BIOSTATISTICBIOSTATISTICBIOMEDIC GROUP 5 BIOMEDIC GROUP 5

1. NG KHEN ENG A126870

2. SHERLYN LIM CHAI YUN A130376

3. NUR SAZWANA BINTI AHAMAD A127288

4. ROS MARISSA BINTI ROSLI A127643

5. WAFA’ BINTI ZAHARI A127527

6. OOVASI D/O SAMYNAZAN A126710

7. SYAFINAZ BINTI CHE OMAR A 127457

8. CHUA TEONG TEE A126857

9. SITI NURFARHANA BINTI SABIREEN

A127606

10. ANG WAN YONG A130464

11. SYAFIQ BIN RAHMAT A122576

13. LEE JIAN SIAN A130411

Title Title Possession of the transferrable

skills on employability among first year undergraduates of FSK, FFAR, and FGG of UKM.

INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION

IntroductionIntroductionWhat is transferable skills?What is transferable skills?What is the importance in What is the importance in

employability?employability?

• Known as key skills, generic skills, core skills, soft skills or so on

• Skills which are required in almost any job (Stewart et al. 2000)

• There are groups of skills requirements for employability such as communication skills, team working, problem-solving skills, leadership qualities and interpersonal skills. (Petrova 2001)

Transferable skills have a higher rank when hiring fresh university graduates as compared to academic background, proficiency in the English language, performance in interview, adaptability to company culture and experience of internship. (Ranjit & Wahab 2008).

Research JustificationResearch JustificationTo evaluate the possession of transferable skills

on employability among students in UKM.Graduate employers seek a range of

transferable skills and qualities that students need to be able to demonstrate in selection processes (CAES, 1997; Harvey et al., 1997; Williams and Owen, 1997)

Most of the employers now are expecting students to possess the transferable skills rather than results with flying colours.

Reveal that whether third year students in UKM KL is competent enough in terms of employability.

RESEARCH QUESTIONRESEARCH QUESTION Is there any difference in the possession of transferrable

skills among third year undergraduate students from the Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty of Dental and Faculty of Pharmacy in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)?

GENERAL OBJECTIVEGENERAL OBJECTIVE

• To study the possession of transferrable skills among the third year undergraduate students from Faculty of Health Sciences (FSK), Faculty of Dental (FGG) and Faculty of Pharmacy (FFAR) in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Campus Kuala Lumpur.

Specific ObjectivesSpecific ObjectivesTo explore the possession of transferrable skills for

employability among the 3rd year undergraduate students of FSK,FGG and FFAR.

To get to know wether the 3rd undergraduate students know what transferrable skills are all about.

To educate the 3rd year students the importance of transferrable skills for employability

To compare the possession of transferrable skills among the 3rd year undergraduate students of FSK,FGG and FFAR.

To see the relationship of transferrable skills in employability

Research HypothesisResearch HypothesisHo : The possession of transferrable skills among 3rd

year undergraduate students of FSK, FGG and FFAR were not different

Ho : µ1=µ2=µ3

HA: The possession of transferrable skills among 3rd year undergraduate students of FSK, FGG and FFAR were different

Employability of Graduates

Hint:StrongWeakUncertai

n

Gender

Race

Professors Addressing

Skills in ClassFaculty

Conceptual frameworkConceptual framework

Extracurricular activities Working Ex

perience

Possession of Transferable skills

materials and materials and methodsmethods

Materials and MethodMaterials and MethodDemographic Profile• Name• Age • Gender: Male and Female• Race: Malay, Chinese, India, and other• Faculty: Dentistry, Pharmacy, Health Science• Program: Biomedical Science, Nutrition,

Environmental Health and Optometry• Working experience: duration• Involvement of co-curriculum activities

Duration of study• Two weeks for data collection• Questionnaires are distributed among third year

students • Proportional sampling method• Simple random sampling method• Two week for data analysis.• Descriptive statistics • Statistical analysis• Two week for writing report• Result recorded

Study PopulationStudy Population

Third year undergraduates from:

- Faculty of Health Science:

- Biomedical Science

- Optometry

- Environmental Health

- Nutrition

- Faculty of Dentistry

- Faculty of Pharmacy

Sampling methodSampling methodProportional random sampling method

Inclusion / exclusion factorsInclusion / exclusion factors Inclusive criteria: - Third year undergraduates from courses of Faculty of

Health Sciences: i. Biomedical Science ii. Nutrition iii.Optometry

iv.Environmental Health Science

-Third year undergraduates from Faculty of Dentistry -Third year undergraduates from Faculty of Pharmacy 

Exclusive criteriaThird year undergraduates of : Biomedical Science students from Biostatistic

Group 5Occupational TherapyDiagnostic Imaging and RadiotherapySpeech TherapyAudiologyForensic SciencePhysiotherapyDietetic

Sample Size CalculationSample Size CalculationFormula used to calculate sample size for selected

population with known population size :

We estimate there will be 10% drop out of the questionnaire. Hence, 10% is added to the sample size of 170

Thus, a total of 187 persons will be chosen for our study from third year undergraduates of Faculty of Health Science, Faculty of Dentistry and Faculty of Pharmacy

Sample Size for Each PopulationSample Size for Each Population

Dummy Table QuestionnaireDummy Table Questionnaire

Gantt chartGantt chart

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