This study aims to identify the level of trust in the leaders and describes the psychometric prop... more This study aims to identify the level of trust in the leaders and describes the psychometric properties of the instrument of trust against the leaders modified according to the situation and the uniqueness of the organization’s management system of education in Malaysia
This study examined the relationship between feedback environment and teacher's career adapta... more This study examined the relationship between feedback environment and teacher's career adaptability among Primary School Teacher in Kuching. This study will be further understanding the significance and relationship between the feedback environment and career adaptability among teachers. At the same time, the influence of the feedback environment on a teacher's career adaptability was explored in this study. Pearson correlation techniques and multiple linear regression analysis techniques used to analyze the data after collecting them through the questionnaire. Practically, this study will help to implement a feedback environment in school organizations so that the teachers understand the importance of improving career adaptability. Theoretically, on the other hand, this study will provide a new perspective on improving teachers' career adaptability through the feedback environment.
Students around the world need advanced skills to succeed in the globalized, knowledge-based worl... more Students around the world need advanced skills to succeed in the globalized, knowledge-based world of today or this 21<sup>st</sup> century. Traditional approaches are no longer practiced as they have always been but improvised using technology to cater to the needs of the education sector. Language teachers are challenged to incorporate the use of educational technology in teaching languages to their students. However, some results from previous literature indicate a few factors have to be taken into consideration when integrating technology in the language teaching and learning processes, such as parental support, students' diverse demographic and socioeconomic backgrounds as well as their accessibility to technology, students' knowledge in using technology, and teachers' readiness to incorporate technology in teaching English to their students. By considering the factors as mentioned, it is suggested that more technological professional development should ...
This study will be looking into whether the levels of job commitment and job satisfaction are hig... more This study will be looking into whether the levels of job commitment and job satisfaction are highly related by the type of leadership style portrayed by leaders in higher educational organisations. It will be descriptive research to further understand the correlational relationship between arrogance leadership (independent variable) and job commitment and job satisfaction (dependent variables). The research instrument is an online questionnaire through an online platform – Google Form. The data will be analysed using SPSS software. Practically, this study will help the higher educational organisation and its management to identify the level of arrogance leadership, job commitment, and job satisfaction within its organisation. Theoretically, on the other hand, this study will be unique as it will focus on the Malaysian context. Besides, there are a lot of studies on leadership but not many are on arrogance leadership, especially in Malaysia. <b></b>
The purpose of this quantitative descriptive study is to identify the level of students' lear... more The purpose of this quantitative descriptive study is to identify the level of students' learning styles, the level of usage towards online technology learning platform and whether there is any significant relationship between students' learning styles as independent variable and usage towards course components in online technology learning platform as the dependent variable. A simple random sampling is employed with a study sample of 30 foundation students comprising 18 males and 12 females all in the non-technical areas from a private higher educational institution in Sibu, Sarawak offering an online technology learning platform. Two instruments adapted from previous researchers, Grasha-Riechmann Student Learning Style Scale and RASE (Resources, Activity, Support, and Evaluation) pedagogical model were used to collect the data in a survey through a questionnaire in August 2018. A pilot study was carried out with test results indicating the value of Cronbach Alpha of .955. ...
This is a quantitative and descriptive study to identify the relationship between the charismatic... more This is a quantitative and descriptive study to identify the relationship between the charismatic leadership style practiced by the head of the department and the well-being of the lecturers. A total of 172 lecturers consisting of eight different academic departments in polytechnics participated in the study. The instruments used are Charismatic Leadership Model by Conger-Kanungo (1994) and "Performance-Welfare Model" developed by Pryce-Jones (2010). The Pearson Correlation Inference method has been used to identify the charismatic leadership style of the head of the department with the well-being of lecturer's work. The findings show that the level of charismatic leadership style of the head of the department and the level of well-being of lecturers is at a high and satisfactory level. Furthermore, the findings show that the charismatic leadership style of the head of department has a significant relationship with the wellbeing of the lecturer's work. The findings...
