Kesediaan Pelajar Tingkatan Empat Mempelajari Mata Pelajaran Pengajian Kejuruteraan Awam

This research was carried out to study the student’s readiness in the aspect of interest, English Language skills and prior knowledge towards learning in Civil Engineering Studies at Sekolah Menengah Teknik Seri Iskandar. This descriptive research involved 78 respondents of form four students in the session of 2007 who enrolled in the Civil Engineering Course. Questionnaire was used as an instrument in this research with reliability at α = 0.906. Raw data was analyzed by using Statistical Packages for the Social Sciences 13.0 (SPSS) in order to get the frequency, percentage and mean of the data. The result shows that the students’ readiness towards learning in Civil Engineering Studies at Sekolah Menengah Teknik Seri Iskandar were at the medium level in the aspect of interest, English Language skills and their prior knowledge. Result of t-test shows that, there is no difference between genders in the aspect of interest and English Language skills towards the learning in Civil Engineering Studies. On the other hand, there is a difference between genders in the aspect of prior knowledge towards the learning of Civil Engineering Studies. It is hoped that the findings can be used as a guide for schools, State of Education Department (JPN) and Ministry of Education Malaysia (KPM) in order to help students that enrolled to this subject and as well as other technical subjects.