This research is to design and develop an initial psychometric evaluation of the Quality Early Childhood Care and Education (QECCE) scale. The procedure of developing the QECCE item scale was conducted by using the sequential missed method research approach. The study involved 2464 samples. Systematic reviews were carried out to identify the related constructs for the items, and discussion with expert panels for its validity has been done, followed by an examination of the psychometric quality of the items. The exploratory factor analysis (EFA) generated a four factoring model with 22 items. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) has proven all the items achieve the minimum thresholds of model fit. Based on structural equation modeling (SEM) outputs, the QECCE scale successfully explained 63.25% of the total variance. On this basis, the QECCE scale is a valid and reliable survey instrument specifically for assessing the quality of Malaysian ECCE. The study confirmed that the predictors for.....

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This study focused on the influence of learning organization practice toward teacher leadership among secondary school teachers in the state of Perak. The quantitative approach of descriptive correlational design has been used in this study. The sample consists of 400 teachers from 50 secondary schools in Perak. The data were analyzed using mean and multiple regression. Findings indicate that the level of organizational learning practice (mean = 3.78) is at a high level. In addition, the results show that the learning organizational variables, which is individual learning (β = 0.57, p = 0.05) is the main influence on teacher leadership and followed by global learning (β = 0.25, p = 0.05). A total of 53 percent of variation in teacher leadership is explained by learning organizational variables. In conclusion, the practices of learning organization definitely influence teacher leadership secondary school in Perak. The implications of the study show that learning organization practice .....

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This study proposed to investigate the influence of teachers’ self-directed professional learning in enhancing Teachers’ Leadership Competency (TLC) through teachers’ Action (ACT), Thinking (THI), Feeling (FEE), Accessing (ACC) in Facilitating Improvement and Establishing Standards (FIES), Modeling Leadership Attributes and Skills (MLAS), Participating in Organizational Development (POD), Fostering a Collaborative Culture (FCC), and Performing as Referral Leader (PRL) as well. The data will be collected from 301 teachers from 12 sample schools through self-administered of Teacher Learning and Competency Scale (TLCS) survey instrument. The samples will be selected through proportionate random sampling procedure. The collected data will be analyzed using SPSS software package. The pilot-test data will be analyzed utilizing Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA). The Second Order Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) or known as Pooled Measurement Model will be employed to assess the model .....

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Konsep keusahawanan sosial semakin popular di seluruh dunia. Di Malaysia, keperluan terhadap keusahawanan sosial adalah berdasarkan kepada isu-isu berkaitan komuniti seperti pembangunan ekonomi, sosial, persekitaran dan pendidikan. Komuniti perlu terus diperkasa memandangkan komuniti merupakan kumpulan individu yang membentuk dan menjadi modal insan yang berharga untuk negara ini. Budaya komuniti yang sebahagiannya lebih cenderung menunggu serta bergantung kepada bantuan pihak kerajaan umumnya dan Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat (JKM) khasnya perlu diubah. Dengan menghasilkan seramai mungkin usahawan sosial dalam komuniti dipercayai akan dapat meningkatkan status sosio-ekonomi komuniti tersebut sekaligus merangsang pembangunan negara dengan pantas. Oleh yang demikian, komuniti di negara ini perlu didedah dan dididik Konsep keusahawanan sosial semakin popular di seluruh dunia. Di Malaysia, keperluan terhadap keusahawanan sosial adalah berdasarkan kepada isu-isu berkaitan komuniti seperti p.....

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This study aims to determine the application of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) Analysis of Moment Structure (AMOS) to the organizational commitment and work performance of the Midwife of Public Health Centre in Banyumas Regency. Central Java, Indonesia. Data collection techniques using purposive sampling. The sample of this study were 243 midwives with the following criteria: minimum education D3 midwifery, minimum working period of one year and minimum age of 22 years. The data analysis technique uses SEM AMOS. Model fit is shown by good and significant goodness of fit results. The results showed that indicators of organizational commitment consisting of affective commitment, continuous commitment and normative commitment were able to explain the construct of organizational commitment. Work performance indicators consisting of work performance, contextual performance, adaptive performance and productive work performance can explain the construct of work performance. The construct .....

