A Study on Relationships between Principals’ Knowledge Leadership and Teacher Professional Development － Take the Elementary Schools in Pingtung County as examples

• Main Authors: Lee, Kuoyin, 李國印
• Other Authors: 陳慶瑞
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/74748501040710274312

碩士 === 國立屏東教育大學 === 教育行政研究所 === 101 === The purpose of this study is to understand the current status between principals’ knowledge leadership and teachers’ professional development of elementary schools in Pingtung County, the distinct condition on variances of different background between principals’ knowledge leadership and teachers’ professional development of elementary schools in Pingtung County, to discover the relation of principals’ knowledge leadership and teachers’ professional development, and end up in exploring the prediction on principals’ knowledge leadership to teachers’ professional development of elementary schools in Pingtung County. This Study adopted questionnaire survey aimed at teachers of elementary schools in Pingtung County as the object of analysis with the tool of “questionnaire survey of principals’ knowledge leadership and teachers’ professional development of elementary schools” to proceed investigation. The questionnaire object was based on 34 elementary schools and 360 teachers in Pingtung County as sample, the data collected was proceeded and analyzed on independent sample by t factor, single factor variances analysis, Scheffé comparison afterward, Pearson cumulated difference and the related multiple stepwise regression, the conclusion obtained is as follows: 1. The overall and each aspect performance principals’ knowledge leadership of the public elementary schools in Pingtung County are belonged to “moderate to high degree” , where the performance of “knowledge leadership” is the best with highest scores, however, “learning of members” gets lowest scores. 2. The current status of teachers’ professional development of the public elementary schools in Pingtung County is belonged to “moderate to high degree”, where “professional growth” has gotten the highest scores, but “the content of courses” is the lowest scores. 3. The cognitions among teachers with different job duties of the public elementary schools in Pingtung County on principals’ knowledge leadership that have significant difference. 4. The teachers of the public elementary schools in Pingtung County with different job duties, seniority, level of education, all have significant difference on teachers’ professional development. 5. The higher the different level of principals’ knowledge leadership, the better the performance of teachers’ professional development. 6. As to teachers’ professional development, the principals’ knowledge leadership of the public elementary schools in Pingtung County has a moderate and positive relation with predictable ability.