Empowering ulul albab teacher trainees through qei module training / Zulkarnin Zakaria

This quantitative study focused on a new batch of teacher trainees who went through
the soft skill and personal development modules developed by the Ulul Albab Centre in
Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI). This paper analysed the impact of QEI (Quranic,
Encyclopaedic and Ijtihadik) modules on the participants of Ulul Albab Centre (PUA)
programme in the university, and examined the attitudes of the programme’s participants
towards this new module in their campus life as a university student and individual. The QEI
module covers leadership and soft skills which are identified as vital qualities needed for future
educators. A standard questionnaire was distributed to the first batch of programme participants
of 150 students after they completed the first year of programme. The data was further analysed
using the SPSS software and discussed in the final report of the study. The findings revealed
that a high percentage of participants believed the modules taught gave constructive impact on
their personal development and soft skills and they had positive attitude and high satisfaction
rate with the implementation of the Ulul Albab programme. The results would encourage
improvements and new ideas to the existing modules as participants shared their comments and
suggestions as discussed in this paper