CRITICAL ASSIGNMENT 1

Date: 8/12/2014 (Monday)

Venue for: IC Gate International Conference (Auditorium)
Topic of keynote speaker: Gifted and Talented Student.
Keynote speaker: Datin Seri Paduka Rosmah Mansor, Patron of
PERMATA programme and wife of Malaysia Prime Minister.
She started her speak with purpose of this conference. This conference
held for celebrate diversity in giftedness and talk about DNA molecule.
Forum and roundtable discussion also release celebrating among people.
Prof Dr Gamin said gifted people are 10% population in physical domain.
Each 1/1000 peoples has gifted characteristics, while 1/10000 has twice
exceptional gifted and 1/100000 has extreme gifted.
Multi-intelligence concept which covered by John Hopkin University where
include logical reasoning, intrapersonal and so on). Every gifted and
talented students developed skill in one more area. Some of them able to
solve mathematics/writing book/musical. All of that is to perform highly
intellectual among gifted student. Furthermore, some of them also have
strong performed art to solve math. A book which published on 2009 said
those who have highly perform on art and musical, they are normally able
solve high level mathematics.
PERMATA Negara programme (one of branch PERMATA) thus developed
based on that book to provide early education and no left child behind.
PERMATA Negara programme is kindergarten school age 4-5 years old and
covered from urban/rural children.
She hopes all of audiences who dont know about PERMATA programme
understand and not pretend by alternative media. She thinks that idea for
peoples/rakyat, for future and for country mostly.
One of the previous research showed art are good to develop brain skill to
think for come out the solutions. Gifted students have maturity to
participate any area of skill. Each of them also have differentiated of learn
in the class. Without learn our life (gifted student) likely to be in the dark
place.
In conclusion, she hoped giftedness are through learning program and
able adapt to create something that finally our country developed where
reach at maximum level.

CRITICAL ASSIGNMENT 2
Date: 9/12/2014 (Tuesday)
Venue for: IC Gate International Conference Parallel Session 4
(Auditorium)
Topic of presentation: Identifying Leadership Characteristic
among Gifted and Talented Students
Presenter: Rorlinda Yusof, Azizah Mohd Zahidi, Noriah Ishak,
Mohd Hakimie Zainuddin & Abu Yazid Abu Bakar.
As an introduction, leadership refers to the ability to influence, motivate
and help others to contribute to the effectiveness and success of an
organisation that is accompanied. Community needs a role models and a
willing individual to take the leadership responsibilities in future. Past
studies shown that efforts to identify and develop leadership qualities of
Gifted and Talented Students (GTS) are becoming increasingly important
(Bisland 2004, Kame and Stephens 1999). GTSs were seen as having the
ability to be a great leader for their leadership qualities and the ability to
lead and motivate other students around them (Karne and Stephens
1999). Leadership is a must for children who are gifted and talented
(Roberts 2012).
Characteristics of leadership skills:
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Handling groups
Encouraging and motivating others.
Solving problems.
Using effective communication skills
Identifying opportunity in a relationship.
Flexible in thoughts and actions, understanding concepts of
ambiguity.
7. Have the ability to assess how groups achieve their goals.
(Bisland 2004, Karnes & Bean 1990).
Past research has also linked GTS with emotion management, competent
intelligence and creative & critical in problem-solving (Chan David 2000,
Karnes & Bean 1996). A few of features that act as a catalyst in
generating GTSs leadership qualities include desire to be challenge,
resilient in problem solving and the courage to express views verbally.
Reversely, GTS faced issues that can hinder the leadership potentials

development is low motivation, lack of confidence, depressed due to high

expectation and high self-criticism.

We continue to talk about research questions:

1. What is the overall leadership characteristic profile at
PERMATApintar Nation Gifted Centre UKM?
2. What are the leadership characteristic of the Gifted and Talented
Students at the PERMATApintar National gifted centre UKM?
One of the methodology that they done was questionnaire distribute
towards PERMATApintar student and ASASIpintar student and also by
observing. Questionnaire constructed based on 14 leadership
characteristic: Leadership Efficacy, work relationship, leadership
motivation, influence competency, leadership behaviour, trustworthiness,
collegiality, cohesion, self-esteem, spiritual ethics, emotional intelligence,
self-montioring, visionary and transformational.
Final result showed overall trustworthiness, visionary, leadership
motivation and leadership efficacy among PERMATApintar student is
higher (more than average mean = 4.02) compared other leadership
characteristic. According final result for sex, race and group,
1. Sex Majority of females have more characteristics in leadership
than majority of males.
2. Race Chinese and others race students have more characteristics
in leadership than Malay and Indian students.
3. Pre U (ASASIpintar student) and High School student have nearly
same high leadership.

