ACADEMIC EXERCISE

(EDU650)

THESIS PROPOSAL

Prepared from :
NURIN SARAHAH BINTI SOFIAN
2016354225
ED242/8B

Prepared for :
MADAM FARHANI BINTI OTHMAN
 Students’ Perception Towards The Effectiveness of teaching And

Learning in Wood Carving

CHAPTER 1

Introduction

Since the advancement of the Malaysian education system as curriculum had

been reformed from KBSM to KSSM starting 2017, devoting on development of

students comprehensively engaging intellectual, spiritual, emotional and physical

dimensions via the creative thinking, innovation, problem solving and leadership.

Malaysian education field is to provide to new generation generating community of

‘design’ and placed from ‘opportunity’.

According the former of Education Minister, Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid, the

curriculum encounter the teaching-centred to the students and centering of the

attention on problem solving and project-based assignment which Visual Art

Education need in master the efficiency and skills along to build identity that is well-

balanced.

To fulfil this function, several actions have been propose to improve the

mastering of the skills among students as well as teachers. Among other ideas that

have been proposed is to attract students’ interest towards the subject Visual Art

Education by using components that are possible to empower the students’ interest

towards the subject Visual Art Education.

Based on new curriculum as stated in KSSM, focusing on problem solving

and project-based assignments are more connected with to the topic of visual art

education which is wood carving. This topic requires skills, problem solving and
creative thinking to work in carving through the teaching and learning in order to

development the efficiency of wood carving and teacher needs to possess ideas to

attract the students’ interest throughout facilitating them towards this topic.

Research Background

This research need to finding out the students’ perception towards the

effectiveness of teaching and learning in wood carving through making the

comparison on two classes of SMKA Sheikh Abdul Malek. The researcher choose

this school because it was recognized barely as one of the ‘sekolah agama’ that

receive as International Baccalaureate (IB) school. The reason why that school

chosen by researcher, it because that school is the cluster level school previously

and recently accept the high level education. This school also more concentrated on

the examination-oriented.

Through this study, it is wishes that it will assist to obtain some effectiveness

by the students of teaching and learning in wood carving. Researcher will be make

clarification whether the topic of wood carving effective and competent to the

students or instead by discover throughout some method.

The researcher will make the hypothesis in which might find out the

effectiveness of teaching and learning in wood carving by teacher and students also

nurture the students’ interest towards Visual Art Education subject. To strengthen the

study, researcher will do the comparison between two group of classes with differ

level of IQ through the survey questionnaire about their perspective on the wood

carving and also making experiment to seek the problem faced by students in wood

carving. Others, researcher also do the interview session with method face to face
interview in which the information will get instantly. This method researcher can

obtain the knowledge of strategies provide by teacher in instilling students’ interest.

Problem Statement

Visual Art Education is not a core subject in school and always neglected and

perceived as one of the subjects that are not vital in schools. Regarding this matter,

teachers, parents and students tend to compromise and focusing more the core

subjects and assumed that subjects more important to learn. They did not realize,

the creation of art is capable of functioning as a most finely detailed medium to

deliver information, critiques and other ideas throughout the critical thinking, problem

solving and innovative process and continuously produce students possess high skill

in innovation.

According with learning trend these days which is an examination-oriented

that focuses on examination’s result, the success of teaching by the teachers is

evaluate more from the angle of students’ excellent achievement. Our hopes in wood

carving learning and teaching is much more than that – in general, students should

possess great and permanent affection for the wood carving. The reality from this

hope is the driving force behind teachers that are open to new perspectives in wood

carving teaching.

Teachers who teach wood carving must be aware of students’ problems when

learning that topic. Whereas teachers’ difficulty in using the traditional apparatus is

that the teachers lack the skills that can help to build up the students’ interest. Most

of the times, teachers tend to teach lessons that are difficult to comprehend by the

students. This leads to a process of teaching and learning that is incomprehensible

by the students.
Research Objective

1) To investigate the teachers’ strategies in teaching wood carving.

2) To find out students’ perceptions toward on wood carving.

3) To examine the problem faced by the students in learning wood carving.

Research Question

1) How the teachers’ strategies in teaching wood carving.

2) What the students’ perceptions toward on wood carving.

3) What are the problem faced by the students in learning wood carving.

CHAPTER 2

Literature Review

This research related with the cultural matters which fame in the Southeast

Asia there is a wood carving. This culture product is the one of art that engaging with

hand craft. Hence, the researcher take this topic to experiment about the perspective

of students and also the teaching strategy by the teacher.

