Amalan kepimpinan instruksional pengetua di sekolah menengah Daerah Penampang, Sabah

This study entitled "Instructional Leadership Practice Among Principals of Secondary Schools in Penampang District, Sabah" is a desceiptive quantitative research to study the level of principals functional instructional leadership practices and its relationship with teachers' work commitment. Specifically, the study aims to: (i) identify the level of funtional instructional leadership practices among principals of secondary schools in Penampang District; (ii) determine the level of work commitment among teachers of secondary schools in Penampang District; and (iii) identify the relationship between the functional instructional leadership practices of the principals and the work commitment of the teachers in the secondary schools of Penampang District. The study involved a teacher population of 459 people in six national secondary schools in Penampang District, Sabah. A total of 210 teachers were selected using simple random sampling as the research samples. The study used questionnaire as the research instrument, based on the instructional leadership characteristics Model of Hallinger and Murphy (1987). Research data were analyzed descriptively and inferentially using the SPSS 12.0 software. Descriptive statistics were used to determine the frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation whereas inferential statistics were used to test the research hypotheses using t-test, ANOVA and Pearson Correlation, r. Research findings showed that the level of functional instructional leadership among principals as perceived by teachers and the level of teachers' commitment are high. The relationship between functional instructional leadership and work commitment is moderate, emphasizing on incentives given to teachers onl