Assessing Employability Skills among Special Education Student Teachers in Malaysia

DOI

10.2991/acpch-17.2018.33How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Graduate employability, Special Education, student teachers, Malaysia

Abstract

The aim of this study is to assess employability skills among Special Education student teachers in Malaysia with regards to gender and years of study.. Employability skills is conceptualized by 8 generic skills namely, Communication, Critical Thinking, Adaptation, Teamwork, Leadership, Moral and Ethical, ICT and Social. A total of 258 student teachers who enrol in Special Education programme provide reponses for this study. Result shows that female student teachers demonstrate higher mean score for all skills with significant differences are reported for Critical Thinking, ICT, Leadership, Moral, and Social skills. Year 4 student teachers show lowest score in the employability skill as well as for Adaptation, Critical Thinking, Leadership, Moral, Social, Teamwork domains.

Copyright

© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zainudin Mohd Isa
AU  - Ahmad Zamri Khairani
PY  - 2018/02
DA  - 2018/02
TI  - Assessing Employability Skills among Special Education Student Teachers in Malaysia
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd ASEAN Conference on Psychology, Counselling, and Humanities (ACPCH 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 170
EP  - 173
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/acpch-17.2018.33
DO  - 10.2991/acpch-17.2018.33
ID  - Isa2018/02
ER  -