Students with different characteristic have different way of communicating style and specific emotion based on the ways they are being raised up. There are 4 domains in emotional intelligence theory which are emotional awareness, emotional management, social emotional awareness and relationship management. Among the famous and common parenting styles include authoritative, authoritarian, permissive and neglectful parenting style. This study is a cross-sectional study to determine how parenting styles of Muslim gifted and talented students in Kolej GENIUS Insan, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM), Nilai, Negeri Sembilan affect their Emotional Intelligence. Two questionnaires will be used in this study. The first questionnaire is Parenting Authority Questionnaire (PAQ). The second questionnaire is Emotional Intelligence Self-Assessment. The data will be analysed by using Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20-32bit. This study is expected to expose the public to new knowledge and understanding of interrelationships between parenting style and its effect on emotional intelligence towards students.

Perfectionism is a personality trait characterised by the striving for flawlessness of a person and setting high standards of performance, accompanied by critical self-evaluations and concerns about the evaluations of others. There are three forms of perfectionism, which are socially prescribed perfectionists, self-oriented perfectionists and other-oriented perfectionists, explained by their Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale. Coping skills allow us to handle situations well and to feel mentally and physically better, which can impair our ability to do our best. There are two major forms of philosophy of coping skills that are problem-based coping and emotion-based coping. This study is a cross-sectional study to assess perfectionism in Kolej GENIUS Insan, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM), Nilai, Negeri Sembilan with coping skills for Muslim gifted and talented students. The first questionnaire is Perfectionism Self-Assesment and Coping Skills Questionnaire. Using Statistical Packages for Social Sciences ( SPSS ) version 20-32bit, the data will be analysed. This analysis is intended to bring the public to new insights and comprehension of the interrelationships between perfectionism and student coping skills.

The study aims to identify the correlation between intelligence with depression, anxiety, and stress. This research employs descriptive and inference study design involving a total of 131 students at PERMATA Insan College, USIM. The intelligence of the gifted students is measured by the scores obtained through an online test, PERMATApintar UKM2. Instrument used to measure the negative emotional states of mental health is Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21). The results of the study found that high level of intelligence was most dominant among gifted students. Whereas the level of stress and depression are in mild level, while anxiety is at a moderate level. The results showed that there was no significant difference between intelligence with the mental health issues. Implications of this study can help the gifted and talented students to seek for strategies to overcome the depression, anxiety, and stress faced by themselves. Thus, assist the gifted students in experiencing balanced social and emotional development. Researchers also suggest for future research to further study on the intelligence with depression, anxiety, and stress, especially among gifted and talented students. Future studies are also needed to understand other factors that may contribute towards the tendency to these mental health issues.

Gifted and Talented Student (GTS) refers to student with diverse potential and vary in term of their nature and abilities. Despite of privileges having multiple abilities, GTS often faces challenges in identifying and pursuing a career path that aligns with their diverse interests and abilities which referred to as multipotentiality. Various related studies have been conducted by previous researchers, both quantitatively and qualitatively, but less reference has been made to intervention studies on module development. Hence, this research is attended to develop a module in assisting GTS with their career decision. The basic foundation in developing this module are based on two theories namely Holland RIASEC Theory (1997) and Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligence (1999). The sample of this study consist of GTS from one of the Gifted High School in Negeri Sembilan. This study will adopt the design and development research (DDR) and guided by the ADDIE model. Phases in ADDIE Model involved in this research are need analysis, design phase, development phase, implementation phase and evaluation phase. This module will be conducted by falitators in assisting students in making career decisions. It is hoped that this study will provide guidance in supporting career aspirations among GTS and help expanding students’ potential.

Gifted and talented students are students who possess a high cognitive level. Most preceding researches have concentrated more on analyzing students’ cognitive, but the issue of students’ socio-emotional well-being is often overlooked. Based on the conclusions of the needs analysis conducted among students and teachers, the principal issue among these students is the issue of social anxiety. This social anxiety issue will hinder students’ true potential if one does not address it promptly. The issue of social anxiety occurs due to students’ thinking fallacies, social avoidance and stress in themselves and the atmosphere. Hence, to help identify the socio-emotional problems of social anxiety among these gifted and talented students, the researchers proposed the development of the Qalbun Salim Module with the integration of Islamic counselling (Al-Ghazali Psycho-Spiritual Counseling Theory) and western counselling theory (Cognitive Behavioral Theory). This module would be developed through five phases of design and development (Design development research-DDR) using the ADDIE model approach, namely needs analysis, design and development and implementation and evaluation of the module. The development of this module is also a discovery in today’s gifted and talented education. The researchers hope that this Qalbun Salim Module would help students and provide guidance to teachers, identify the level of students’ socio-emotional well-being, and help establish students’ potential to nurture students as Islamic Scholars in the future.

This special edition compiles a collection of papers presented at International Conference on Islamic Higher Education (SeIPTI) 2018 organised by Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) on 25 to 26 November 2018. SeIPTI is a conference that groups scholars to discuss issues pertaining to Islamic higher education. The fifth conference this year brings about the theme of “Barakah Campus”. Under this theme, various issues have been discussed including the concept of barakah in universities and wider topics that are not confined to merely discussions on Islamic higher education but also broader debates on developments related to Islam in various fields in different kinds of organisations. Hence, this special edition highlights the theme, “Developments in Potential Fields in Achieving Barakah”.

