Based on the change-production-employee model proposed by Ekvall and Arvonen (1991), the present study developed a theoretical framework of creative leadership and constructed the Creative Leadership Scale for Elementary School Teachers. Eighteen elementary school teachers and education graduate students were recruited to receive semi-structured interviews. Content analysis indicated that the notion of creative leadership in elementary school teachers was congruent with the Ekvall and Arvonen¡¦s model. After content validity, the initial 37-item scale was administrated item analysis with a pretest sample consisting of 263 elementary school teachers. Item analysis reduced the initial scale to a 17-item formal scale. Exploratory factory analysis demonstrated a three-factor oblique model. In term of internal consistency aspect, Cronback¡¦s Alpha coefficient for the entire scale was .93. The coefficients of internal consistency for three subscales were .81 to .85. Later, the large sample which consisted of 1013 elementary school teachers was used to conduct confirmatory factor analysis and criterion-related validity. First-order orthogonal model, first-order oblique model, and second-oblique model were employed to conduct model comparisons in confirmatory factor analysis. The results indicated that the first-order oblique model was the most appropriate among the three models in terms of model fitness, in which the construct reliability coefficients were .82 to .85. The organizational innovative climate, creative teaching performance, and effectiveness of class management were used as criterion for validation. Findings in criterion-related validity revealed that the concurrent validity of the scale was satisfactory, showing creative leadership correlated positively with the criterions. Besides, sex differences and differences of advantageous hand were not observed. The scale was marginally associated with social desirability. Finally, future directions for scale validation and applications were discussed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0722109-165145 |
| Date | 22 July 2009 |
| Creators | Chao, Ying-hsien |
| Contributors | Ming-Charng Jeng, Wen-Bin Chiou, Hsueh-Hua Chuang |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0722109-165145 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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