Empirical Study of Meteorological Course Effectiveness in Malaysian

Meteorological Department (Azahani, 2012)

byJah Salmihani Mansor

7 – 11 September 2015Seoul, Korea

PROBLEM STATEMENTPROBLEM STATEMENT

Research will be conduct to find out:-

i.Is there any individual factor affecting the efficacy of Meteorological Courses?

ii.Is there an environmental factor influencing the efficacy of Meteorological Course? and

iii.Is there any trainers factors affecting the efficacy of Meteorological Course?

OBJECTIVESOBJECTIVES

Objectives of the study are as follows:

(i) Specifies weather individual, environmental or trainers will effect the effectiveness of Meteorological Course?

(ii) Determine weather individual, environment or trainers contribute the major factors in effectiveness of Meteorological Course?

SCOPESCOPE

Identifies the relationship between the individual, environment factors and trainers factors with the basic Meteorology course

Meteorological officer from 1997 to 2010

LITERATURE REVIEWLITERATURE REVIEW

Based on earlier studies:Based on earlier studies:

All three elements of the individual factors, All three elements of the individual factors, environment and trainers greatly influences the environment and trainers greatly influences the efficacy of training (Baldwin Ford, 1998; Chiaburu efficacy of training (Baldwin Ford, 1998; Chiaburu Tekleab, 2005;Kirkpatrick,1976;Schuller, 1983)Tekleab, 2005;Kirkpatrick,1976;Schuller, 1983)

Efficacy of training is also influenced by the Efficacy of training is also influenced by the content of the exercise (Peterson, content of the exercise (Peterson, 1990;Coffman,1987) but it is not relevant to be 1990;Coffman,1987) but it is not relevant to be one of the factors in this study because of the one of the factors in this study because of the content of this training has been determined by content of this training has been determined by the WMOthe WMO

THEORITICAL FRAMEWORKTHEORITICAL FRAMEWORK

Environment Training Effectiveness

IV DV

H

Individual

Trainers

HYPOTHESISHYPOTHESIS

Hypotheses being tested are as follows:Hypotheses being tested are as follows:

H0: No relationship between individual factors with H0: No relationship between individual factors with the efficacy of meteorological course.the efficacy of meteorological course.

H0: No relationship between environment factor H0: No relationship between environment factor with the efficacy of meteorological course.with the efficacy of meteorological course.

H0: No relationship between trainers factor with the H0: No relationship between trainers factor with the efficacy of meteorological course.efficacy of meteorological course.

SAMPLINGSAMPLING

The respondent is a meteorological Officer – who has ever attended a Basic course in Meteorology from 1997 to 2010

Sampling used is simple random

Questionaire sending

By mail- if there are not in headquarters

By hand – if there are in headquarters in Petaling Jaya

Based on (Krejcie Morgan, 1971), the sample size should be127, but the feedback is 105

RESEARCH INSTRUMENT AND RESEARCH INSTRUMENT AND

PILOT TESTPILOT TEST

Questionaire was adapt from:

Section A,C andD – Herbert Marsh

Section B and E – Thayer dan Teachout, 1995

Used Lickert Scale 1-5

Pilot test to 30 respondents

To verify the validity of the questionaire analysis factor are used.

FINDINGSFINDINGS

From this research, trainers is the major factors contribute in effectiveness of Meteorological Course. So, action should be taken to ensure the effectiveness of this course will enhance.

Here are some of the suggestion to the department:-i. Appointing qualified trainers with priority to the masters or PHD holders or the experienced officers in the field related to the module or subject course meet the effectiveness of the training.

DISCUSSIONSDISCUSSIONS

ii.Lecturers from World Meteorological Organizations (WMO) also greatly helped to improve the quality of teaching and learning

iii.Monitor the achievements of participants after the course

DISCUSSIONSDISCUSSIONS

DISCUSSIONDISCUSSION

iv.Promote training through hands on, case studies and seminars, in which case it can attract the interest of participants

v.The content of training programs can be strenghten by emphasis to the cognitive aspects (new knowledge), emotion (feelings of control) and psychomotor

CONCLUSIONCONCLUSION

Overall, this study successfully achieved the objectives. The findings of the study are based on the situation during the review was carried out and is expected to be used the invention for the sake of improvement of coming Basic Meteorology Course