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A Study of the Relationship among School-Based Management, Organizational Climate and School Effectiveness in Elementary Schools in Kaohsiung City.

Abstract
The purpose of this study aims to analyze the relationship among school-based management, organizational climate and school effectiveness in elementary schools, so as to provide reference for carrying out school-based management, improving organizational climate, and promoting school effectiveness to the education authorities and elementary schools.
The purposes of this study are as follows a) to understand current status of school-based management, organizational climate and school effectiveness in elementary schools in Kaohsiung City,b) to discuss the discrepancy of school-based management, organizational climate and school effectiveness through examining the backgrounds of each school,c) to investigate the relationship among school-based management, organizational climate and school effectiveness, and d) to offer suggestions for schools, principals and teachers.
Questionnaire survey was adopted as the research method of this study. The samples are 915 elementary school teachers in Kaohsiung City. Data were analyzed by item analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, t-test, ANOVA, and Pearson Product-Moment Correlation and Stepwise Multiple Regression Analysis.
The findings of this study are as follows:
1.The elementary school teachers in Kaohsiung City have high appreciation of school-based management.
2.The elementary school teachers have positive perception of school organizational climate, of which ¡§the open climate¡¨ comprises 34.38¢Mand ¡§the closed climate¡¨ comprises 30.75¢M.
3.The teachers¡¦ perception of school effectiveness in elementary schools is good now.
4.Teachers¡¦ perception of school-based management is affected by gender, work experience, posts, school locations and school ages, but not by levels of education they have received or school size.
5.There were significant differences in the teachers¡¦ perception of organizational climate with gender, work experience, administrative posts, school sizes, levels of education, school locations and school history.
6.There were significant differences in the teachers¡¦ perception of school effectiveness with gender, work experience, posts, school sizes, school locations and school history, but no difference with levels of education.
7.There is a positive relationship between school-based management and school effectiveness.
8.The more open the school¡¦s organizational climate is, the higher school effectiveness the school has.
9.The higher the school-based management is, the better the school has organizational climate.
10.The school organizational climate has better prediction of school effectiveness than the school-based management. The most significant prediction is the principal¡¦s supportive behavior.
Based on the results of the study, suggestions for educational authorities, principals, teachers and future research are proposed.
keywords¡GSchool-Based Management, Organizational Climate , School Effectiveness

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0728106-152053
Date28 July 2006
CreatorsLin, Kuei-Fen
Contributorsnone, none, Ching-Hwa Tsai
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Formatapplication/pdf
Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0728106-152053
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