The Impact of School Culture in Mediating Teachers Innovation and Emotional Intelligence on School Effectiveness

摘要

The school effectiveness is influenced by interaction between external and internal factors. This research aims to examine the mediating effect of school culture between teacher concern innovation and emotional intelligence on school effectiveness. Questionnaires were distributed to 333 teachers of elementary school and analyzed using Structural Equation Models (SEM) with AMOS 18.0 Software. The results show that teacher concern innovation was significantly and positively related to school culture but correlate indirectly on school effectiveness. The positive relations between emotional intelligence and school culture and school effectiveness were also significant. It was found that school culture is able to mediate teacher concern innovation on school effectiveness. The other finding is that emotional intelligence and school culture have direct effect on school effectiveness. These findings suggest that the higher teacher concern on innovation and emotional intelligence promote the positive school culture and effectively improved the school education quality.