ‘maaliyyah’ (capable of being considered as property).]]>
<![CDATA[Wasatiyyah Values Appreciation in the Syariah Governance as Consumer Understanding Education Mechanisme towards Islamic Banking System ]]>
<![CDATA[Mohd Arif , Mohd Izzat Amsyar]]>;
<![CDATA[Markom, Ruzian]]>;
<![CDATA[Ismail, Mohd Arif]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Educational Best Practices Vol. 1 No. 1 (2017) ]]>
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DOI: 10.31258/ijebp.1.1.109-120
<![CDATA[The concept and values of wasatiyyah are fundamental in Islamic banking practice as the syariah law has delineated basic muamalat principles as an operation guideline for the banking industry. So that, all kind of extreme characteristics may be prevented. The principles of wasatiyyah prohibit any element which overlooks the permitted limit namely gambling, uncertainty (gharar), usury, fraud and so on. These elements have to be avoided in life because they were clearly prohibited by Allah SWT due to their oppressive nature especially towards the unfortunate such as the poor or low-income group. This prohibition is also attached with the heavy intimidation in the hereafter. The Islamic banking system upholds the concept of wasatiyyah through the values of fairness, trust, transparency and accountability which are instilled through the syariah governance system. The appreciation of these values is proposed to be a part of the new curriculum for the financial awareness subject has been presented by the Malaysia government in the 13th Parliamentary session. It is important to educate and enhance the understanding of the public especially the young about the Islamic banking system as an alternative to avoid the prohibited conventional banking system.]]>