CRITICAL ASSIGNMENT 3
Date: 10/12/2014 (Wednesday)
Venue for: IC Gate International Conference (Auditorium)
Topic of keynote speaker: Special Education for Nurturing Talents
of Nobel Laurates Standard in Muslim Communities: Applying the
Islamic Perspective.
Keynote speaker: Tan Sri M.Kamal Hassan.
His research is more on Muslim community. What he highlighted on
fundamental philosophical and theoretical framework for special
education (for gifted and talented children and Students) from the Islamic
perspective is:
1. Differences between the secular humanistic worldview and the
Quranic worldview regarding God, man, universe, nature and life.
2. Differences between the philosophy of Islamic education and
epistemology and the modern Western philosophies of education
and epistemologies. The holistic vision of education is to be
understood in the concepts of knowledge, scholars and those who
possess sound intellects.
3. Islamic civilization, which was built upon the unified foundation of
faith in absolute rational knowledge and divinely revealed ethics,
had produced many gifted and talented scientists, mathematicians,
astronomers and so on.
4. The deepening and worsening crises of the secular humanistic
civilization in the economic, environmental, cultural and educational
dimensions signal the need for the integrated epistemology,
cosmology and etc. which reunite human reason with Divine
Revelation; human knowledge and wisdom and transcendent moral
values; the rational man and his spiritual essence, worldly existence
and means with trans-worldly existence and means with transworldly ends and moral objectives.
5. The universe and Nature from the Worldview of the Quran.

6. True purpose and meaning of human existence in the Worldview of

the Quran.
7. Quran provides a holistic epistemology which integrates human
reason with Divine Revelation.
8. Characteristics of People who possess sound intellects (Ulul alAlbab).
9. Obligation for human beings, particularly gifted and talented
scholars and scientists, to practice the principle of gratitude to Allah
the Most Gracious.
10.
Motivation and inspiration from the pioneering works of Great
Muslim Scientists before the emergence of European Renaissance as
revealed by Robert Briffault, Will Durant and George Sarton.
11.
Motivation from the need to solve the crises of modern
science and the environment.
12.
Motivation and inspiration from the self-critical and thought
provoking analysis of Prince Charles.
In conclusion, these skills such as critical thinking and leadership even
when benchmarked with Nobelist standards should not be separated
from the Muslim faith in the living and compassionate sustained of
planet Earth and the religious conviction that Muslim scientists,
technologists and experts are accountable to Him in the way they use
their talents, knowledge and skills.

CRITICAL ASSIGNMENT 4
Date: 4/12/2014 (Thursday)
Venue for: University Research Success Exhibition (DECTAR, UKM)
Booth topic visited: Hydrogen Cell Fuel Model UKM Cell Fuel
Institute.
Fuel Cell Institute was established in July 2006. It is the first fuel cell
research institute in Malaysia. Objective to be achieved in this research is
to:
1. To run a program of research, development and demonstration
projects to produce indigenous fuel cell technology.
2. To plan fuel cell industry development strategy of the country
through the provision of governance instruments, including national
policies, laws and resource management.
3. To become a focal point for the development of the country's
indigenous fuel cell technology.
4. To be a technology incubator centre for fuel cell industry of country.
5. To produce skilled human resources in the field of fuel cells to
support national fuel cell industry.
Vision - Be a reference centre of hydrogen and fuel cell technology, worldclass energy management policy.
Fuel cell process is including also solar hydrogen, fuel processing, fuel cell
bio, hydrogen bio, solid oxide fuel cells, materials and manufacturing fuel
cell plates and electrochemical processes.
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles UKM are environmentally friendly and
sustainable vehicle that uses hydrogen fuel cells, a technology reflected
the zero and clean.

Electric power from hydrogen fuel cells generated directly from the
electrochemical reaction between hydrogen gas and oxygen in the air
without combustion. This process also produces water and heat.
Fuel Cell Institute UKM has developed a fuel cell hydrogen vehicles using
golf as a prototype car. Six Lead-Acid battery used in golf carts have been
replaced with Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells powerful 3kW which
was designed and built by the Institute of Fuel Cells UKM.

Among the advantages of this vehicle is:

1. Hydrogen can be produced from a variety of primary energy
sources.
2. Does not produce carbon dioxide and other waste gases during
operation.
3. Do not release the sound.
4. Fuel cell system 75% lighter than the battery system.
5. Higher energy efficiency.