Results of this study indicate that there is a direct correlation between workplace happiness in ... more Results of this study indicate that there is a direct correlation between workplace happiness in schools to teachers’ efficacy (collective and self-efficacy), affective commitment and innovative behavior. In the context of this finding requires that school administrators work environments that encourages more happiness in order to change attitudes, self-confidence and a group of teachers to improve teaching and student learning. In addition, this study also reinforces the need for teachers to enhance confidence and trust collectively if there is an atmosphere or culture that is more happiness (pleasant working atmosphere). In conclusion, these findings can be used by the school management to create an atmosphere of happiness in the workplace to improve the efficacy, innovative behavior and affective commitment in teachers' burden.
This study examines the moderating effects of trust towards the leaders in explaining the relatio... more This study examines the moderating effects of trust towards the leaders in explaining the relationship between feedback environment and job guidance in Malaysian polytechnics lecturer context. A total of 411 lecturers from five Malaysian polytechnics, which become the benchmark of high-performance polytechnic education transformation process, had participated in this study. The findings revealed that trust towards leaders moderates the relationship between feedback environment and job guidance at workplace. These findings have shown that feedback environment and trust towards leaders as employee’s psychological factors that need to be focused along the process of job guidance.
This is a study about the relationship of arrogance leadership, job commitment and job satisfacti... more This is a study about the relationship of arrogance leadership, job commitment and job satisfaction in higher educational organisations in Sarawak. This study looked into whether the level of job commitment and job satisfaction in an organisation is highly related to the type of leadership style portrayed by leaders in higher educational organisations. It was implemented to further understand the correlational relationship between arrogance leadership (independent variable) and job commitment and job satisfaction (dependent variables). The research instrument, a questionnaire through an online platform-Google Form, was distributed from January till February 2020. The data were collected from one hundred and thirty respondents from twenty-one higher educational organisations in Sarawak. The data was analysed using the SPSS software. The findings of this study proved that although the level of arrogance leadership may be at the below average level or at its infancy stage, it is important to note that it exists in higher educational organisations which will significantly affect other variables like job commitment and job satisfaction. This is supported when the findings showed that the overall level of job commitment is also low. Lastly, the findings proved that there are significant relationships between arrogance leadership with job commitment and job satisfaction among the lecturers. Practically, this study is able to help higher educational organisation and its management to identify the level of arrogance leadership, job commitment and job satisfaction within its organisation. Theoretically, on the other hand, this study is unique as it focused on the Malaysian context.
This was a study descriptively identifying relationship between feedback environment and job sati... more This was a study descriptively identifying relationship between feedback environment and job satisfaction conducted in Polytechnic Malaysia. A total of 105 lecturers via random sampling method were chosen from local Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) education organization in Sarawak. The questionnaire consisted of three parts including the modified items of Job Satisfaction Scale (Ling, 2016; Quinn & Shepard, 1974). The extent of organization support on feedback process was diagnosed using feedback environment questionnaires by Ling (2016). The findings displayed that there is a significant influence in feedback environment towards job satisfaction. Regression analysis also shown that the best combination of feedback credibility, feedback quality and feedback delivery contributed greater change in job satisfaction. In conclusion, this study recommends that feedback environment factors should be prioritized not only to create job satisfaction but to maintain the ...
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN EDUCATION METHODOLOGY, 2016
This study aimed to identify the effect of feedback on the credibility of the source towards cons... more This study aimed to identify the effect of feedback on the credibility of the source towards constructive feedback and self-efficacy of teaching. Specifically, the objective of this study was to determine whether the credibility of the source of feedback be the moderator of the relationship between the constructive feedback and self-efficacy of teaching. In this study, a total of 411 lecturers from three premier polytechnics and two polytechnics which achieved excellent recognition through polyrate took part. Data for this study were collected through a questionnaire which was adapted from previous researchers’ questionnaire. Finding shows that higher academic qualification does have an effect on feedback credibility. Hypothesis testing is done by using multiple regression analysis and hierarchical multiple regression analysis. Findings have shown the constructive feedback and credibility of feedback have an influence on self-efficacy of teaching. In addition, the findings also in...
Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2017
The aim of this study was to investigate mediating effect of feedback seeking behaviour on the re... more The aim of this study was to investigate mediating effect of feedback seeking behaviour on the relationship between classroom learning environment and mathematics anxiety. The study sample consisted of 158 students from a selected polytechnic in Malaysia. Questionnaires were used in this study. The results showed that all the variables studied in this study had a mean score values between 4.50 to 5.60 Moreover, the findings also showed that classroom learning environment and feedback seeking behaviour has an influence towards mathematics anxiety. Specifically, based on the result of the data analysis, it can be concluded that feedback seeking behaviour acts as a full mediator towards the relationship between classroom learning environment (lecturer support and involvement) and mathematics anxiety (learning mathematics anxiety and mathematics evaluation anxiety). Findings suggest that the lecturer support and participation on an ongoing basis is very important in overcoming mathemati...
This quantitative study was conducted to identify the influence of transformational leadership as... more This quantitative study was conducted to identify the influence of transformational leadership as a predictor of job satisfaction among Form Six teachers. A total of 148 Form Six teachers from Kuching, Sarawak through a random sampling technique were identified as respondents of the study. Data was collected by distributing questionnaires to the respondents. The questionnaire used was adapted from the previous researchers’ questionnaires. The findings show that the dimensions of individual consideration, charisma, and motivation in transformational leadership have a significant effect on job satisfaction among the teachers. Based on the findings obtained, the two-ways relations between the middle leaders and teachers need to be improved by adopting an open approach and working to understand the work-related problems.
Teaching and learning approaches practiced by educators today must be different to suit the conte... more Teaching and learning approaches practiced by educators today must be different to suit the contents and time. Lecturers-teaching focused on student-centered teaching should be encouraged and emphasized as highly active student involvement is required during the process of teaching and learning. Active student involvement will form the interest of students to explore knowledge. The purpose of this study is to get the students' perception of the lecturers' teaching and students' learning experiences. In this study, the lecturers' teaching aspect highlighted is composed of a lecturer-centered teaching methods and student-centered teaching and learning experience aspects is in relation to active learning and passive learning. This study involved a total of 169 respondents among 2 nd semester engineering students of diploma program who are studying in Engineering Mathematics 2 at Polytechnic Kuching Sarawak. These samples were identified through stratified random sampling method to answer a questionnaire about the lecturers' teaching and students learning experiences. The instrument used was a structured questionnaire which containing 20 items. The data obtained were analyzed using descriptive statistics; i.e. mean, percentage and standard deviation. Through this study, the overall mean value obtained for lecturer-centered teaching methods and student-centered teaching methods are respectively 4.08 and 3.81. While the overall mean for active learning and passive learning is respectively 3.65 and 4.04. In this regard, the role of the lecturers who teach should not be underestimated because the majority of students still consider lecturer as a source of knowledge and "guardian" of them.
Maklum balas perlu disalurkan bukan sahaja secara formal, malah secara tidak formal dan berterusa... more Maklum balas perlu disalurkan bukan sahaja secara formal, malah secara tidak formal dan berterusan dalam setiap organisasi pendidikan. Hal ini bertujuan untuk membantu pengikut agar jelas dengan jangkaan prestasi pemimpin dan standard piawaian yang telah ditetapkan oleh organisasi. Kewujudan budaya persekitaran maklum balas yang positif perlu ditekankan dalam setiap organisasi bagi memupuk potensi pengikut dan meningkatkan prestasi kerja demi kepentingan individu dan organisasi. Justeru, kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti faktor peramal yang terbaik daripada persekitaran maklum balas terhadap efikasi kendiri pengajaran. Sebanyak 247 orang responden kajian terdiri daripada pensyarah-pensyarah politeknik dalam Kategori 1 telah dipilih secara rawak dari negeri Pulau Pinang, Terengganu, dan Sarawak. Data kajian pula diperoleh dengan menggunakan satu set soal selidik yang terdiri daripada tiga bahagian termasuk bahagian profil responden dan soal selidik yang telah diadaptasikan daripada soal seldik Feedback Environment Scale (FES) (2004) dan Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSE) (2001) yang terdiri daripada tujuh skala Likert. Keduadua soal selidik telah dialih bahasa ke Bahasa Melayu dan mempunyai pekali kebolehpercayaan Cronbach's Alpha setinggi .920 bagi FES dan .931 bagi TSE. Data yang diperoleh telah dianalisis dengan menggunakan kaedah regresi berganda. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa semua dimensi persekitaran maklum balas dan efikasi kendiri pengajaran mempunyai hubungan korelasi yang positif dan signifikan antara satu sama lain. Hasil kajian turut mendapati terdapat enam pemboleh ubah, iaitu kebolehpercayaan sumber maklum balas, kualiti maklum balas, penyampaian maklum balas, maklum balas tidak membina, ketersediaan sumber maklum balas, dan menggalakkan maklum balas muncul sebagai peramal yang signifikan terhadap efikasi kendiri pengajaran. Dapatan juga menunjukkan bahawa dimensi maklum balas tidak membina sebagai faktor peramal terbaik terhadap peningkatan efikasi kendiri pengajaran dalam organisasi pendidikan. Hasil kajian ini dapat digunakan oleh pemimpin untuk menekankan pembangunan persekitaran maklum balas di tempat kerja bagi meningkatkan efikasi kendiri pengajaran dalam kalangan tenaga pengajar demi melahirkan modal insan berkualiti dan berketerampilan sesuai dengan kehendak pasaran.
Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Management, Feb 1, 2015
This study aims at identifying the level of trust in the leaders and describes the psychometric p... more This study aims at identifying the level of trust in the leaders and describes the psychometric properties of the instrument of trust against the leaders modified according to the situation and the uniqueness of the organization’s management system of education in Malaysia. The study was conducted through a survey using a questionnaire as a research instrument. A total of 19 items in Malay language translation which have been modified from the original instrument Affect- and Cognition-based Trust built by McAllister (1995) were used for this study. Data for this study were obtained from 251 randomly selected lecturers from four polytechnics. The results of factor analysis obtained two factors explaining 73.1 percent of the variance. Meanwhile, the level of trust in the leaders through descriptive analysis found that two dimensions of trust in leaders based on the affective and cognitive based trust showed high level from the perspective of the lecturers. These results demonstrate the reliability of the instrument modified on trust in leaders for this study could represent a desired two good dimensions as the original version of McAllister (1995) and provide strong justification for using the translated instrument in the education organizations in Malaysia. In practice, this finding suggests the utility of strengthening organizational support for increasing the potential among the followers.
This study aims to identify the level of trust in the leaders and describes the psychometric prop... more This study aims to identify the level of trust in the leaders and describes the psychometric properties of the instrument of trust against the leaders modified according to the situation and the uniqueness of the organization’s management system of education in Malaysia
This study examined the relationship between feedback environment and teacher's career adapta... more This study examined the relationship between feedback environment and teacher's career adaptability among Primary School Teacher in Kuching. This study will be further understanding the significance and relationship between the feedback environment and career adaptability among teachers. At the same time, the influence of the feedback environment on a teacher's career adaptability was explored in this study. Pearson correlation techniques and multiple linear regression analysis techniques used to analyze the data after collecting them through the questionnaire. Practically, this study will help to implement a feedback environment in school organizations so that the teachers understand the importance of improving career adaptability. Theoretically, on the other hand, this study will provide a new perspective on improving teachers' career adaptability through the feedback environment.
Students around the world need advanced skills to succeed in the globalized, knowledge-based worl... more Students around the world need advanced skills to succeed in the globalized, knowledge-based world of today or this 21<sup>st</sup> century. Traditional approaches are no longer practiced as they have always been but improvised using technology to cater to the needs of the education sector. Language teachers are challenged to incorporate the use of educational technology in teaching languages to their students. However, some results from previous literature indicate a few factors have to be taken into consideration when integrating technology in the language teaching and learning processes, such as parental support, students' diverse demographic and socioeconomic backgrounds as well as their accessibility to technology, students' knowledge in using technology, and teachers' readiness to incorporate technology in teaching English to their students. By considering the factors as mentioned, it is suggested that more technological professional development should ...
