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The Interrelations among Teachers'Leadership Style, Fifth to Sixth Graders¡¦ Learning Motivation and Their Academic Performance

Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among the teachers¡¦ leadership styles, the students¡¦ learning motivation and the students¡¦ academic performance. The subjects were 5th and 6th graders chosen from six classes. The Teacher¡¦s Transactional and Transformational Leadership Style Inventory, and The Student¡¦s Achievement Motive Inventory were employed as the instruments. The data was analyzed by using descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA and Person Correlation.
Five major conclusions were listed below¡G
1.The female students¡¦ learning motivation is higher than the male¡¦s. However,there is no significant gender difference on academic performance.
For Transactional Leadership, teachers¡¦ active managentment by exception, passive managentment by exception, contingent reward were shown in the study, especially active managentment by exception. For Transformational Leadership, teachers¡¦ intellectual stimulation, charisma, individualized consideration, inspiration were exhibited in the study, especially charisma and intellectual stimulation.
2.For Transactional Leadership,"Contingent reward" shows middle correlation with students¡¦ learning motivation, while passive management by exception exhibits negavite correlation with students¡¦ learning motivation. For Transformational Leadership, inspiration, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration, charisma all exhibit middle positive correlation with learning motivation.
3.Teachers¡¦ leadership style was negatively and significantly associated with the students¡¦ academic performance for 5th and 6th graders .
4.Learning motivation was negatively and significantly associated with academic performance for 5th and 6th graders.
5.Except Transactional Leadership¡¦s passive administration, Transactional Leadership shows middle positive correlation with Transformational Leadership.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0719107-151624
Date19 July 2007
CreatorsHUNG, CHIN-CHUN
Contributorsnone, none, none
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0719107-151624
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