Tengku Faekah Tengku Ariffin

Tengku Faekah Tengku Ariffin
Universiti Utara Malaysia | UUM · School of Education and Modern Languages

PhD

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Introduction
Tengku Faekah Tengku Ariffin is a Professor at the School of Education, Universiti Utara Malaysia. Her expert area is Educational Management, particularly Human Resource Management in Education. Her research interests and publications are on HRM or HRD in the educational context, focusing on teacher development and performance; and the surrounding factors.
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January 2005 - present
Universiti Utara Malaysia
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  • Professor (Associate)

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Publications (48)
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The professional learning community (PLC) has established itself as a form of teacher professional development embedded in the work of teachers. Although it has been discussed in the literature for a considerable period of time, the concept has not been delivered in practice effectively enough to be widely accepted as a significant contributor to t...
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Challenges in the VUCA world has brought to significant changes in how leaders’ competencies can help them to lead their organizations. Educational institutions all over the world are not excluded from this radical phenomenon of change. This chapter highlights some of the key characteristics of contextual leadership as a more robust type of leaders...
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A PROCESS OF HOW A MODEL OF CONTEXTUAL LEADERSHIP FOR PRINCIPALS IN MALAYSIAN SCHOOL CONTEXT (MyCLIPS) WAS DEVELOPED AND VALIDATED
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Automatic text summarisation involves creating a concise and coherent description while preserving essential information and context. Time constraints faced by educators prompted this study. Writing is a crucial skill for students, especially in English; however, many need more feedback on their mistakes. Writing, akin to scaffolding, necessitates...
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As integration of Theory Z and Fiedler's Contingency Theory in leadership, this study proposed a new model to reveal the underlying mechanism of psychological elements such as leadership practices, teacher empowerment, and teachers' workplace wellbeing towards teachers' organizational commitment (TOC). Despite the relevance of contextual leadership...
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This is the first standard setting study in Malaysia aimed at developing Performance-Level Descriptors (PLDs) and determining cut scores that differentiate undergraduates with low, moderate and high employability skills using a newly developed Situational judgment Test (SJT). SJT items from five domains critical for future job employment: 1) critic...
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The study into teacher resilience has been inadequate due to a lack of measures that apply to educational settings. The items measuring teacher resilience were constructed through literature extensive discussion with the experts in the field and further discussion with the practitioners, i.e., secondary school teachers. The Teacher Resilience Instr...
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This article focuses on the development of the Contextual Leadership Instrument for the Principals in Malaysian schools (MyCLIPS)*. Two sets of data were gathered from school teachers in Malaysia to test instrument reliability, content validity and construct validity via exploratory factor analysis (EFA), using SPSS 25.0; followed confirmatory fact...
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Higher education institutions face various challenges and obstacles in producing quality graduates who not only excel academically but also grow holistically, ready to face the job market upon their graduation from university. In line with this issue, strong psychosocial development, as well as a learning experience, is very necessary for students...
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This study investigates teachers' perception of their school leaders, in particular, principals' instructional leadership practices, and tests whether teachers' perception varies across gender. A version of the Hallinger and Murphy [35] Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale (PIMRS) was employed and administered to 389 secondary school tea...
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Secara umum, Malaysia masih dominan dalam proses top-down sedangkan di negara-negara Barat, mereka sepenuhnya telah mengamalkan sistem desentralisasi. Oleh itu, alat pengukuran yang ada perlu disesuaikan dan diubahsuai untuk membolehkan mereka benar-benar mengukur dan menilai berdasarkan kajian kontekstual. Oleh itu, kajian ini cuba mengesahkan Sch...
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This study investigates the impact of principals’ instructional leadership practices on secondary school teachers’ effectiveness in the North Central Geo-Political Zone of Nigeria. To answer the research question of the study, the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale (PIMRS) and the Virgilio Teacher Behaviour Inventory (VTBI) were admini...
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Purpose – The primary aim of service learning is to produce holistically developed students. Despite the mandate from the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia to infuse service learning in the programs of studies since 2015, service learning in the country remains in its infancy. Critical insights concerning contextual compatibility are still mis...
