KOMUNITI PEMBELAJARAN PROFESIONAL DAN EFIKASI KENDIRI GURU SEKOLAH MENENGAH DI PULAU PINANG

Abstract

This paper explains the relationship and influence between professional learning community (PLC) with the teachers’ self-efficacy in secondary schools in Penang. This study utilized a survey method that uses a questionnaire as the instrument of data collection. A total of 234 teachers from 10 schools in south west Penang were randomly selected as respondents. The findings showed that the level of teachers’ selfefficacy is higher in among respondents in the researched schools. . In addition, the findings also showed that there is no significant difference between teachers’ selfefficacy among teachers with different teaching experience. Moreover, this study also found that there are significant but weak correlation between the dimensions of PLC and the dimensions of teachers’ self-efficacy. While the multiple regression analysis proved that there were none of the PLC’s dimensions became the significant predictor of variance changes in teachers’ self-efficacy. Based on these findings, it can be concluded that although both variables i.e. PLC and teachers’ self-efficacy were at a high level among respondents, however the relationship between their dimensions were weak but are significant and the PLC’s dimensions have a very low impact on the improvement of teachers' self-efficacy.