The Study of the Relationships among Principals' Cultural Leadership, Teachers' Psychological Contract, Teachers' Community Interaction and School Effectiveness in Junior High School in Taiwan.
| Autor: | CHEN, I-CHIEH, 陳怡潔 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 107 The aim of the study was to explore the relationship among four variables, including principals’ cultural leadership, teachers’ psychological contract, teachers’ community interaction and school effectiveness in junior high school in Taiwan. Not only to understand the real situation among principals’ cultural leadership, teachers’ psychological contract, teachers’ community interaction and school effectiveness, but also to find the correlations with the variables and prediction toward school effectiveness. The survey is carried out with a self-made questionnaire “Sense of principals’ cultural leadership, teachers’ psychological contract, teachers’ community interaction and school effectiveness for junior high school teachers in Taiwan.” The questionnaire consists of 4 parts, including “principals’ cultural leadership for teachers”, “teachers’ psychological contract for teachers”, “teachers’ community interaction for teachers”, “school effectiveness for teachers.” The samples were selected by stratified random selection by geo-location and the scale of schools. There are 598 valid samples collected. The response rate is 92%. The data is analyzed using Description Statistics, T-test, ANOVA, Pearson Correlation Analysis, Multiple Regression Analysis and AMOS. The conclusions for the study can be summarized as below. 1. For the principals’ cultural leadership measures of the sample, the rating for cultural shaping is higher than meaning of cultural innovation, and cultural maintenance. 2. For the teachers’ psychological contract measures of the sample, the rating for profession maintenance is the highest and evolution participation is the lowest. 3. For the teachers’ community interaction measures of the sample, the rating for sharing vision is the highest and action research is the lowest. 4. For the school effectiveness measures of the sample, the rating for teacher profession and social resources are both the highest and administration effectiveness is the lowest. 5. Teachers who had 6-10 years seniority, served in the school whose history is less than 10 years, was in northern school, and was directed by the male principal have higher perception of the principal’s cultural leadership. 6. Teachers who served in the school whose history is less than 10 years and was directed by the male principal have higher perception of the total teachers’ psychological contract. Teachers who served in the large size school which has more then 49 classes have higher perception of the teachers’. profession maintenance. 7. Teachers who served in the school whose history is less than 10 years and was directed by the male principal have higher perception of the total teachers’ community interaction. 8. Teachers who had 6-10 years seniority, served in the school whose history is less than 10 years, was in northern school have higher perception of the total school effectiveness. Teachers who served in the small-middle size school which has less then 49 classes and served as administrators of school affairs have higher perception of the administration effectiveness. 9. There exists a positive correlation between principals’ cultural leadership, teachers’ psychological contract, teachers’ community interaction and school effectiveness. 10. There exist predictors for administration effectiveness, teaching profession, student performance and social resources. The factor that influence the overall school effectiveness most is evolution participation. 11. principals’ cultural leadership, teachers’ psychological contract and teachers’ community interaction are the predictors for school effectiveness. principals’ cultural leadership has a direct and indirect impact on school effectiveness through teachers’ psychological contract and teachers’ community interaction. Last, the suggestions which were from the results can be provided for educational administrations, school principals, school teachers and future researchers as reference. |
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