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This study was conducted to identify the level of principals' contextual leadership practices, teacher empowerment and teacher well-being at work and to see the influence of teacher empowerment as a mediating variable on the relationship between principals' contextual leadership and teacher well-being at work. A cross-sectional survey was used to c...
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Teacher empowerment is increasingly gaining attention among scholars and practitioners across educational contexts due to positive outcomes, especially for school effectiveness in general. Teachers should be empowered to improve their efficiency and professionalism based on their capabilities towards achieving an enhanced teacher workplace and well...
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This E-book is a collection of outcome reports by the thematic working groups (TWGs) of EDUsummIT2019. EDUsummIT (International Summit on IT in Education) is a global knowledge building community of researchers, educational practitioners, and policy-makers committed to supporting the effective integration of research and practice in the field of IT...
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Kajian ini dijalankan bagi mengenal pasti tahap amalan kepimpinan kontekstual pengetua, pengupayaan guru dan kesejahteraan guru di tempat kerja serta melihat pengaruh pengupayaan guru sebagai pemboleh ubah pengantara terhadap hubungan kepimpinan kontekstual pengetua dengan kesejahteraan guru di tempat kerja. Tinjauan kajian rentas digunakan bagi me...
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This study examines the factors that can enhance student's academic resilience rom positive psychological perspective. The findings of the study show that protective factors such as relationships, high expectations and significant involvement are the dimensions that can improve the resilience of students who have divorced parents. Distance is not a...
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The main aim of the study is to examines the relationship between teacher effectiveness and perceived organizational support in mediating by self-efficacy. Teacher effectiveness is the ability to produce gains on student achievement scores, taking account of a baseline measure of students’ performance. Perceived Organizational Support (POS) refers...
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This paper is based on a study of the roles and responsibilities of Excellent Teachers, as described by the teachers themselves and their role sets (Merton, 1957). The data collected via semi-structured interviews with the teachers were triangulated with documents which show official expectations of Excellent Teachers. Data were also compared with...
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This paper is based on a study of the role and responsibilities of excellent teachers, as described by the teachers themselves and their role sets (Merton 1957). The data collected via the semi-structured interviews with the teachers were triangulated with documents which show official expectations of excellent teachers. Data were also compared wit...
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Purpose – This study focused on the validation of a Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) instrument for using ICT in teaching and learning effectively in a Malaysian secondary school setting. The aim of this study was to confirm a seven-factor TPACK model which includes Technological Knowledge, Content Knowledge, Pedagogical Knowle...
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Malaysian Higher Education Teaching and Learning Council (MAGNETIC), Centre for Academic Development (CADe), UPM High-Impact Educational Practices (HIEPs) are techniques and designs for teaching and learning that have proven to be beneficial for student engagement and successful learning among students from many backgrounds. Through intentional pr...
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This paper describes the development of a prediction model for the early identification of low employability graduates in Malaysia. A total of five proportional hazard models are estimated and using the criteria of percentage correctly and wrongly predicted, a prediction model is selected based on the percentage correctly predicted. The percentile...
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Malaysia’s education hub strategy has given the impetus for local academics to reposition their stance and recalibrate their tools. This paper reports an initiative by Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) in pursuance of learning and teaching in higher education (HE) agenda using evidence-based practices. Two concurrent studies were undertaken to examin...
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Tujuan – Berdasarkan model kognitif sosial, kajian ini mengkaji kesan langsung dan tidak langsung terhadap efikasi guru secara kolektif. Secara khusus, kajian ini menilai peranan kesejahteraan hidup, keserakanan, kesejahteraan di tempat kerja dalam menerangkan efikasi guru secara kolektif. Metodologi – Seramai 836 sampel guru dipilih secara rawak d...
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Tujuan – Berdasarkan model kognitif sosial, kajian ini mengkaji kesan langsung dan tidak langsung terhadap efikasi guru secara kolektif. Secara khusus, kajian ini menilai peranan kesejahteraan hidup, keserakanan, kesejahteraan di tempat kerja dalam menerangkan efikasi guru secara kolektif. Metodologi – Seramai 836 sampel guru dipilih secara rawak...
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Abstract (in English) Purpose – Based on a social cognitive model, the study examined direct and indirect precursors of collective teacher efficacy.Specifically, it assessed the roles of personal well-being, collegiality and workplace well-being to explain collective teacher efficacy. Methodology – A sample of 836 teachers were randomly selected fr...
