A study on the relationship among the principals’ space leadership, school organizational change and teacher efficacy of junior high schools in Taipei City

• Main Author: 林靜詩
• Other Authors: 湯志民
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/fxmwx8

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 學校行政碩士在職專班 === 105 === The purpose of this study was to understand the relationship among Junior High School Principals' Space Leadership, School Organizational Change and Teacher Efficacy in Taipei City. To investigate the perceptions of junior high school teachers on the correlations among the three variables mentioned above. We employed questionnaire survey to investigate the subjects included public junior high school teachers in Taipei City. With the census-taking, we retrieved 721 from 828 questionnaires. The response rate of the questionnaire was 87% with the usable rate was 71% from 588 usable ones. The collected data was analyzed by using the statistical methods of descriptive statistics, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson product-moment correlation, regression analysis and structural equation modeling. According to the results, these conclusions were reached statistically as follows. 1. The performance of principals’ space leadership was above average in the junior high school schools.“Curriculum Integration ” was the best among the four dimensions of the junior high school principals’ space leadership in Taipei City, and there was advancement on the situation about “User Participation” remained. 2. The performance of school organizational change reached a medium-high level in the junior high schools. The dimensions of “innovation of educational technology ” was the highest among all, and lower scores on “organizational culture”. 3. Teachers in the junior high schools evaluated the school “teacher efficacy ”as high. The score was highest in the dimension of "efficacy for instructional strategies" and the lowest in the dimension of “efficacy for student engagement.” 4. Male teachers, teachers serving as directors, teachers in schools with the size of 13-24 classes, and school age between 21 and 40 years had higher evaluations on their practice of space leadership with regard to principals. 5. Male teachers and teachers serving as directors had higher evaluations on school organizational change. 6. Male teachers, teachers serving as directors, and teachers graduating from normal schools had higher evaluations on teacher efficacy. 7. The relationship among principals’ space leadership, school organizational change and teacher efficacy was positively correlated. 8. The principals’ space leadership showed significant predictability on school organizational change and teacher efficacy, particularly in the dimension of “Curriculum Integration ”and “ core competencies of members”. 9. The structural equation model showed the well goodness-of-fit among principals’ space leadership, school organizational change and teacher efficacy. The results revealed that school organizational change fully mediated, and had positive indirect effect on principals' space leadership and teacher efficacy. Suggestions had been made out from the results of this study for the reference of the education authority, decision-making of school administration, and further research.