This study will be looking into whether the levels of job commitment and job satisfaction are hig... more This study will be looking into whether the levels of job commitment and job satisfaction are highly related by the type of leadership style portrayed by leaders in higher educational organisations. It will be descriptive research to further understand the correlational relationship between arrogance leadership (independent variable) and job commitment and job satisfaction (dependent variables). The research instrument is an online questionnaire through an online platform – Google Form. The data will be analysed using SPSS software. Practically, this study will help the higher educational organisation and its management to identify the level of arrogance leadership, job commitment, and job satisfaction within its organisation. Theoretically, on the other hand, this study will be unique as it will focus on the Malaysian context. Besides, there are a lot of studies on leadership but not many are on arrogance leadership, especially in Malaysia. <b></b>
The purpose of this quantitative descriptive study is to identify the level of students' lear... more The purpose of this quantitative descriptive study is to identify the level of students' learning styles, the level of usage towards online technology learning platform and whether there is any significant relationship between students' learning styles as independent variable and usage towards course components in online technology learning platform as the dependent variable. A simple random sampling is employed with a study sample of 30 foundation students comprising 18 males and 12 females all in the non-technical areas from a private higher educational institution in Sibu, Sarawak offering an online technology learning platform. Two instruments adapted from previous researchers, Grasha-Riechmann Student Learning Style Scale and RASE (Resources, Activity, Support, and Evaluation) pedagogical model were used to collect the data in a survey through a questionnaire in August 2018. A pilot study was carried out with test results indicating the value of Cronbach Alpha of .955. ...
This is a quantitative and descriptive study to identify the relationship between the charismatic... more This is a quantitative and descriptive study to identify the relationship between the charismatic leadership style practiced by the head of the department and the well-being of the lecturers. A total of 172 lecturers consisting of eight different academic departments in polytechnics participated in the study. The instruments used are Charismatic Leadership Model by Conger-Kanungo (1994) and "Performance-Welfare Model" developed by Pryce-Jones (2010). The Pearson Correlation Inference method has been used to identify the charismatic leadership style of the head of the department with the well-being of lecturer's work. The findings show that the level of charismatic leadership style of the head of the department and the level of well-being of lecturers is at a high and satisfactory level. Furthermore, the findings show that the charismatic leadership style of the head of department has a significant relationship with the wellbeing of the lecturer's work. The findings...
Results of this study indicate that there is a direct correlation between workplace happiness in ... more Results of this study indicate that there is a direct correlation between workplace happiness in schools to teachers’ efficacy (collective and self-efficacy), affective commitment and innovative behavior. In the context of this finding requires that school administrators work environments that encourages more happiness in order to change attitudes, self-confidence and a group of teachers to improve teaching and student learning. In addition, this study also reinforces the need for teachers to enhance confidence and trust collectively if there is an atmosphere or culture that is more happiness (pleasant working atmosphere). In conclusion, these findings can be used by the school management to create an atmosphere of happiness in the workplace to improve the efficacy, innovative behavior and affective commitment in teachers' burden.
This study examines the moderating effects of trust towards the leaders in explaining the relatio... more This study examines the moderating effects of trust towards the leaders in explaining the relationship between feedback environment and job guidance in Malaysian polytechnics lecturer context. A total of 411 lecturers from five Malaysian polytechnics, which become the benchmark of high-performance polytechnic education transformation process, had participated in this study. The findings revealed that trust towards leaders moderates the relationship between feedback environment and job guidance at workplace. These findings have shown that feedback environment and trust towards leaders as employee’s psychological factors that need to be focused along the process of job guidance.
This is a study about the relationship of arrogance leadership, job commitment and job satisfacti... more This is a study about the relationship of arrogance leadership, job commitment and job satisfaction in higher educational organisations in Sarawak. This study looked into whether the level of job commitment and job satisfaction in an organisation is highly related to the type of leadership style portrayed by leaders in higher educational organisations. It was implemented to further understand the correlational relationship between arrogance leadership (independent variable) and job commitment and job satisfaction (dependent variables). The research instrument, a questionnaire through an online platform-Google Form, was distributed from January till February 2020. The data were collected from one hundred and thirty respondents from twenty-one higher educational organisations in Sarawak. The data was analysed using the SPSS software. The findings of this study proved that although the level of arrogance leadership may be at the below average level or at its infancy stage, it is important to note that it exists in higher educational organisations which will significantly affect other variables like job commitment and job satisfaction. This is supported when the findings showed that the overall level of job commitment is also low. Lastly, the findings proved that there are significant relationships between arrogance leadership with job commitment and job satisfaction among the lecturers. Practically, this study is able to help higher educational organisation and its management to identify the level of arrogance leadership, job commitment and job satisfaction within its organisation. Theoretically, on the other hand, this study is unique as it focused on the Malaysian context.
