Impact of Headmaster Leadership Style, Teacher Management Motivation and Standard1 Assessment MEQSw2 Management of Terengganu National Schools

The goal of the Ministry of Education Malaysia (MOE) is to develop a self-improvement system that is capable of sparking innovation and increasing higher achievement. The Ministry has revised the Malaysian Education Quality Standards (MEQS) self-assessment instrument to enable school assessment to be more holistic. Therefore, it is branded as the Malaysian Education Quality Standards (MEQS) Wave 2 (MEQSw2). The MEQSw2 instrument has been improved and this will enable school leadership to carry out continuous improvements to improve school performance. The instrument used combines various existing assessment instruments to avoid overlap in assessment, thus increasing efficiency. Overall, the study findings show that the factors of the headmaster’s leadership style (based on transformational leadership, transactional leadership, laisez-faire leadership) and teacher management motivation have a significant and positive effect on the Standard1 Assessment MEQSw2. The factor of teacher management motivation does not function as a mediator in the relationship between the headmaster’s leadership style based on transformational leadership, transactional leadership, laisez-faire leadership and the Standard1 Assessment MEQSw2. The overall results of this study show that the headmaster’s leadership style, teacher management motivation, are important factors in influencing the Standard1 Assessment MEQSw2 among the management of Terengganu National Schools.