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THE DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS ON HALAL AWARENESS AMONG MALAYSIAN POLYTECHNIC STUDENTS: CASE STUDY IN
POLITEKNIK TUANKU SYED SIRAJUDDIN, PERLIS
Bustamam Bonari1 Saiful Mohamed Shuib2 Norul Huda Abdul Razak3
1 Politeknik Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, Perlis, Malaysia (e-mail: [email protected])
2 Politeknik Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, Perlis, Malaysia (e-mail: [email protected])
3 Politeknik Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, Perlis, Malaysia (e-mail: [email protected]) How to cite:
Bonari, B., Mohamed Shuib, S., & Abdul Razak, N.H. (2023). The descriptive analysis on halal awareness among Malaysian polytechnic students: case study in Politeknik Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, Perlis. International Journal of Education, Islamic Studies and Social Sciences Research, 8(1), 35-41.
Received: 31/03/2023 Revised: 26/05/2023 Accepted: 10/06/2023 Published: 26/06/2023
ABSTRACT
The `Yalal Halal` game board is one of the teaching aid tools with the concept of halal concept element consisting of food, logistic, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic. Most students do not focus on learning in the classroom.
Meanwhile, `Yalal Halal PRO` game board is one of the mediums that can be used as a tool to help trainers teach students in the classroom more interestingly. An interactive component like QR codes is one of the game's features. The objective of this study is to examine the level of halal awareness and student achievement by using the `Yalal Halal PRO` Game Board in learning institutions. Teaching by using gaming board manager were aiming to create two –way communication between lecturers and students. The study was conducted using quantitative methods and has been evaluated by using the questionnaire technique. The respondents' elective at Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Polytechnic was 231 students and we have selected 145 as a sample. The results showed that 40% of male respondents while 60% were female respondents. Most of the respondents were satisfied with the implementation of `Yalal Halal PRO` Game board because the teaching aids are easy to use. This is proved by the value of mean of the student’s halal awareness level in the at a good level of 0.86 and above. On the other hand, the achievement of students is at a good level of mean score 0.60 and above for items in the questionnaire.
Therefore, some suggestions for improvements are proposed in this study to improve the level of student halal awareness and academic achievement in polytechnic for the future.
Keywords: Yallal Halal Game board, Halal awareness, Student achievement.
ABSTRAK
Papan permainan `Yalal Halal` merupakan alat bantuan mengajar yang menggunakan konsep elemen yang meliputi makanan, pengangkutan, farmasi dan kosmetik. Kebanyakan pelajar tidak fokus terhadap sesi pengajaran dan pembelajaran di dalam kelas. Manakala , permainan `Yalal Halal` merupakan medium yang boleh digunakan bagi aktiviti sesi pembelajaran lebih menyeronokkan di dalam dan luar bilik kuliah. Objektif bagi kajian ini adalah untuk mengenal pasti tahap kesedaran halal dan juga pencapaian pelajar yang pengambilan kursus bagi program pengajian diploma. Kajian ini dilaksanakan dengan kaedah kuantitatif dan menggunakan teknik soal selidik kepada responden. Sejumlah 231 jumlah populasi orang pelajar Politeknik Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, Perlis dan seramai 145 orang pelajar sebagai sampel. Hasil kajian menunjukkan 40 %
ialah responden lelaki manakala 60 peratus ialah wanita. Kebanyakan responden bersetuju dengan perlaksanaan permainan `Yalal Halal` kerana ia adalah mudah daripada segi penggunaannya. Ini disokong dengan nilai skor min bagi kesedaran halal adalah 0.86 ke atas. Manakala nilai skor min bagi pencapaian pelajar adalah 0.60 ke atas. Oleh itu, beberapa cadangan penambahbaikan dicadangkan bagi menambah tahap kesedaran halal dan pencapaian pelajar politeknik secara amnya pada masa hadapan.
Kata Kunci: Permainan Yalal Halal, Kesedaran halal, Pencapaian pelajar.
