International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research Volume 2, Issue 12, December-2011 1 ISSN 2229-5518 IJSER © 2011 http://www.ijser.org Suitability of Training Programme Based on Integrity Traits Identification Mohamad Farhan Mohamad Mohsin, Faudziah Ahmad, Aniza Mohamed Din, Ku Ruhana Ku-Mahamud, Roshidi Din Abstract- Training programs for teacher’s development in Malaysia are organized ever year. The selection of teachers to attend trainings is currently done randomly, by rotation and not based on their work performance. This poses a problem in selecting the right teacher to attend the right course. Up until now, there is no intelligent model to assist the school management to determine the integrity level of teacher and assign them to the right training program. Thus, this study investigates the integrity traits of teacher using association rule technique with an aim, which can assist the school management to organize a training related to teachers’ integrity performance and to avoid sending the wrong teacher for the training. A dataset of Trainees Integrity Dataset representing 1500 secondary school teachers in Langkawi Island, Malaysia in the year 2009 were pre-processed and mined using apriori. Mining knowledge was analyzed based on demographic and integrity trait of teacher. The finding indicates that adaptability and stability are the weakest integrity trait among teachers. Teachers from the age group of 26 - 30 years are found to have lower integrity performance. However, other demographic factor such as gender, race, and grade position of teachers were not able to reflect their low integrity level in this study. Findings from this study can be used as guideline for school management to propose suitable training programs for teacher to improve their integrity mainly on adaptability and stability traits. Index Terms— association mining, apriori, big five model, data mining, education training, teacher’s integrity ——————————  —————————— 1 INTRODUCTION NTEGRITY is a vital trait that everyone must own to per- fectly complete tasks. This includes teachers who play a very important role to nation. They are responsible to de- velop valuable citizens and educate students with a high- quality education. To teach students mainly at the young age is not an easy job. Therefore, teachers must have high integri- ty, and they must establish integrity within the school to ac- complish the goal. Without the presence of integrity, teachers will definitely fail to do it [1]. To maintain the high level of integrity, the government through the Ministry of Education (MoE) has arranged many programs for teacher’s development through training, work- shop, and seminar. Currently, the training program is ran- domly organized to fit the yearly calendar without consider- ing the right teacher for the right training. The selection of trainees to attend training is done randomly, sometimes by rotation and most of the selection is not based on their work performance. Tailored to [20], there are many training pro- grams available but there is no systematic way to ensure all teachers acquire and continue to develop the knowledge they needed. Even though teachers are evaluated through the yearly per- formance appraisal, the inflexibility of the system to identify less motivated teacher will burden the school management. Up until now, there is no intelligent model in determining the integrity level of teachers and assign them to the right training program. As a result, this will create difficulties for the school man- agement to identify problematic teachers and sending the wrong ones to attend the training. If the requirement of train- ing program is mismatched with the trainee, there is a high possibility that the objective of the training cannot be achieved. Teachers who possess such negative attitudes would not be suitable for an integrity program. If they were selected randomly, there would be a mismatch of supply and demand of needs which would cause failure in the integrity training programs to achieve their goals. According to several studies, selecting a wrong person can increase a cost between 30% and 200% of a person’s annual salary. If a role worth $70,000 a year is filled with the wrong candidate, it could end up costing be- tween $21,000 and $140,000 – a loss most businesses cannot afford to make [2]. Even though there is a keen action form the government to raise the teacher’s integrity, it appears to be a number of reports that some teachers are unable to perform their tasks efficiently when they are having a problem with students and also some of them might involve in crimes [9, 11]. Integrity is viewed as the quality of having an intuitive sense of honesty and truthfulness of a human in completing task. It is normally a product of culture with the relation of good traits and discipline of human beings in all situations [12]. As the re- sult of high integrity, human beings will be more accountable and responsible towards his job and struggle to reach his objec- tive. It is the key of success to everyone, and many organiza- tions have benefited an enormous performance increase when their employees own good integrity behavior. As stated in [1] nothing can work without the presence of integrity. In relation to integrity, it is stressed out that the integrity among teachers is critically important [17] and sometimes the solution towards integrity issues is difficult to be answered. Finding a teacher with high integrity characteristic is not easy since there is no agreement on what makes a teacher have a high quality attitude I ————————————————  All authors are researchers at the School of Computing, UUM College of Arts & Sciences, Universiti Utara Malaysia, 06010 UUM Sintok, Kedah Malaysia.  Inquiries can be emailed to {farhan; fudz; anizamd; roshidi; ruha- na}@uum.edu.my.