Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 教育政策與領導研究所 === 92 === The aim of this study is to synthesize the researches on the principals'''' instructional leadership of elementary/secondary schools. Here are the research steps. Firstly, specify the primary studies, which address principals'''' instructional leadership. Next, describe the characteristics found in the synthesis population and constructing the research hypotheses inventory. Finally, investigate the educators with various background for their perception about the principals'''' instructional leadership.
The researches are acquired from the Chinese electronic databases. After the collections of the 26 studies, meta-analyses are conducted on research hypotheses occurring five times or more. Hedges & Olkins'''' meta-analysis procedures are conducted by Comprehensive Meta-analysis 1.0 statistic software.
According to the results of synthesis analyses, the conclusions are as follows:
1.The male educators tend to perceive a higher degree for the principals'''' instructional leadership than the female educators do.
(1)There is no significant difference for perceiving the principals'''' instructional leadership between the principals of different gender. However, the perception of the male teachers is higher than the female teachers.
(2)The different perception about the principals'''' instructional leadership of the educators of different gender doesn''''t vary wherever in Taipei area or Taoyuan , Hsinchu, Miaoli area.
(3)The different perception about the principals'''' instructional leadership of the secondary schools'''' educators with different gender is larger than the elementary schools'''' educators with different gender.
2.The educators with experiences over 5 years perceive a higher degree of the principals'''' instructional leadership than the educators with experiences of 5 and below 5 years.
(1)There is no significant difference for perceiving the principals'''' instructional leadership between the principals with different years of experience.
(2)The teachers with experiences over 5 years tend to perceive a higher degree of the principals'''' instructional leadership than those who are with experiences of 5 and below 5 years.
3.The educators with the educational background of the graduate school tend to perceive a higher degree of the principals'''' instructional leadership than those who have the background of under graduate.
(1)There is no significant difference for perceiving the principals'''' instructional leadership between the principals with the different educational background.
(2)The teachers with the educational background of the graduate school tend to perceive a higher degree of principals'''' instructional leadership than those who have the background of under graduate.
4.The principals tend to perceive a higher degree of the principals'''' instructional leadership than what the teachers perceive.
5.The teachers, who also serve as the administrators , tend to have a higher perception of the principals'''' instructional leadership than those teachers who are with sole responsibility for teaching.
6.The educators in smaller schools (of 24 and under 24 classes) tend to perceive a higher degree of the principals'''' instructional leadership than those who serve in bigger schools (over 24 classes) do.
(1)The principals in schools of different scale do not have a significant difference in their perception of principals'''' instructional leadership.
(2)The teachers in smaller schools (of 24 and under 24 classes) tend to perceive a higher degree of principals'''' instructional leadership than those who teach in larger schools (over 24 classes) do.
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