Teacher Leadership and its Relationship with High School Students' Performance in Malaysia

Hamidah Yusof; Haslinda  Antisan; Mohd. Asri Mohd. Noor; Mahaliza Mansur

The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between teacher leadership and students' academic achievement in Malaysia secondary school. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted to gather data from 52 teachers. The data analysed using descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation tests. The findings obtained from the analyses showed that the mean score values for every dimension of teacher leadership factor a relatively moderate. The findings also show that there was a significant correlation relationship between the components of self-assessment and make changes, communication, diversity, teaching skills, continuous improvement and independent organisation in the teacher leadership model with students’ academic performance. The dimension of teaching skills has a higher significant correlation to students’ academic performance followed by an independent organisation, diversity, self-assessment and make a change, and the least significant correlation is the dimension of continuous improvement. This study suggests that teachers need to improve leadership practices to enhance students' academic performance.

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