Structural modeling of the effect of interventions on the application levels of excellence plan with the mediating role of facilitation styles of middle school principals in Urmia city
Subject Areas : Education
Somayeh Khoshdel
1
,
Niloofar Mortezanejad
2
,
Maryam Sameri
3
1 - Department of Education, urmia branch, Islamic Azad University, Urmia. Iran
2 - Department of Education, urmia branch, Islamic Azad University, Urmia. Iran
3 - Educational Management, Department of Educational Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Urmia, Iran
Keywords: interventions, application levels, excellence plan, Facilitation styles, school principals,
Abstract :
Introduction: The growth and development of any country depends on its education system, and managers are among the most effective factors in the development of that system. A part of educational system reform programs focuses on empowering managers. Innovations and educational plans such as excellence plan help the educational system in this field. The present study was conducted with the aim of structural modeling of the impact of interventions on the application levels of the excellence plan with the mediating role of the facilitation styles of secondary school principals in Urmia city.
research methodology: The research method is applied and descriptive-correlational in terms of structural equation modeling. The statistical population includes all principals of the first and second year secondary schools in the six districts of Urmia city, with a number of 411 people. A stratified random method was used to select the research sample, and the sample size was determined by using Morgan's table to be 200 people, which 93 managers are women and 107 of them are men. In this research, the standard questionnaire of Hall and George (1999) styles of facilitating change, as well as researcher-made questionnaires of interventions and levels of application have been used. Validity and reliability of questionnaires have been checked through confirmatory factor analysis. Data analysis was done at two levels of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics.
Findings: The findings show that the interventions have a direct, positive and significant effect on the levels of use of managers. Also, interventions with the mediation of facilitation styles have an indirect, positive and significant effect on the application levels.
Conclusion: It seems that in order to identify the way of acting and how to behave in relation to innovation, managers should use appropriate actions and interventions to facilitate the implementation of change.
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