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

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’ self-efficacy is higher in among respondents in the researched schools. . In addition, the findings also showed that there is no significant difference between teachers’ self-efficacy 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.