Summary: | 博士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 工業教育與技術學系 === 102 === The purposes of this study was to explore the influence of transformational and transactional leadership behaviors of principals on teachers’ self-directed learning tendency, self-efficacy and involvement of professional development then to verify the model among variables in senior high schools.
This study adopted questionnaire survey to collect data. The population was teachers of senior high schools in Taiwan. A total of 639 valid data of questionnaire was collected from 34 schools which were selected by stratified sampling. According to multi sample group analysis, this study was divided into two groups which were teachers who in public and private school. The instruments of this study were multiple-leadership behaviors questionnaire, teachers’ self-directed learning tendency questionnaire, teachers’ self-efficacy questionnaire and teachers’ professional development attitude questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, multi sample group analysis and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM).
After data analysis, the conclusions of this study as follows:
1. According to multi sample group analysis, the leadership behaviors are significant difference between public and private schools’ principal.
2. There were significant correlated among principals’ transformational leadership behavior, teachers’ self-directed learning tendency, self-efficacy and involvement of professional development in the public schools.
3. There were significant correlated among principals’ transactional leadership behavior, teachers’ self-directed learning tendency, self-efficacy and involvement of professional development in the private schools.
4. Teachers’ self-directed learning and self-efficacy plays as mediating roles in the relationship among principals’ leadership behavior and involvement of professional development.
5. The model of the influence of transformational leadership of principals in public schools and transactional leadership of principals in private schools on teachers’ self-directed learning tendency, teachers’ self-efficacy and involvement of professional development fitted the data well and definitely clarify the causal effects among variables.
Key words: principals’ transformational leadership behavior, principals’ transactional leadership behavior, teachers’ self-directed learning tendency, teachers’ self-efficacy, attitude of teachers’ professional development.
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