A Study on Relationships between Organizational Change and School Effectiveness of Vocational High Schools in Taipei City

[[abstract]]The purposes of this study were to explore the relationships between organizational change and school effectiveness of vocational high schools in Taipei city. In order to answer the research questions, the survey research method was adopted to collect pertinent data. Based on the literature review, the “Questionnaire of Vocational High School Organizational Change ” and the “Questionnaire of Vocational High School Effectiveness” were developed. 618 subjects were randomly sampling from 17 schools in Taipei city, including principals, department deans, department assistant deans, homeroom teachers and non-homeroom teachers of vocational high school. 541 samples returned the questionnaires. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS 15.0 for Windows. According the literature review and the questionnaire research, some conclusions were inducted as follows: 1. The teachers of vocational high schools perceived an upper level on organizational change and school effectiveness. 2. The teachers of vocational high schools had different perception of organizational change in terms of demographic variables. 3. The teachers of vocational high schools had different perception of school effectiveness among different backgrounds. 4. There were positive significant correlations among all dimensions of organizational change and school effectiveness. 5. Organizational change had predicative efficacy for all the dimensions of school effectiveness. Based on the conclusions, several recommendations were made for the educational authorities concerned and vocational high schools’ administrators.