This article focused on the focal aim of analysing students’ perceptions in regards to their interest in Mathematics before and after they implement SITIC, a combination of Silat and mental arithmetic skills. A group of Muslim students (N=84) were selected from three primary schools in the district of Nilai, Negeri Sembilan on the basis of snowballing strategy. The students were exposed to 6 sessions of SITIC in a period of 2 weeks with the supervision of their teachers. A set of questionnaire was developed to look into the students’ interest towards mathematics before and after they join SITIC’s sessions. The findings shown that the interest of the respondents in their particular learning subjects increased after it was combined with interesting activities in SITIC. The findings were discussed together with the recommendations for future studies.

This quantitative study was conducted to identify the level of social anxiety among gifted and talented students in one of the gifted and talented Institutions located in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. A total of 252 high school students were selected as respondents for this study to represent the gifted and talented students population. The questionnaires for measuring social anxiety used in this study is the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescent (SAS-A) by La Greca and Lopez (1998). This instrument, with Cronbach's Alpha value of 0.935, is highly reliable. Analysis of data using SPSS 23 was done through descriptive analysis. This study showed that the level of social anxiety among the respondents were high (mean = 2.940). Measures to help students understand and alleviate these social challenges need to be taken by students, teachers, support staff, parents and the community in order to better help these groups. At the end of this study, the researcher proposes the development of motivational module to help students understand and adapt to the uniqueness of this socioemotional issue of social anxiety among Muslim gifted and talented students.

Pelajar pintar dan berbakat adalah merupakan pelajar yang mempunyai tahap kognitif yang tinggi. Kebanyakan kajian lepas lebih memfokuskan kepada kajian tentang kognitif pelajar namun sebenarnya isu kesejahteraan sosioemosi pelajar sering diabaikan. Berdasarkan dapatan analisis keperluan yang dilaksanakan dalam kalangan pelajar dan guru, di dapati isu utama yang berlaku dalam kalangan pelajar ini adalah isu kebimbangan sosial. Isu kebimbangan sosial ini akan merencatkan potensi sebenar pelajar jika tidak ditangani segera. Isu kebimbangan sosial ni berlaku kerana kesilapan berfikir pelajar, penghindaran sosial dan tekanan (stres) dalam diri serta persekitaran. Oleh itu bagi membantu mengenali masalah sosioemosi kebimbangan sosial dalam kalangan pelajar pintar dan berbakat ini, pengkaji mencadangkan agar Modul Qalbun Salim dibangunkan dengan integrasi kaunseling Islam (Teori Kaunseling Psiko-Spiritual Al-Ghazali) serta teori kaunseling barat (Teori Kognitif Tingkah laku). Modul ini akan dibangunkan dengan melalui lima fasa reka bentuk dan pembangunan (Design development research-DDR) menggunakan pendekatan model ADDIE iaitu analisis keperluan, reka bentuk dan pembangunan dan perlaksanaan dan penilaian modul. Pembangunan modul ini juga merupakan inovasi dalam pengajaran pintar dan berbakat masa kini. Diharapkan Modul Qalbun Salim ini akan membantu pelajar dan memberi bimbingan kepada guru serta dalam mengenal pasti tahap kesejahteraan sosioemosi pelajar dan membantu perkembangan potensi pelajar secara menyeluruh dalam usaha melahirkan pelajar sebagai Cendekiawan Islam di masa akan datang.

Mata pelajaran STEM adalah mata pelajaran yang sangat penting untuk melahirkan tenaga kerja selaras dengan perkembangan teknologi dan sains bagi sebuah negara maju. Kaedah: Data kajian diperolehi dengan melibatkan 102 orang murid daripada Asas 1 hingga Asas 3 yang telah menjawab soal selidik secara talian menggunakan aplikasi Google Form. Data kajian dianalisis dengan menggunakan Korelasi Pearson. Hasil: Seramai 37 (36.3%) murid lelaki dan 65 (63.7%) murid perempuan yang terlibat dalam kajian ini membawa kepada nisbah 1:1.8. Keputusan analisis menunjukkan skor min purata nilaian gred keseluruhan (PNGK) responden bagi semester 1 sesi 2021 adalah 3.61 (sisihan piawai 0.20). Perbincangan: Analisis inferensi pula mendapati terdapat hubungan secara signifikan di antara penglibatan rakan sebaya semasa PdPR dan strategi pembelajaran dengan pencapaian STEM di kalangan murid. Pengaruh rakan sebaya menunjukkan tidak terdapat hubungan yang signifikan dengan pencapaian STEM. Kesimpulan: Kebanyakan pelajar Kolej GENIUS Insan mempunyai pencapaian STEM yang baik.

