TY  - JOUR
T1  - Application of Rasch Model Analysis in Calibrating Undergraduate
Challenges at Malaysian Universities
AU - Khairani, Ahmad Zamri AU - Matore, Mohd Effendi Ewan Mohd AU - Rahman, Madina Abdul 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 12
IS  - 7
SP  - 1151
EP  - 1156
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2017.1151.1156
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2017.1151.1156
KW  - social
KW  -Rasch model
KW  -personal
KW  -infrastructure
KW  -Academic
KW  -university challenges
AB  - The purpose of this study is to calibrate the challenges faced by undergraduates in Malaysian universities. The challenges are divided into four aspects, namely, academics, personal, social and career as well as the infrastructural needs of universities. A total of 360 undergraduates from 2 local public universities participated in this study. Responses from the 30 items questionnaire were calibrated using the Rasch model analysis so as to determine the most important challenges and how different these challenges are from each other. The undergraduates agreed that internet connection is the most important challenge (measure = -1.99 logit), followed by the quest for academic excellence (mean = -1.24 logits) and missing their family back home (mean = -1.18 logits). Based on the equal interval scale of the Rasch model calibration, this study obtained the following information: internet connection (measure = -1.99 logit) is about 2 times more important than the challenge to secure job after graduation (measure = -1.02 logit). In contrast, securing job after graduation is 2 times more important than challenges related to transport system (mean = -01.51 logits).
ER  -