INTRODUCTION
Consumers, especially Muslims, tend to use halal products including food products, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals. Therefore, there is an agency that regulates the production and commercial use of the product. In Malaysia, the activities of controlling, monitoring, and regulating halal good products sold in Malaysia and the export market are under the supervision of Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (JAKIM 2010). Malaysian society is less aware of the issue of halal awareness today than in the past and is less knowledgeable about it. This could be a significant setback as Malaysia is now on its way to becoming a halal hub. As a result, over the past few years, there has been much discussion about Malaysia's efforts to become a halal hub. According to the Third Industrial Master Plan (IMP3), the Malaysian government will have several years to make the halal hub a reality. Although the government's initiative to increase the awareness of Muslim consumers about what they eat in terms of complying with halal and sharia requirements has been carried out since 2006, there is still a lot of work to be done (Abdul Raufu et al,.2012). Problems may arise in the conditions detailed in this section. Consequently, according to Zakaria (2017), as a Muslim, you must ensure that everything you do, touch, and eat, including your food and drink, is legal because otherwise, you risk not fulfilling your religious obligations.
In addition, buying is one of the actions of making an exchange to get a desired item using money. In this era of globalization, people are very fond of buying or shopping either online or face to face.
Nowadays, there are many products produced regardless of the form of goods or food, so we need to distinguish between halal and haram (Tengku Akbar, John Jackson Ireland, 2012). In this context, people need to focus on halal issues when making purchases regardless of whether they buy online or face-to-face. In this regard, people may be sensitive in the selection of halal food, but they do not emphasize it so much in items such as skin care, medicines, and or daily products. Therefore, consumers need to be careful in choosing halal goods as a Muslim, even though this shopping practice can contribute to the country's income.
From a previous study, (Clarissa 2014) board games are one of the ways that can be applied in the field of education to create fun for students in addition to learning while playing. Besides that, the advantages of board games are also many, they can move actively, cooperate, and form a high sense of sociality.
In this game, students are invited to be active and cooperate with their groups and arouse the spirit of learning. Rewards and punishments make students understand what is wrong and right and motivate them to learn more. Furthermore, based on Yunianta (2018) board game media is stated to be valid and practical with a percentage of results of 90% and 85% in the excellent category. The results of student feedback stated that 96.5% chose the category of very good or very practical to use. The design of this study is a pre-experimental design. This type of research uses a single-shot case study. The data collected covers media validation, teaching tools, implementation of learning studies, student responses and learning outcomes (Surya Kunanta, 2017). The conclusion of this study states that the media developed for board games is valid, practical, and effective for the learning process, especially for first high school students about numerical materials.
Meanwhile, platforms such as board games are one of the useful tools in teaching and learning inside and outside the classroom. This is because it can have a positive impact on society, especially among students to understand and increase knowledge more quickly and easily. (Azman Ab Rahman et al,
2018). According to Cook and Olson (2006) board games are also an important tool to provide direct skills and knowledge development for people in all subjects, as well as being very useful, effective, and fun for all ages. In general, gamification is the game element of the implementation process in a non- game subject, which aims to make it more interesting and fun for everyone. Gamification in the field of education can be understood as a process of applying game elements in imparting knowledge and providing a strong memory when playing. The terminology of gamification was first coined in 2002 by the British game creator, Nick Pelling and it was widely used in 2010 (Kamasheva, 2015).
According to Darvina (2003), the use of media as a tool can not only attract students' interest to follow the teaching and learning process better but can also help improve student understanding and make it easier for educators to convey knowledge. Teaching using the game board successfully creates two- way communication between the lecturer and the students in other words, the game board helps to produce an active response from the students instead of just a passive response. By creating the innovation of this game board, hopefully the awareness and knowledge of the Malaysian community about halal will increase.
Nowadays, nearly everyone lacks understanding and knowledge about halal. These problems arise because of the shortage of halal-friendly mediums. There are several teaching tools that discuss about Halal (Muhammad Nusran, et al,.2018). However, they are not fun and can draw people’s attention.
