Date of Award

1-1-2001

Thesis Type

Masters

Document Type

Thesis

Divisions

Faculty of Education

Department

-

Institution

Universiti Malaya

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to look into the relationship between the principal's transformational leadership with the implementation of curriculum innovation in secondary school in the district of Kota Setar, Kedah. This research was held in two schools, the effective and the non-effective school. The data for this research is compile by using a set of questionnaire from 80 respondents, which are teachers selected at random from the two schools. The principal's transformational leadership was determined by using the Principal Transformational Leadership questionnaire whereas the Implementation of Curriculum Innovation questionnaire was used to measure the curriculum innovation implemented in secondary school. Two statistic methods have been used to analyst the data in answering the research questions. Those are the descriptive method, which involved the frequency, percentage, min and standard deviations while the inference method, which involved the Pearson's correlation and the t-test The result of the research shows that the degree of transformational leadership by the principal either from the effective or the noneffective school is high. Research also shows that only two transformational leadership characteristic that is the charisma and the inspirational motivation characteristic has its significant differences between the effective school and the noneffective school. It also shows that there is a significant relationship between the principal's transformational leadership and the intellectual stimulation characteristic together with the individual consideration with the implementation of curriculum innovation in school are merely moderate in term of relationship strength. On the other hand, in the non-effective school, the research shows that no significant relationship between the transformational leadership of the principal with all the characteristics against the implementation of curriculum innovation. Overall, the research proved that there is a significant relationship between the principal's transformational leadership and the charisma characteristic, intellectual stimulation and the individual consideration with the implementation of curriculum innovation in secondary school. Research suggested that the related authorities such as the district education office, the state education department, the education ministry and the higher education institutions will plan and implement a special programme to train the principal in transformational leadership. The sufficient knowledge and skills regarding the curriculum innovation should be exposed to all principals and teachers in school.

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Additional Information

Dissertation (M.A) -- Faculty of Education, Universiti Malaya, 2001.

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