This was a study descriptively identifying relationship between feedback environment and job sati... more This was a study descriptively identifying relationship between feedback environment and job satisfaction conducted in Polytechnic Malaysia. A total of 105 lecturers via random sampling method were chosen from local Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) education organization in Sarawak. The questionnaire consisted of three parts including the modified items of Job Satisfaction Scale (Ling, 2016; Quinn & Shepard, 1974). The extent of organization support on feedback process was diagnosed using feedback environment questionnaires by Ling (2016). The findings displayed that there is a significant influence in feedback environment towards job satisfaction. Regression analysis also shown that the best combination of feedback credibility, feedback quality and feedback delivery contributed greater change in job satisfaction. In conclusion, this study recommends that feedback environment factors should be prioritized not only to create job satisfaction but to maintain the ...
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN EDUCATION METHODOLOGY, 2016
This study aimed to identify the effect of feedback on the credibility of the source towards cons... more This study aimed to identify the effect of feedback on the credibility of the source towards constructive feedback and self-efficacy of teaching. Specifically, the objective of this study was to determine whether the credibility of the source of feedback be the moderator of the relationship between the constructive feedback and self-efficacy of teaching. In this study, a total of 411 lecturers from three premier polytechnics and two polytechnics which achieved excellent recognition through polyrate took part. Data for this study were collected through a questionnaire which was adapted from previous researchers’ questionnaire. Finding shows that higher academic qualification does have an effect on feedback credibility. Hypothesis testing is done by using multiple regression analysis and hierarchical multiple regression analysis. Findings have shown the constructive feedback and credibility of feedback have an influence on self-efficacy of teaching. In addition, the findings also in...
Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2017
The aim of this study was to investigate mediating effect of feedback seeking behaviour on the re... more The aim of this study was to investigate mediating effect of feedback seeking behaviour on the relationship between classroom learning environment and mathematics anxiety. The study sample consisted of 158 students from a selected polytechnic in Malaysia. Questionnaires were used in this study. The results showed that all the variables studied in this study had a mean score values between 4.50 to 5.60 Moreover, the findings also showed that classroom learning environment and feedback seeking behaviour has an influence towards mathematics anxiety. Specifically, based on the result of the data analysis, it can be concluded that feedback seeking behaviour acts as a full mediator towards the relationship between classroom learning environment (lecturer support and involvement) and mathematics anxiety (learning mathematics anxiety and mathematics evaluation anxiety). Findings suggest that the lecturer support and participation on an ongoing basis is very important in overcoming mathemati...
This quantitative study was conducted to identify the influence of transformational leadership as... more This quantitative study was conducted to identify the influence of transformational leadership as a predictor of job satisfaction among Form Six teachers. A total of 148 Form Six teachers from Kuching, Sarawak through a random sampling technique were identified as respondents of the study. Data was collected by distributing questionnaires to the respondents. The questionnaire used was adapted from the previous researchers’ questionnaires. The findings show that the dimensions of individual consideration, charisma, and motivation in transformational leadership have a significant effect on job satisfaction among the teachers. Based on the findings obtained, the two-ways relations between the middle leaders and teachers need to be improved by adopting an open approach and working to understand the work-related problems.
Teaching and learning approaches practiced by educators today must be different to suit the conte... more Teaching and learning approaches practiced by educators today must be different to suit the contents and time. Lecturers-teaching focused on student-centered teaching should be encouraged and emphasized as highly active student involvement is required during the process of teaching and learning. Active student involvement will form the interest of students to explore knowledge. The purpose of this study is to get the students' perception of the lecturers' teaching and students' learning experiences. In this study, the lecturers' teaching aspect highlighted is composed of a lecturer-centered teaching methods and student-centered teaching and learning experience aspects is in relation to active learning and passive learning. This study involved a total of 169 respondents among 2 nd semester engineering students of diploma program who are studying in Engineering Mathematics 2 at Polytechnic Kuching Sarawak. These samples were identified through stratified random sampling method to answer a questionnaire about the lecturers' teaching and students learning experiences. The instrument used was a structured questionnaire which containing 20 items. The data obtained were analyzed using descriptive statistics; i.e. mean, percentage and standard deviation. Through this study, the overall mean value obtained for lecturer-centered teaching methods and student-centered teaching methods are respectively 4.08 and 3.81. While the overall mean for active learning and passive learning is respectively 3.65 and 4.04. In this regard, the role of the lecturers who teach should not be underestimated because the majority of students still consider lecturer as a source of knowledge and "guardian" of them.
