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Leadership, career growth and socialization paths of Malaysian public school managers

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The main purpose of this study was to understand the nature of learning for school managers in government schools as they learn and make decisions at different stages of the socialization stages from accession to retirement. A phenomenological approach was utilized and participants were selected from excellent and successful school managers through elite sampling. The data collection methods employed to achieve the purpose of the study were mainly in-depth interviews with the participants. The thematic findings which emerged from this data included four socialization stages namely: (1) Entry into Headship; (2) Identity Formation; (3) Making a Difference; and (4) Reformulation of Personal Values. The study concluded that the findings of this study provided a helpful guide for understanding school managers’ learning in the socialization process towards achieving better leadership and decision making. Implications for relevant training and appropriate support for leadership preparation .....

Article Published 2014 1785 hits Available

Measuring teacher attitudes toward change : an empirical validation

Kin Tai Mei, Abdull Kareem Omar,

Article Published 2017 1540 hits Available

Identiti tempat pelancongan bagi bandar-bandar kecil lama: kajian kes Teluk Intan dan Batu Gajah

Mohd Nasuhairree Abdull Manaf

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Kajian ini bertujuan meneroka identiti tempat pelancongan bagi dua buah bandar kecil lama yang terletak di Teluk Intan dan Batu Gajah, Perak. Di antara lokasi pelancongan Kellie’s Castle dan Menara Condong Teluk Intan dipilih sebagai pusat lokasi pengumpulan data primer dalam kalangan pelancong tempatan. Seramai 250 orang responden di Batu Gajah dan 170 orang di Teluk Intan dipilih sebagai sampel kajian. Responden ditemu bual bertujuan untuk mendapatkan pandangan berkaitan identiti bagi kedua-dua lokasi pelancongan. Data yang diperoleh daripada borang soal selidik dan temu bual ringkas dianalisis secara deskriptif menggunakan min, jadual silang dan Khi Kuasa Dua untuk memahami identiti tempat pelancongan tersebut. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa identiti tempat pelancongan di Teluk Intan dan Batu Gajah dikenal pasti sebagai ikon warisan sejarah berbanding dengan ikon pelancongan moden. Walau bagaimanapun, jika strategi perancangan pelancongan tidak konsisten dengan identiti pelanco.....

Thesis Published 2017 1772 hits Available

Principal change leadership competencies and teacher attitudes toward change : the mediating effects of teacher change beliefs

Kin Tai Mei, Kareem Omar Abdull, Nordin Mohamad Sahari, Bing Khuan Wai,

Article Published 2017 2938 hits Limited

An exploration of the relationship between teacher change beliefs and teacher attitudes toward change

Kin Tai Mei, Kareem Omar Abdull,

Article Published 2017 1757 hits Limited

Emotional intelligence of school principals in managing change: Malaysian perspective

Omar Abdull Kareem

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The increasing demands for accountability and school reform continuously challenge the roles of school leaders. Today, school leadership is no longer task driven per se, but emotionally compelling as emotions and change are interlinked at the micro-level of organisational behaviours. The purposes of the study were to examine the levels of Principal Change Leadership Emotional Intelligence (PCLEI) in Malaysian secondary schools and the demographic determinants of PCLEI. Analysis of the survey was performed based on the data of 743 school principals, 2021 senior assistants and 2707 teachers. The findings revealed that, (a) school principals were rated as Excellent in PCLEI; (b) in terms of dimensions, school principals were reported Excellent in Emotional Regulation and Emotional Utilisation, and Good in Emotional Perceiving and Expressing and Emotional Understanding; and (c) PCLEI was reliably related to gender, race, age and seniority but not academic qualification...