Due to the free lifestyle, everyone tends to take it lightly about halal awareness. They also are lack of understanding on it or the importance of halal towards Muslim. These problems arise because of the shortage of halal-friendly mediums. Even though we can still find several teaching tools that discuss halal. But knowing halal tends to make people lost interest to play or know about it. On a contrary, using a gameboard can help other people understand halal because playing with others makes the game more entertaining. Additionally, by creating Yalla Halal game board, we can utilise it as a medium of instruction in the classroom to help students understand more about halal (Imran Aslan, Hakiye Aslan, 2016).
As the conclusion gaming learning method needed to be apply in today learning process to make students feel entertain while studying in class. Studies also show that students more likely to gain knowledge and memorised information easier in classes if the information were given in diagram or games method.
Students will easily get bored, and loss focus during lecturers which only depends on writing. By using gaming learning method, children at the age of 4 years old are also able to play and learn something by participating themselves in playing games during their early learning process. Next, by applying gaming learning methods we can uncover hidden talent in student inner self such as help to expand their creativity.
The objectives of the study include:
a) To develop an innovation game board “Yalla Halal'' on halal awareness for student and halal consumer.
b) To examine the level of student achievement and halal awareness on Halal subject using Yalla Halal gameboard at Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Polytechnic
LITERATURE REVIEW Board Game
Board games are an important tool to provide hands-on and heads-on skill and knowledge development for people of all ages on all subjects. Not only do well-designed games create an engaging atmosphere, but they also provide a nonthreatening, playful, yet competitive environment in which to focus on content and reinforce and apply learning (Treher, 2011). Mistakes are useful and point out what we need to learn. The board itself provides a visual metaphor to help connect information. Game elements,
discussions, and problem solving with fellow team members about the content are vehicles for learning.
Subtle redundancy to reinforce learning and ensure retention should be incorporated into the game design. Good questions, problems to solve, and situations to consider allow players to think through and apply what they learn. It is deliberate intervention that involves the planning and implementation of instructional activities and teaching experience to meet intended leaner outcomes according to teaching plan it can be defined as the relatively permanent change in an individual behaviour (knowledge skill and learning attitude). The use of the card game to promote game-based learning also enhanced learning motivation and learning effectiveness (Yien, 2011).
In this era, game board is one of the many devices designed to help students understand a lesson concept or subject. In addition, students can learn some techniques in remembering and developing concepts while at the same time achieving the fun of playing board games (Ramil F Bolivar, 2012). By combining game elements in education, it can improve academic achievement by creating an environment where they can participate directly (Kim et al,.2019). Moreover, the current products on the market such as Monopoly and Global Halal Game have a similar shape but different ways of playing and learning concepts. So, to create a difference from others, Yalla Halal gameboard is built to help people or students about halal awareness.
In addition, gamification is used encourage the learner to participate in a competitive activity, to encourage engagement and desire to learn. In the Radiographic Practice module, students learn three core radiography performance standards; professionalism, technique and clinical performance. To address these standards, a pilot radiography board game was developed to determine its effectiveness at improving engagement and interest with learning material and its use as a teaching and learning tool. A qualitative, explorative descriptive research design was used, involving focus group interviews with the radiography students. The students recommended some changes and adjustments on the game design and dynamics. They further described the board game as a fun activity and demonstrated that it was possible to learn whilst engaging with the subject material and group discussions. The board game enabled the students to apply critical thinking skills and be introduced the concept of professionalism in the clinical setting (Burahma 2015).
Halal Food
According to the Gordon Food service, (2022) halal food is halal and allowed to be eaten by those who adhere to the teachings of Islam. Muslims are not allowed to consume food or drink that is haram, or haram. Food that contains the halal symbol on its packaging has been approved by the agency and certified free of any prohibited components or ingredients. Halal claims on nutrition labels or packaging must include the name of the certification body. Nowadays, halal is not only related to religion, but also business and trade (Saniatun Nurhasah,.2017). In addition, consumer awareness about product halal, brand image, food safety, halal certificate, halal marketing all influences the intention to buy halal food products to eat (Agus Purwanto, Yuli Sudargini, 2021).