Wood carving is process carve the wood to create a three dimensional

design of product. To carve the wood, it need to use the variety of tools in order to

make the detailing along with the time needed. Actually wood carving one of

Malaysia culture that use as architecture through the traditional way a long time ago.

The old peoples uses wood carving as their protection and safeguard with using the

different motifs as every motifs have interpretation and also the spirit. (Irfan, 2018)
 The possible related of wood carving to the Visual Art Education is creativity.

When students learn about this topic, creativity will be sparked in created the design

such as motifs. Creativity will be conduct whenever exist of idea development

through the critical thinking and problem solving. According to Mahdzir (2016) said,

The curriculum emphasis the teaching centred on the students and focuses more on

problem-solving, project-based assignments, updating subjects or themes and

implementing formative assessments,". Therefore, as he said all the matters are

consequences to build the creativity directly it will produce students innovative and

continuously exist the competitive society with possess high IQ level.

CHAPTER 3

Research Methodology

This study was designed to investigate the teaching strategies, to find out the

students’ perception and examine the problems faced by the students towards wood

carving. The design will be used based on the questionnaire to collect the data. This

research has two approaches which are quantitative and qualitative. For the

quantitative researcher will use survey and experimental design and the qualitative

approach researcher will use case study design through the interview session.

To collect the data the researcher take a sample from two group to answer

the questionnaire and the data will be collect based on the respondents, surely to

make the survey variables. For the experimental design, researcher will test to two

group from different background of level classes to find out and make comparison

related problems faced by students in wood carving. This two design are quantitative

method that requires to meet the respondents and collect along with obtain the

engaging information. For the qualitative method, researcher will use case study
through to meet up the teacher deal with interview session and ask the question that

related with the information. Other, researcher make some observation about the

level of effectiveness in teaching strategy from the teacher

Population and Sampling

The samples will be utilize in the research is teacher and students in that

school. For the qualitative, researcher use teacher to complete the case study

through the interview session and observation. The quantitative approach researcher

will be use two group with different level of education classes. The survey will take

estimated 40 respondents which 20 members of each class. For the experimental,

assemble with survey but making the comparison between two classes. Generally,

samples are the subject for the population also the way to collect data and get the

exact information.

Gender 2 Amanah 2 Firdaus Num.

Boys 8 9 17

Girls 12 11 23

Total 20 20 40

Table 1

Instruments

In this study, the relevant instrument that researcher need to use is

questionnaire. It purposely to seek the hypothesis and effectiveness of teaching and

learning of wood carving in order to reconstruct the student enthusiasm to learn

Visual Art Education. This instrument involves the teacher and students in which

related with interview and survey.

The questionnaire for the students divided to two sections which are :
 i. Section A : The Self-Demographic Profile

This sections consist the student profile such as gender, age and

address.

ii. Section B : Students’ perception towards of wood carving.

This section is looking for students’ perception engaging that affect

towards students. It has 10 items in this section to evaluate the

effectiveness. It is being divided into 3 aspects:

a) Teaching and Learning

b) The students’ text book

c) The equipment and apparatus.

All of these items evaluated using this

1 = Disagree

2 = Mixed feeling

3 = Agree

4 = Strongly agree

The questionnaire for the teacher in interview is to know the best strategy in teaching

of visual art especially wood carving. The questionnaire will be provide estimated 15

questions to support the study and strongly information for the research. The

questions given are involved with SWOT analysis as example; what the strengths

and weaknesses in teaching, what are the tactics to instill students learning the

visual art education, and how the teacher facilitate the students in process teaching

and learning.
Data Collection

The type of data that will be used in data analysis are thematic analysis for

qualitative approach and descriptive statistic for quantitative approach. This two

method able to provide the exact answer for the research.

Thematic analysis is acquired from the questionnaire and needs some

process to get the result. The process that involved, firstly collect the data which is

questionnaire, next coding the data and continue with code validation, finally the

framework identification. The questions that are given from the researcher to the

teacher devoted the strategies in teaching wood carving also nurturing the students’

interest towards visual art education

The quantitative approach which using descriptive statistic lead to summarize

the data throughout the respondents utilize the survey questionnaire. To conclude

the data, researcher take the sample from two classes with different level classes as

the population in the study and make a total. Hence, this technique is propose to find

out the perceptions of the students towards wood carving.

Data Analysis

The data was acquired through the research’s instruments that were

questionnaire. For the qualitative, this study will use thematic analysis starting with

collect data through the face to face interview and ended with framework

identification. The quantitative approach will utilize with descriptive statistic in collect
the data through the survey and the data will be process and transfer to the

percentage or chart.