Efficiency of Leadership Course on the Development of Leadership Capability and Self-concept: A Case Study of 4th Grade Students in Two Elementary Schools in Taipei City

• Main Authors: LIAO,TAN-MING, 廖丹敏
• Other Authors: 王振德
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48060276538529351307

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 特殊教育學系在職進修碩士班 === 93 === ABSTRACT This thesis aims to design a leadership course for fourth grade gifted students after having referred to domestic and foreign leadership courses and the literature. In a ten-week experiment, we tend to discuss the affect of the designed course onto the leadership capability and the self-concept of target elementary students. Non-equivalent pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design is mainly adopted in this thesis. Contrastive experiments, direct observation and interviews are qualifying complements. Subjects are purposive sampled from two elementary schools in Taipei City. Twenty-two gifted students form the intervention group and sixteen in the controlled group. Intervention group attends an experimental class and control group studies in the original class with no additional manipulations. Interpersonal Experiment Measure and Self-image Questionnaire for Children are adopted in the measurement. One-way analysis of covariance is used to test the hypothesis. The results of a “Unit Evaluation Sheet”, student interviews and instructors’ “observation and interviews” are analyzed as a qualification. The main results are: 1. In terms of leadership capability, the intervention group is significantly better than the controlled group. 2. The grades of personal characteristics, empathy, communication skills, group participation, decision and plan making and problem solving in the intervention group are significantly better than those of the controlled group. 3. There is no significant difference in terms of interpersonal relationship between the groups. 4. To the extent of self-concept, students in the intervention group are significantly better than those in the controlled group. 5. Students' attitudes towards body, ability, achievement and self-recognition of personal characteristics in the intervention group are significantly better than controlled group. 6. The aptitude to the society and self-esteem in terms of value system of the students in the intervention group are not significantly better than those of the controlled group. 7. The newly designed course adopted in the experiments is reported to be highly appreciated by the participants and teachers. According to the results of the experiments, the researcher commits certain suggestions to the leadership courses in terms of education and further research.