Article Published 2019 1735 hits Available

Professional learning communities in Peninsular Malaysia: Comparing day secondary school and national religious secondary school

Omar Abdull Kareem

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The main aim of the study was to examine and compare the implementation of professional learning communities (PLCs) in Day Secondary School (DSS) and National Religious Secondary School (NRSS) in Peninsular Malaysia. A total of 350 teachers from DSS and 371 from NRSS completed the survey with usable data. The results revealed that, i) both DSS and NRSS achieved the level of Quite Good in PLCs, its dimensions as well as its sub-dimensions; ii) NRSS achieved a higher mean score than DSS in PLCs, Organizational Factor as well as Non-organizational Factor and the differences were significant; iii) both DSS and NRSS achieved a higher mean score in Organization Factor than Non-Organizational Factor; iv) among all the sub-dimensions of PLCs, both DSS and NRSS achieved the highest mean score in Shared Norms and Vision; v) among all the sub-dimensions of PLCs, DSS achieved the lowest mean score in External Support System whereas NRSS achieved the lowest mean score in Structural Support. This st.....

Article Published 2019 1850 hits Limited

The relationship between learning-centred leadership and professional learning community: Evidence from Malaysia

Omar, Emeritus Abdull Kareem

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The objective of the study was to investigate the relationship between Learning-Centred Leadership (LCL) and Professional Learning Community (PLC) in Malaysian secondary schools. By employing disproportionate stratified sampling, a total of 811 schoolteachers completed the survey. The results revealed that: i) the relationship between LCL and PLC is significant and positive; ii) the correlation between LCL and PLC is strong whereby LCL contributed 54.8% the total variation of PLC; iii) Builds a Learning Vision, Provides Learning Support, Manages the Learning Programme and Modelling are predictors of LCL and iv) Manages the Learning Programme contributed the most to PLC, followed by Modelling, Builds a Learning Vision and Provides Learning Support. The study uncovers the fact that LCL is a good predictor of PLC. It offers local and international practitioners another dimension about educational leadership that LCL is an effective leadership style that can gauge improvement in enhancing .....

Article Published 2024 546 hits Available

Hubungan antara iklim sekolah dan kepuasan kerja dalam kalangan guru Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan di daerah Temerloh, Pahang

Nor Hafizah Abdull Latif

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Tujuan utama kajian ini adalah untuk mengkaji hubungan antara iklim sekolah dan kepuasan kerja dalam kalangan guru sekolah menengah. Tambahan, kajian ini juga bertujuan mengenal pasti pengaruh iklim sekolah yang paling dominan dalam mempengaruhi kepuasan kerja dalam kalangan guru. Kajian ini mengunakan teori ekologi Bronfenbrenner. Reka bentuk kajian tinjauan yang berbentuk “cross sectional” digunakan untuk mengumpulkan data. Secara keseluruhan, 242 guru sekolah menengah dari Temerloh, Pahang dipilih untuk kajian ini mengunakan persampelan rawak berstrata. Instrumen Organizational Climate Questionnaire yang telah dibangunkan oleh Litwin dan Stringer (1968) dan telah diterjemahkan oleh National Institute of Translation (ITNM, 2009) digunakan untuk mengukur iklim sekolah. Manakala instrumen soa.....

Thesis Published 2021 2285 hits Available

DNA barcoding assessment of fishes in Tasik Raban , Lenggong, Perak for development of education manual

Ramizah Abdull Rahman

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This study aimed to molecularly barcode fish diversity found in Tasik Raban, Lenggong Perak, using cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) markers and to develop an educational manual for public reference, consisting of BOLD online data. Freshwater fish were sampled from Tasik Raban and a fin clip from each specimen was collected for molecular amplification utilizing the COI gene. Prior to creating the manual through the implementation of the ADDIE instructional learning methodology, various tasks such as morphological identification, COI divergence assessment, species delimitation, and phylogenetic analysis were undertaken. A total of 142 samples were collected encompasses eight families, 15 genera, and 16 species. Sequencing of extracted DNA revealed 77 DNA barcode with pairwise distance ranging from 0.00% to 2.00%. The application of Neighbour-Joining, Maximum Parsimony, and Maximum Likelihood in phylogenetic analysis showed consistent tree structures without any overlapping clusters. .....

Thesis Published 2024 239 hits Available

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