TY - JOUR AU - Mohd Ishak, Nurshida AU - Amzat, Ismail Hussein AU - Yusuf, Byabazaire PY - 2018/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - TEACHERS’ SCHOOL GUIDANCE PRACTICE TOWARD PISA ENHANCEMENT: A COMPARISON BETWEEN MALAYSIA AND FINLAND JF - Al-Shajarah: Journal of the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) JA - SHAJARAH VL - 0 IS - 0 SE - ARTICLES DO - 10.31436/shajarah.v0i0.768 UR - https://journals.iium.edu.my/shajarah/index.php/shaj/article/view/768 SP - 337-368 AB - <p>This study aimed to compare Malaysian and Finnish subject&nbsp;teachers’ perceptions of the practice of school guidance. In addition,&nbsp;it is aimed to compare Malaysian and Finnish subject teachers’&nbsp;perceptions of PISA and its significance and Finnish subject&nbsp;teachers’ perceptions of the school guidance practice towards PISA&nbsp;enhancement. This study is a qualitative research, employing&nbsp;semi-structured interviews with four subject teachers; two&nbsp;participants from Finland and two participants from Malaysia. The&nbsp;study uses a purposive sample and the sample size consists of 4&nbsp;participants. The selected interviewees are teachers in secondary&nbsp;schools in both countries. The data collected are analysed using&nbsp;three phases of thematic analysis with the help of analysis computer&nbsp;software, Nvivo for a more visible systematic analysis. Teachers have&nbsp;different interpretations of what constitutes school guidance; its&nbsp;meaning, definition, framework. Additionally, the personnel involved&nbsp;in school guidance differs in Malaysia and Finland. In terms of the&nbsp;teaching context, participant teachers in consensus agreed that PISA&nbsp;assessment plays little role in the determination of what they believe&nbsp;is important for their students’ needs (skills) to survive in their life&nbsp;after school. School guidance has the potential to contribute towards&nbsp;PISA enhancement if and when the school guidance programme is&nbsp;financially supported plus a strong support or desire from students,&nbsp;teachers, counsellors and the school administration as a whole.</p> ER -