Volume : 2, Issue : 11, NOV 2016

STUDENT’S FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE OF AMERICAN DEGREE TRANSFER PROGRAM IN MALAYSIA

M. Faizal, V. Kalarani, A. Amirah

Abstract

The first year is a very essential year as students transition themselves from the traditional exam oriented school system to a more flexible and holistic education system practiced in American Degree Program in Taylor?s University. Therefore, the psychometric validation is executed in order to have a better knowledge of both behavioral and attitudinal dimensions. The overall findings are largely positive with a few aspects of distress expressed such as finance. Meanwhile the respond rates among students who participated in the survey had shown a high percentage. Most of the correlation findings on the other items had found positive correlation with what the students had learned during orientation and the categories of the aspect in university life.

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