A study on the development of moral leadership scale for the kindergarten principals

• Main Authors: Chun-yuan Chen, 鄭鈞元
• Other Authors: Shueh-chin Ting
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08762847816075606650

博士 === 國立臺南大學 === 教育經營與管理研究所博士班 === 101 === After reviewing relevant researches, this study found that the researches about school moral leadership are mainly focused on the field of primary and secondary schools, but studies taking kindergartens as subjects are very few. Second, many scholars believe that the view of multiple dimensions would be best while assessing moral leadership. However, which dimensions are enough to reveal moral leadership behavior of the kindergarten principals? Finally, the current measurement instruments of moral leadership are mainly derived from those used in the enterprise field, are they appropriate for kindergartens where females are an overwhelming majority? Accordingly, in order to solve the issues mentioned above, this study adopted a way of in-depth interview together with past literature. The purpose of this study was to find the dimensions suitable to describe moral leadership of kindergarten principals suitable and further set up a scale of moral leadership of kindergarten principals. Through in-depth interview, this study collected fifteen employees’ views toward moral leadership of their kindergarten principals from private kindergartens in Kaohsiung. Then, with qualitative analysis, this study induced initial items of the scale and invited experts and scholars to evaluate them to develop pre-test scale. Next, through purposive sampling, this study respectively collected 300 valid questionnaires in each two stages and used software SPSS 18.0 to carry out item analysis and exploratory factor analysis. Accordingly, this study revised the pre-test scale to form the formal scale. Following, collecting 350 valid questionnaires in accordance with purposive sampling and employing Lisrel 8.80 to carry out confirmatory factor analysis for the formal scale and comparing the structure of five competing models which were used to describe moral leadership of kindergarten principals. Finally, using organizational citizen behavior of teaching faculty as a criterion variable, this study then scrutinized criterion-related validity of the scale. The main findings of this study include that, first, the scale of moral leadership of kindergarten principals developed from this study has good reliability, convergent validity, discriminant validity and criterion-related validity; second, the testing result of five competing models shows that second-order and four-factor model is the most fit model, which means that moral leadership of the kindergarten principals is composed of four dimensions, humanity and care, fairness and justice, moral cultivation and professional morality.