Maklum balas perlu disalurkan bukan sahaja secara formal, malah secara tidak formal dan berterusa... more Maklum balas perlu disalurkan bukan sahaja secara formal, malah secara tidak formal dan berterusan dalam setiap organisasi pendidikan. Hal ini bertujuan untuk membantu pengikut agar jelas dengan jangkaan prestasi pemimpin dan standard piawaian yang telah ditetapkan oleh organisasi. Kewujudan budaya persekitaran maklum balas yang positif perlu ditekankan dalam setiap organisasi bagi memupuk potensi pengikut dan meningkatkan prestasi kerja demi kepentingan individu dan organisasi. Justeru, kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti faktor peramal yang terbaik daripada persekitaran maklum balas terhadap efikasi kendiri pengajaran. Sebanyak 247 orang responden kajian terdiri daripada pensyarah-pensyarah politeknik dalam Kategori 1 telah dipilih secara rawak dari negeri Pulau Pinang, Terengganu, dan Sarawak. Data kajian pula diperoleh dengan menggunakan satu set soal selidik yang terdiri daripada tiga bahagian termasuk bahagian profil responden dan soal selidik yang telah diadaptasikan daripada soal seldik Feedback Environment Scale (FES) (2004) dan Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSE) (2001) yang terdiri daripada tujuh skala Likert. Keduadua soal selidik telah dialih bahasa ke Bahasa Melayu dan mempunyai pekali kebolehpercayaan Cronbach's Alpha setinggi .920 bagi FES dan .931 bagi TSE. Data yang diperoleh telah dianalisis dengan menggunakan kaedah regresi berganda. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa semua dimensi persekitaran maklum balas dan efikasi kendiri pengajaran mempunyai hubungan korelasi yang positif dan signifikan antara satu sama lain. Hasil kajian turut mendapati terdapat enam pemboleh ubah, iaitu kebolehpercayaan sumber maklum balas, kualiti maklum balas, penyampaian maklum balas, maklum balas tidak membina, ketersediaan sumber maklum balas, dan menggalakkan maklum balas muncul sebagai peramal yang signifikan terhadap efikasi kendiri pengajaran. Dapatan juga menunjukkan bahawa dimensi maklum balas tidak membina sebagai faktor peramal terbaik terhadap peningkatan efikasi kendiri pengajaran dalam organisasi pendidikan. Hasil kajian ini dapat digunakan oleh pemimpin untuk menekankan pembangunan persekitaran maklum balas di tempat kerja bagi meningkatkan efikasi kendiri pengajaran dalam kalangan tenaga pengajar demi melahirkan modal insan berkualiti dan berketerampilan sesuai dengan kehendak pasaran.
Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Management, Feb 1, 2015
This study aims at identifying the level of trust in the leaders and describes the psychometric p... more This study aims at identifying the level of trust in the leaders and describes the psychometric properties of the instrument of trust against the leaders modified according to the situation and the uniqueness of the organization’s management system of education in Malaysia. The study was conducted through a survey using a questionnaire as a research instrument. A total of 19 items in Malay language translation which have been modified from the original instrument Affect- and Cognition-based Trust built by McAllister (1995) were used for this study. Data for this study were obtained from 251 randomly selected lecturers from four polytechnics. The results of factor analysis obtained two factors explaining 73.1 percent of the variance. Meanwhile, the level of trust in the leaders through descriptive analysis found that two dimensions of trust in leaders based on the affective and cognitive based trust showed high level from the perspective of the lecturers. These results demonstrate the reliability of the instrument modified on trust in leaders for this study could represent a desired two good dimensions as the original version of McAllister (1995) and provide strong justification for using the translated instrument in the education organizations in Malaysia. In practice, this finding suggests the utility of strengthening organizational support for increasing the potential among the followers.
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