The Relationship between Background Variables and Empowerment of high school principals in the City of Isfahan
Subject Areas : Educational Science
Habibollah Goudarzi Douraki
1
,
hossein mehrdad
2
,
Ebrahim Pourhoseini
3
1 - PhD Student in Educational Administration, Khorramabad branch, Islamic Azad University, Khorramabad, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor of Educational Administration, Khorramabad branch, Islamic Azad University, Khorramabad, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor of Educational Administration, Khorramabad branch, Islamic Azad University, Khorramabad, Iran
Keywords: education, Empowerment of Directors, Background Variables,
Abstract :
The present paper mainly aims to study the background variables relationship (gender, education, age and service life years) with empowerment of the secondary intermediate-level directors of Isfahan during schooling year of 1397-98 (2018-2019). The research is being conducted descriptively and is of a correlational type and an applied one. The statistical population size includes 908 of all secondary intermediate-level directors of Isfahan, of whom 270 were selected as the sample size by applying multi-phased cluster sampling method based on Cochran formula Data collection tools included researcher-made questionnaire, dimensions and indices of which were obtained according to theoretical sources and interview with the elite; finally, empowerment of directors was established in 5 main dimensions and 10 components through exploratory factor analysis.Two educational administration professors (one male and one female) and one psychology professor approved of questionnaire validity and the reliability was obtained based on 0.79 Cronbach Alpha Test. Pearson correlational test and linear regression were applied for data analysis. Findings showed that background variables of gender, education, age and service life years built positive and a meaningful regression results relationship with empowerment of directors (p≤0.05). They simultaneously indicated that background variables can predict about 0.34 variance measure, that is empowerment.
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