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ABSTRAK Tinjauan literatur mendapati bahawa pengukuran keserakanan guru yang tidak konsisten telah menyebabkan perlunya konstruk keserakanan guru diberikan perhatian. Walaupun kebanyakan penyelidik terdahulu menyatakan keserakanan guru mempunyai pelbagai konstruk, namun tidak terdapat instrumen yang menyatupadukan kesemua domain yang penting dan me...
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Purpose - Based on a social cognitive model, the study examined direct and indirect precursors of collective teacher efficacy. Specifically, it assessed the roles of personal well-being, collegiality and workplace well-being to explain collective teacher efficacy. Methodology - A sample of 836 teachers were randomly selected from twelve MRSM in the...
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Tujuan – Berdasarkan model kognitif sosial, kajian ini mengkaji kesan langsung dan tidak langsung terhadap efikasi guru secara kolektif. Secara khusus, kajian ini menilai peranan kesejahteraan hidup, keserakanan, kesejahteraan di tempat kerja dalam menerangkan efikasi guru secara kolektif. Metodologi – Seramai 836 sampel guru dipilih secara ra...
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This study was designed to examine the relationship between socialization experience and the task performance of new teachers. It proposed to do this by testing a structural model. In explicating the relationship between the two constructs, teacher engagement in workplace learning activities and wellbeing were included in the structural model as pl...
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Reading is a process that involves effort and choice, hence the significance of motivation. In Malaysian public universities, students usually function in an academic domain where two literacies, English and Bahasa Malaysia, exist side by side, often within the same classroom. This rather unique context adds a new dimension to research on the multi...
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In recent years, researchers reported that effective ICT integration requires teachers to acquire knowledge of technology, content, pedagogy and the intersection of these, known as TPACK (Mishra & Koehler, 2006; Archambault, & Crippen, 2009). This study specifically sought to answer: 1) What are pre-service teachers’ perceptions of their TPACK mast...
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Purpose – In western countries, a model to explain student engagement in college or university has long been established. However, there is a lack of research to develop and validate a model which may help to better understand student engagement in the local university context. There is currently no established instrument to measure student engag...
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Purpose – In western countries, a model to explain student engagement in college or university has long been established. However, there is a lack of research to develop and validate a model which may help to better understand student engagement in the local university context. There is currently no established instrument to measure student engagem...
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Quantitative research into the topic of workplace learning among teachers has been limited due to the lack of measures that are applicable to the educational settings. In this study, items measuring teachers’ engagement in workplace learning activities were generated through literature review and discussions with schoolteachers; selected by the aut...
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The study examined a hypothesized structural model which postulated the relationships between: 1) five personality factors which are extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness; 2) the perceptions of the school as a learniqg organization; 3) engagement in workplace learning activities; and, 4) job performance. The main...
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Purpose – In this study, a structural model based on Kurt Lewin’s Field Theory was proposed to explain how the interrelationships between a person (i.e. personality factors) and his or her environment (i.e. how one perceives the school as a learning organisation) can influence the person’s behaviour. The outcome behaviour of interest in this...
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Purpose – In this study, a structural model based on Kurt Lewin's Field Theory was proposed to explain how the interrelationships between a person (i.e. personality factors) and his or her environment (i.e. how one perceives the school as a learning organisation) can infl uence the person's behaviour. The outcome behaviour of interest in this study...
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The study was conducted to examine the status of computer use and attitudes among secondary school students. It also identifies the relationships among the variables and the predictors of computer attitudes. External variables (such as computer experience and frequency of use), perceived usefulness and confidence are included as potential anteceden...
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Studies on computer use in education have taken into account the gender factor since the 1980s. However, results regarding gender differences have not been consistent, especially from the aspect of attitudes towards computers. This study indentifies student's attitudes toward computer technology and their skills in using computers. Information for...

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Some countries may require the public school teachers undergo a certain number of hours of CPD annually.  Perhaps there are also countries which have specific kind of CPD programmes for the school teachers.  
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In Malaysia, teachers can be promoted to a non-administrative post through the Excellent Teacher scheme. This is similar to the Master Teacher Program in some other countries. 

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