Industrial Internship Student's Expectations and Feedback towards Student Professional Skills Development

Azmi Khalib; Farrah Diana Saiful Bahry; Saidatul Akmar Ismail; Abdurrahman Jalil

doi:10.21834/ebpj.v7iSI10.4113

Authors

Azmi Khalib UTM Library, Perpustakaan Raja Zarith Sofiah, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor 81310, Malaysia
Farrah Diana Saiful Bahry Faculty of Information Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia
Saidatul Akmar Ismail Faculty of Information Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia
Abdurrahman Jalil Faculty of Information Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v7iSI10.4113

Keywords:

Knowledge Management, Knowledge Reuse, Personal Development, Industrial internship Students

Abstract

Theoretical knowledge and industry experience are crucial for the higher learning student's professional development. There was little literature previously that adopted the model or theories to find out the behavior of industrial internship students on knowledge reuse. This study aims to confirm the phenomena of knowledge reuse practice among industrial internship duration by constructing the model combination of individual characteristics, environmental, and technological factors with related knowledge reuse behavior that is able to influence the personal development of industrial students. From the survey involving 183 respondents, this research analysis shows that all six measures pass the good item-scale reliability result.

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