| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 學校行政碩士在職專班 === 105 === The study aims to tap into the current situation of Taipei municipal junior high schools in terms of three aspects – principal positive leadership, teacher emotional labor, and school effectiveness. It also compares and analyzes junior high school teachers’ perceptions of the three aspects considering the teachers’ different background characteristics. Most importantly, the study explores the relationships among those three aspects of the schools.
In order to conduct the study, a statistical survey was carried out, with a total of 552 questionnaires distributed to Taipei municipal junior high school teachers. In the end, 495 questionnaires were returned, but only 474 were valid responses – a response rate of 85.86%. The acquired data were later processed through IBM SPSS Statistics 22.0, for performing descriptive statistics, an independent samples t-test, a one-way analysis of variance, and carrying out Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis.
The results are as follows:
1.The degree to which Taipei municipal junior high school teachers perceive principal positive leadership styles is middle-high; among the different aspects of principal positive leadership, “engaging in positive communication” is the most perceived one while the aspect of “reinforcing positive meanings” is the least perceived.
2.The degree to which Taipei municipal junior high school teachers perceive their emotional labor is middle-high; among the different aspects of teacher emotional labor, “basic emotional expression” is the most perceived one while the aspect of “the amount of variety of emotions” is the least perceived.
3.The degree to which Taipei municipal junior high school teachers perceive school effectiveness is middle-high; among the different aspects of school effectiveness, “teachers’ teaching effectiveness” is the most perceived one while the aspect of “students’ learning achievement” is the least perceived.
4.Taipei municipal junior high school teachers’ perceptions of principal positive leadership can vary greatly with the teachers’ gender, age, current positions, seniority in school, the principals’ gender, school size, and school history.
5.Taipei municipal junior high school teachers’ perceptions of their emotional labor can vary greatly with school size.
6.Taipei municipal junior high school teachers’ perceptions of school effectiveness can vary greatly with the teachers’ gender, current positions, the principals’ gender, and school history.
7.Principal positive leadership, teacher emotional labor, and school effectiveness correlate positively with each other.
8.Principal positive leadership and teacher emotional labor can be used to predict school effectiveness; the strategy of principal positive leadership – “reinforcing positive meanings” – is the best predictor.
Based on the above results, the study wraps up with concrete suggestions for institutions of educational administration, principals and teachers of junior high schools, as well as future research.
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