1. GROUP 1: FACTORS AFFECTING ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE DURING PRE-CLINICAL AND CLINICAL YEARS: AUDIOLOGY AND SPEECH SCIENCES STUDENTS Members: Chee Khai ChingA123220Speech /3 Lim Ya QinA123889Speech/3 Goh Choon MayA123480Audio/3 Nurzila bt. OmarA122865Audio/3 Sakinah Che RossA124136Audio/3 Fatimah Sh. MohdA124189Speech/3 Tan Mon PingA123543Speech/3 Siti Sarah Omar Mohd AzamA123703Audio/3

2. INTRODUCTION There are internal and external factors that can affect the academic performance of the students during pre- clinical and clinical years. Researcher found that students who attend classes regularly obtained greater CGPA compared to those who absent from class. This is supported by the Marburger (2001) who concluded that students who missed class on a given date were significantly more likely to respond incorrectly to questions which are in relation to material covered that day than were students who were present.

3. Students who are actively engage in learning process are observed to have greater CGPA (Ali et al., 2009). According to Sansgiry and Sail, (2006), strategies of studying can contribute to the academic performance of the students. According to Mouzan et al. (1991), the older students poor performance were generally affected to financial problems and family responsibilities which may cause major stress or tension that affect academic performances.

4. RESEARCH QUESTIONS Is there any difference between the factors affecting academic performance during pre-clinical and clinical years of Audiology and Speech Sciences students? Is there any difference between academic performance during pre-clinical and clinical years of Audiology and Speech Sciences students ?

5. H YPOTHESIS There is a difference between the factors affecting academic performance during pre-clinical and clinical years of Audiology and Speech Sciences students. There is a difference between academic performance during pre-clinical and clinical years of Audiology and Speech Sciences students

6. G ENERAL O BJECTIVE 1. To determine the factor that affects the academic performance most during pre-clinical and clinical years of Audiology and Speech Sciences students. S PECIFIC O BJECTIVES 1. To compare academic performance during pre- clinical and clinical years of Audiology and Speech Sciences students 2. To compare factors that affecting academic performance during pre-clinical and clinical years of Audiology and Speech Sciences students

7. METHODOLOGY Study design  Retrospective cohort study  Questionnaires are distributed to the selected undergraduates from Audiology and Speech Sciences Department. o Target population  All students from Audiology and Speech Sciences Department in National University Malaysia (UKM).

8. METHODOLOGY Sampling method:  Purposive sampling o Sampling frame: Name list of all third year and fourth year Audiology and Speech Sciences students which can be obtained from Audiology and Speech Sciences Department. Sample unit  A student either third year or fourth year from Audiology and Speech Sciences Department

9. METHODOLOGY Sample size: Total subject: 45 students.(20: third year students, 25 students from fourth year students) n 0 =Z 2 p(1-p)/e 2 = (1.645 2 )(0.5)(0.5)/(0.1 2 ) = 67 n= n 0 /1+ [(n 0 -1)/N] =67/1+[(67-1)/139] = 45 N=amount of total population Z= Z-score p=estimated proportion of an attribute that is present in the population e= confidence interval

10. Inclusion criteria: All the third year and fourth year Audiology and Speech Sciences Students Exclusion criteria: Audiology and Speech Sciences students who withdraw from the courses. Data Collection - The questionnaire will be distributed and it will be collected on the same week.

11. V ARIABLES Independent variables: Factors that affecting academic performance (Stress, time management, class attendance and learning style) Dependent variables: Academic performance of Audiology and Speech Sciences students during pre-clinical and clinical years.

12. C ONCEPTUAL F RAMEWORK Academic performance of pre-clinical years will be defined as average of Purata Nilai Gred Semester (PNGS) from first year until second year first semester. Academic performance of clinical years will be defined as average of PNGS from second year second semester until third year first semester.

13. 20102011 DecemberJanuary February Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7 Week 8 First Discussion : Outline of the research (Introduction, research question, objective, methodology and Gantt Chart) Survey and literature review Second Discussion : Draft proposal Submit draft proposal to Pn Haniza Preparation in refining the proposal and presentation slides Presentation of the proposal

14. 2011 FebruaryMarch Week 8Week 9Week 10Week 11Week 12 Week 13Week 14 Presentation of the proposal and questionnaires 3rd Discussion : Develop Questionnaires and conduct pilot study  Distribution of questionnaire to subjects  Data collection 4th Discussion : Analysis of data using SPSS 5th Discussion : Interpretation of results  Writing reports  Compilation of reports  Proof- reading of the reports  Submission of reports