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Principals’ Transformational Leadership Practices and their Relationship with Teacher Blended Teaching in Rural Schools

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: The increasingly challenging world of education requires educational leaders to re-evaluate their leadership approaches to improve teacher teaching, especially in rural areas. This study aims to identify the level of transformational leadership practices of principals and its relationship with teachers' blended teaching in secondary schools. Blended teaching, although effective, is still at a low level in rural schools. This study used an online questionnaire with a quantitative approach involving 132 respondents from 210 teachers. The findings show that the level of transformational leadership of principals is very high (mean=4.30, SD=0.10) and the level of teacher commitment is high (mean=4.13, SD=0.07. The analysis found a significant relationship between transformational leadership practices of principals and blended learning teachers in SMK Pensiangan district, Sabah (r=0.516, p

Source: International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development

DOI: 10.6007/ijarped/v14-i1/24711

Authors: Jenifer Binti Parai, Bity Salwana Alias

Institution: National University of Malaysia

Language: English

Topic: School Leadership and Teacher Performance

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4407186432