Logistics
From the previous study, Logistics plays an important role in protecting the Halal status of any product through proper transportation, storage, and handling in the supply chain, until it reaches its destination (Tieman, 2006). The main success of the Halal industry depends a lot on the ability of logistics service management to ensure the integrity of Halal products (Mohd Iskandar Ilyas Tan et al,.2012). Azzam &
Abdullah (2020) highlighted that the integrity of the entire halal supply chain is a very important component for the halal industry to maintain effective control of the halal supply chain which is more complex than traditional logistics operations. Certain Muslim markets around the world require different taste, packaging, distribution, and certification. Thus, adopting halal requirements in all aspects of the supply chain of this halal ecosystem becomes a necessity and offers new market opportunities (Sutan Emir Hidayat,.2022).
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This quantitative study was used an individual as a unit of analysis. Data was collected from the population of students at 1 polytechnic at Malaysia such as Polytechnic Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, Perlis using convenience sampling technique. Through this technique, the population of 145 students was grouped into strata which includes diploma program. As derived from Krejcie and Morgan (1970), a total of 231 students were made as sample size of the study. A set of questionnaires were used with 5 – points Likert scale to measure all variables distributes to the respondent. Descriptive analysis used in the questionnaire of this study is because the data used can be considered as a summary of the entire data set. It can also provide information directly and easily (Aalsh, 1990). Test also explains the respondents to the demographics of the respondents, the level of student satisfaction on the cafeteria service at Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Polytechnic, Perlis. In this research, we use to analyse the data is by using mean score table. Study findings were analysed using mean score table (Nunnally, 1994).
ANALYSIS AND RESULTS
145 questionnaires were distributed. From 145 respondents, students were female 98 (67.6%) and 47 were male student (32.4 %).
Table 1: Respondent’s profile by gender (N=40)
Gender Frequency Percent (%)
Male 47 32.40
Female 98 67.60
Total 145 100.00
Table 2: Analysis on the level of student achievement using Yalla Halal Gameboard
Student Achievement Mean Std. Deviation Level
Before playing this game board, my understanding in Halal course is not good.
3.8900 .80271 Medium high
This game makes me easy to understand about Halal. 4.2600 .59662 High I am interested by using this game board in learning
activities especially about Halal.
4.2600 .61332 High
This game board enhance my knowledge and make me interest to know about Halal.
4.2600 .56174 High
I understand very well about Halal Awareness. 4.1800 .57525 High The question given is not dense and easy to understand. 4.1200 .60769 High This game board is very fun to play and give me the
knowledge.
4.2500 .65713 High
From the Table 2 shows the analysis on the level of student achievement using game board at Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Polytechnic. For the items This game makes me easy to understand about Halal, I am interested by using this game board in learning activities especially about Halal, and This game board enhance my knowledge and make me interest to know about Halal score the highest level which the mean is 4.2600. Meanwhile, for I understand very well about Halal Awareness and the question given is not dense and easy to understand are 4.1800 and 4.1200. Then for this game board is very fun to play and give me the knowledge is 4.2500. Lastly, the item Before playing this game board, my understanding in Halal course is not good is medium high where the mean score is 3.8900.
CONCLUSION
From the data analysis, result of objective is to identify the level of student achievement in classroom.
Through, Hassan and Poopak (2012) and Salman (2001) found that gaming learning method can fasten the learning process and create a positive interaction environment among students, it is proven that game board can improve students’ achievement in classroom as it will make the learning process become more exciting.
Game boards can help students to learn more effectively because students are able to enjoy themselves during playing board games during learning process. Moreover, this game board can be participated and being involved by many players at once while studying with classmates. In addition, the game board can create a new atmosphere in the classroom to be more cheerful and entertaining. Next, students can study in groups with classmates. Students will be not easily bored by just listening to lecturers only, but with game board lecturers can create two-way communication between students and lecturers.
Thereby encouraging students to cultivate a healthy competitive spirit in the classroom, through group discussions. In addition, in this way polytechnics can improve students who are knowledgeable and think outside the box. In addition, lecturers play an important role in the development of potential students in the classroom and can sharpen the minds of students so that not only depend on the notes alone. With this game board it can be a platform for students to brainstorm and exchange ideas without limitation. Finally, this board game can attract students to review their lessons either directly or indirectly.
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