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Being an educational psychologist, my research area is on mediating (challenging yet supporting) and engaging learners’ learning processes, which include the learners themselves emancipating their knowledge and expanding their capacity to develop their thinking, habits of mind and ways of working. My academic background which display a multidiscipline areas of language studies and educational psychology, has also contributed to my knowledge about learning, literacy, gender issues and second language acquisition. I see myself actively involved in various multidisciplinary research projects which provide me with an array of invaluable experience when working with other colleagues within and outside of my university. Since 2007, I have been involved with five Fundamental Research Grants Scheme projects which include investigating the use of PBL for science in secondary schools, developing a module for teacher’s code of ethics, developing a facilitative model for rural preschool teachers and investigating innovative assessment methods at tertiary level. I am privileged to be involved in two policy studies funded by MOHE to investigate the impact of finishing school-like programmes in enhancing employability among graduates in Malaysia and to investigate Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) related programmes and initiatives in Malaysia. I have led a Knowledge Transfer Programme project to promote literacy through affective mediation via Edu-WebTV with Education Technology Department, Ministry of Education and subsequently becoming a member in three similar grants in promoting entrepreneurship to struggling high school students and promoting entrepreneurial simulation based training for skill trained learners among youth whilst involving in various research projects funded by the university. I led a project with AICB through an external grant to mediate the test and curriculum developers' concept of activating learning and aligning assessment.
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