This research purpose is to profile the sleep quality of Kolej GENIUS Insan’s students in four type of components which include the General Productivity, Social Outcomes, Activity Level and Vigilance that has been labelled as Component 1, Component 2, Component 3 and Component 4 respectively. Firstly, articles related to sleep quality and factors affecting sleep quality were studied and reviewed. Next, random sampling method is used to collect data from a group of 35 students that aged approximately around 17 years old. They were required to answer the Functional Outcomes of Sleep Questionnaire (FOSQ) which had been distributed and their data will be verified using the total of percentage that is calculated in each component. Thus, the results obtained in the study has recorded the total of 56.79% for Component 1, 65.71% for Component 2, 63.33% for Component 3 and 79.59% for Component 4. Based on the results, the profiling of Functional Outcomes of Sleep Questionnaire shown that Component 4 which is the Vigilance recorded the highest percentage while Component 1 which is General Productivity recorded the lowest percentage whereas the higher the percentage, the lesser the component was affected by poor sleep quality reception. This concludes that the general productivity of a student was the most affected due to poor sleep quality reception while the vigilance of the student was the least affected.

Da’wah is a process of delivering messages on Islam in the form of mercy to targeted audience via various platforms of media with persuasive methods that will lead to the influence of certain effects (Suhaimi, 2012). Serving da’wah’s work is not exclusively for certain Muslim preachers or da’ie only, yet it is the responsibility of every Muslim. As lecturers in Communication Program who are responsible to teach Communication Technology subject, the researchers have assigned students to play a role as da’ie using blogs as part of the subject’s requirement. Thus, this paper aims at 1) identifying the role played by Communication students of Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) in developing and producing the blog contents, and 2) analysing the contents of blogs they build as a form of da’wah. A number of blogs produced by USIM Communication students while taking this subject have been collected and analysed. The findings showed that most of the blogs’ contents have achieved the objective of the subject, which is to make the students function as modern da’ie.

Gifted and talented students are individuals who possess high intellectual potential and the ability to solve problems. Among the uniqueness of their psychological needs is perfectionism and distinctive thinking style. These students place high standards of achievement in their lives. This study aims to identify perfectionism level and dominant thinking style among gifted and talented Muslim students and to see the correlation between perfectionism level and thinking style. Researchers used the Measure of Contruct Underlying Perfectionism (M-CUP) questionnaire by Agnes Mariann Stairs (2009) to evaluate perfectionism and the instrument of Sternberg - Wagner (1997) translated and modified by Ruslin Amir (2007). Quantitative data was analyzed descriptively and inferred using SPSS version 22. Based on the findings of the perfectionism stage, the mean score of perfectionism for gifted and talented students was 195.03. It shows that perfectionism among gifted and talented students in this study is at a moderate level of score between 143 and 224. For thinking styles, 13 types of thinking styles have been measured which are legislative, executive, judicial, monarchy, hierachy, oligarchy, anarchy, global, local, external, internal, liberal and conservative. The dominant thinking style among students by sequence are executive thinking, judicial, monarchy, oligarchy, anarchy, global, local, external and conservative. Whereby non-dominant thinking style among the students are legislative, hierachy, internal and liberal. The study also found that there was no significant correlation or relationship between perfectionism and dominant thinking styles (executive, judicial, monarchy, oligarchy, anarchy, global, external, conservative and local). Some suggestions were made to get a better understanding and help students with perfectionism and at the same time increase their level of thinking styles in the quest of producing future gifted and talented Islamic scholar.

Kajian ini bertujuan mengenal pasti punca,simptom dan pendekatan kendiri untuk mengurus tekanan emosi dalam kalangan pelajar pintar berbakat di Kolej Permata Insan (KPI), USIM. Kajian ini melibatkan kesemua 48 pelajar pengambilan pertama KPI (29 pelajar lelaki dan 19 pelajar perempuan). Kajian telah dijalankan dengan mengumpul data dengan menggunakan borang soal selidik. Satu set borang soal selidik telah diedarkan kepada semua responden. Data dianalisis secara deskriptif skor min. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa punca utama tekanan emosi dalam kalangan pelajar lelaki ialah faktor akademik (min 3.2) diikuti oleh faktor peribadi (min 2.9) dan faktor persekitaran pembelajaran (min 2.8). Faktor utama tekanan emosi bagi pelajar perempuan juga ialah faktor akademik (min 3.4) diikuti dengan faktor persekitaran pembelajaran (min 3.2) dan faktor peribadi (min 3.0). Pelajar lelaki menunjukkan simptom cepat marah (min 3.0) apabila tertekan. Pelajar perempuan pula menunjukkan simptom pening (min 4.3), letih dan tidak bermaya (min 4.2); fikiran bercelaru (min 4.0) dan sedih (min 4.0) apabila tertekan. Apabila tertekan, kedua dua pelajar lelaki dan perempuan memilih untuk lebih mendekatkan diri dengan Tuhan sebagai langkah mengurus rasa tekanan (lelaki, min 4.2; perempuan, min 4.3). Selain itu, pelajar perempuan juga suka tidur apabila tertekan (min 4.1). Secara keseluruhannya, pelajar perempuan mengalami tekanan emosi yang lebih tinggi berbanding pelajar lelaki