Teachers’ ICT Competency and Technology Leadership Practices for Pedagogical Digital Transformation Initiative: An Empirical Evidence in Klang, Malaysia

Abstract

In this paper, we investigated the relationship between ICT competency and technology leadership practices located in one of the districts in Selangor, Malaysia. A quantitative correlational study was employed in this research and the respondent was 121 (37.81% response rate) primary school teachers from 35 schools under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education, Malaysia. Permission to conduct the research was obtained from the Education Planning and Research Division (EPRD) and the institutional ethics review board, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). Google form was adopted to distribute the survey form and the data was compiled and analyzed using SPSS version 24.0. Pearson correlation analysis revealed significant positive and moderate correlations between ICT competency and technology leadership practices. In summary, ICT competency and technology utilization has become the premise traits for educational stakeholders. With a great challenge in the educational landscape, teachers and school administrators now have an extensive effort to advocate digitalization in education from myriad pedagogical settings.