This study aims to identify the teacher leadership practices of Under-enrolled Primary School teachers and its influence on students’ academic achievement. The level of leadership practices are observed through teachers’ degree of knowledge, values and skills. A total of 103 respondents participated in this study and a set of questionnaire was used as the instrument. The data are analysed by using descriptive statistics analyses and Pearson correlation test was used to detect the relationship between teacher leadership and the students’ academic achievement. The results showed that the level of teachers’ leadership practice is relatively high while the level of academic achievement of the students is relatively moderate. The findings showed that teacher leadership factor is significantly related to students’ academic achievement. As the implication, of the study shows that schools with teacher leadership manage to increase the students’ academic achievement.
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To Cite this Article: Yusof, H., Min, Z. M., Jalil, N. A., Noor, M. A. M., & Yusof, R. (2018). Teacher Leadership and Its Relationship with Students’ Academic Achievement. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 8(9), 1551–1562.
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