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<article-title>The Effectiveness of Teacher Leadership and the Development of the Soft Skills Among Secondary School Students in Malaysia</article-title>
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<author>Yahya Don<sup>1</sup>, Arumugam Raman<sup>1</sup>, Siti Noor Ismail<sup>1</sup> and Kamarudin Kasim<sup>2</sup></author>

<aff><sup>1</sup>Universiti Utara Malaysia</aff>
<aff><sup>2</sup>Universiti Teknologi Malaysia</aff>

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<title>ABSTRACT</title>
<p>This paper aimed to identify the effectiveness of teacher leadership and student&#x2019;s commitment with
their involvement towards co-curricular activities in developing the soft skills among the Malaysian
secondary school students. This study uses a quantitative approach in cross-sectional survey. The
population of this study are the secondary school students from two states in Malaysia. The stratified
random sampling is used to select 500 samples from the research population. The instruments used in
this research are Organizational Commitment Qustionaire (OCQ) Mowday, Steers &#x0026; Porter (1979),
Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) (Kouzes &#x0026; Posner, 1995), and Soft Skills adopted by Razzaly
Wahid et al. (2006). This result of this study shows that there is a significant and positive relationship
between teacher&#x2019;s leadership, student&#x2019;s commitment and involvement with co-curricular activities, and
student&#x2019;s soft skills. Thus, the school leadership should play an important role in enhancing the
invovement of the school co-curriculum activities to enhance the student&#x2019;s soft skills. In addition, the
school leadership should also look into the two important indicators which is the effectiveness of the
leadership practice and the commitment of the students&#x2019;s involvement as the outcome enshrined in the
National Education Philosophy.</p>
<p><italic>Keywords: </italic>Teacher leadership, Student&#x2019;s commitment and involvement, Co-curricular activities,
Student&#x2019;s soft skills, Malaysian secondary school. </p>
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