The effect of self efficacy on islamic education teachers’ quality in malaysia secondary school

Abstract

One's belief in his ability to do certain task affects the quality of individual work. Thus, this study was designed to examine self-efficacy (SE), the quality of Teacher of Islamic Education (TIE) as murabbi and the relationship between the two variables and also the effect of SE toward TIE quality of murabbi. This study used a quantitative approach and the questionnaire was the main instrument. Multi stage cluster sampling technique was used to determine the sample. The sample size involved in this research were 544 TIE representing a population of 8,562 TIE national secondary school in Peninsular Malaysia. The results showed that SE of TIE were very high (min = 4.32) and TIE quality at an excellent level (min = 4.32). In addition, moderate and positive correlation between SE with TIE quality (r = 0.619). The multiple regression analysis step by step (step wise) showed that all four aspects of the TIE SE is a predictor of the TIE quality factor as murabbi accounting for 34.2% of variance change for TIE quality as murabbi. This study was also seen to have implications on the theory and models used; in addition to policy makers, especially the training section; and to the guide instructional practices of TIE.