Professional Learning Communities - Malaysia

The data helps to understand the relationship between the variables including professional learning communities, collective teacher efficacy, job satisfaction, trust, and emotional intelligence among Malaysian primary school teachers. The main research objectives were: (1) to examine the direct relationship between professional learning communities, teachers' collective efficacy, and job satisfaction, (2) to identify the significant mediating role of teachers' trust in colleagues, and (3) to identify the significant moderating effect of teachers' emotional intelligence. The research instruments used for the study included English and Malay versions of the teachers' demographic information, Professional Learning Communities Assessment-R, Collective Teacher Belief Scale, Spector's Job Satisfaction Survey, Omnibus-T Scale, and Wong & Law Emotional Intelligence Scale. Descriptive data analysis was performed using the software Statistical Packages for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Thereafter, structural equation modeling (SEM) using SmartPLS was done to study the direct, mediating, and moderating effects between the variables.