A Study on the Relationship between Principals’ Curriculum Leadership and Teachers’ Empowerment in Junior High Schools

本研究旨在探討國民中學校長課程領導與教師賦權增能之關係，希望藉由理論探討與實徵研究的結果，提出建議作為校長推動課程領導與提升教師賦權增能的參考。 本研究採用問卷調查法，以台北市、台北縣及宜蘭縣共計抽取57所公立國民中學的880位正式教師為研究對象，有效問卷595份，問卷回收後以描述統計分析、t考驗、單因子變異數分析、典型相關分析，多元逐步迴歸分析等統計方法進行資料分析。 本研究之主要研究發現歸納如下： 一、國民中學校長課程領導運用「人群關係」頻率最高。 二、國民中學校長課程領導於競值架構下呈現均衡發展。 三、國民中學教師賦權增能整體表現良好，「自我效能」表現最佳，「參與決策」最顯不足。 四、教師對校長課程領導的知覺會因為教師的性別、職務、年齡及年資的不同而有所差異。 五、規模十二班以下的國民中學教師對校長課程領導感受最高，台北市國民中學校長最重視課程領導。 六、教師對賦權增能的知覺會因為教師的性別、職務、年齡及年資的不同而有所差異。 七、國民中學校長課程領導風格以「人群關係」對教師賦權增能的預測力最高。 八、國民中學校長課程領導確實有助於提升教師賦權增能。 最後，本研究根據上述發現針對教育實務層面與未來研究提出具體建議以供參考。Analyzing the differences of educators’ perception toward principals’ curriculum leadership and teachers' empowerment in different background variables, the purpose of this study is to inquire the relationship between principals' curriculum leadership and teachers' empowerment in junior high school. With the results of theoretical studies and empirical findings, this study provides some suggestions for promoting “principals’ curriculum leadership” and “teachers' empowerment”. Using a questionnaire, this study conducts a survey on 880 teachers from 57 public junior high schools in YI-Lan county and Taipei County. Among them 595 valid questionnaires from teachers were compiled. The returned data were analyzed by statistical methods including mean, standard deviation, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s product-moment correlation, canonical correlation, and multiple stepwise regression analysis. Our main findings are concluded as follows: 1. The highest frequency of teachers’ perception on principals’ curriculum leadership in junior high school is “relation of people”. 2. There is a balance development of the four styles in competing values framework of junior high school. 3. Junior high school teachers perform well in “teacher empowerment” as a whole, while “self-efficiency” performs the best; however, “making decision” performs obviously insufficient. 4. Those teachers who are male, senior, directors, and from small size schools, are aware of better principals’ curriculum leadership of the principal. 5. The teachers in junior high schools with less than twelve classes feel the principals’ curriculum leadership the most. The principals from schools in Taipei emphasize curriculum leadership the most. 6. The teachers’ perception toward empowerment is different because of their gender, position, age, and career. 7. Among all dimensions of principals’curriculum leadership, the best prediction to teachers’ empowerment is promoting “relation of people”. 8. Principals' curriculum leadership into practice is indeed helpful to improve teachers' empowerment. Finally, some suggestions are proposed based on the aforementioned conclusions for further studies and for the practice of education