: 10.56472/25835238/IRJEMS-V4I11P124
Erviany Dwiana Putri, Fetty Poerwita Sary. "Exploring the Role of Digital Leadership and Digital Competence in Enhancing Teacher Performance in Smart School Settings" International Research Journal of Economics and Management Studies, Vol. 4, No. 11, pp. 180-189, 2025. Crossref. http://doi.org/10.56472/25835238/IRJEMS-V4I11P124
The smart school is an initiative designed to enhance educational quality by integrating technology in response to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The establishment of a smart school in a vocational high school seeks to produce graduates equipped with skills aligned with industry demands, thereby enhancing their employability. Educators play a pivotal role in technology-driven learning activities within a smart school environment, guiding students toward their intended objectives, which necessitates the continuous enhancement of their performance as teachers. This study examines the principal's digital leadership, teachers' digital competence, and teacher performance, while also investigating the impact of digital leadership and digital competence on teacher performance within the context of a smart school. The innovation of this study lies in its application to the establishment of a smart school. Questionnaires were administered to all 110 teachers at SMK X (Vocational High School X) to collect comprehensive data using a quantitative research approach. The descriptive findings indicate that digital leadership is categorized as good, digital competence is categorized as competent, and teacher performance is categorized as good. The findings from hypothesis testing demonstrate that digital leadership and digital competence exert a positive and statistically significant influence on teacher performance.
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Digital Competence, Digital Leadership, Smart School, Teacher Performance.