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The concept of social entrepreneurship is increasingly popular throughout the world. In Malaysia, among the issues often being discussed is pertinent to the employability of its graduates in the job market and the reluctance of those graduates to kick-start any of entrepreneurship ventures. This issue needs to be wisely taken as university students will be the valuable human capital force for the country. At the same time, entrepreneurship should continue to be the starting point of the student's career with social entrepreneurship as one of the preferable option. Social entrepreneurship career aspiration need to be disseminated, introduced and cultured among students. Producing as many social entrepreneurs in the community could help to enhance the social status of the society, as well as encouraging rapid economic development of the country. University students in this country need to be exposed and inculcated with social entrepreneurial concepts and opportunities for them to mobiliz.....

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This paper focuses on the relationship between the Islamic stock market, sukuk, Islamic bank assets and the macroeconomic variables in Malaysia by looking at the market reaction of Islamic shares represented by the FBMES Index to the selected Islamic finance instruments and macroeconomic variables. The Vector Auto Regression (VAR) method was applied to the model of the study. The selected variables to be used in this study comprised the FBMES Shariah Index (FBMES), Sukuk Issuance (SI), Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER), Islamic Bank Assets (IBA), Islamic Interbank Rate (IIR), Crude Palm Oil Prices (CPO) and Crude Oil Prices (CO). The data chosen for this particularwas in the form of quarterly data from the first quarter of 2007 to the fourth quarter of 2017. The results indicated that the FBMES Index was integrated with the set of selected macroeconomic and Islamic finance variables in which it was positively and significantly connected with the SI varia.....

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The aim of this research is to discuss the concepts and practice of social entrepreneurship among mosque institutions in Malaysia.The method used in this study is qualitative analysis. A review of the extant literature and observation were carried out for collecting primary and secondary data. In-depth interviews with key informants such the chairman, bursary and secretary of the mosques institutions were also conducted.The findings have helped in developing a checklist framework for categorising and assisting the mosque institutions to transform into a mosquepreneur.The checklist formed is used as a guidelines in evaluating mosquepreneur in Malaysia.This study produces a new checklist of characteristics of the mosquepreneur model.  ..

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Social activities at the mosque are still something new in Malaysia and it has not received a lot of attention. However, there are still a few mosque institutions which have focused on social entrepreneurship activities for increasing the mosque’s income source. The questionnaires were distributed to 52 mosque chairmen and observation was done to see the potential of local social entrepreneurship activities based on factors such as the organisational profile, the mosque demographics, assets, income acceptance, social and finance business activities. The data was analysed quantitatively using descriptive analysis. The findings showed that most mosque institutions were able to raise income from entrepreneurial activities. The social activities conducted can increase the mosque income and bring benefit to the local community especially the Muslim community in general. As such, the study findings can provide inspiration and indication for other mosques to take part in social entrepreneur.....

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This study was aimed at analysing the customers’ satisfaction level of the Islamic banking service quality as well as identifying the service quality elements which were linked to and influenced the customers’ satisfaction level of Islamic banking in Perak, Malaysia. The CARTER model was utilised to achieve the study objectives. A total of 135 respondents had been chosen among the students of the Bachelor of Economy (Islamic Finance) programme, Sultan Idris Education University. The data acquired was then analysed using the descriptive and inferential methods to answer the study questions and to achieve the study objectives. The analysis showed that the customers’ satisfaction level of Islamic banking service was at a high level. The correlational test conducted also showed that all the service quality elements tested indicated a positive and significant relationship with customers’ satisfaction. The regression analysis results showed that the elements of tangible and complianc.....

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