Abstract: 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.
Keywords: Headmaster
Leadership Style, Teacher Management Motivation, Standard1 Assessment MEQSw2,
Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)