Open Schools/Healthy Schools: Measuring Organizational ClimateIs your school a good, healthy place to work? Does the organizational climate contribute to academic achievement? Do you know how to evaluate the factors that can directly affect the effectiveness of education?
Open Schools//Healthy Schools offers the basis for answering these and other questions. The authors demonstrate the significant relationship that exists between school health and academic performance. They then present the measures, developed over many years of careful research, that can best test the organizational climate of any school. |
Contents
The Organizational Climate Description | 25 |
The Organizational Climate Description | 46 |
The Organizational Health Inventory | 64 |
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academic achievement academic emphasis administrators Alpha coefficients aspects average school basic beta climate variables closed climate Collegial Leadership conceptual consideration construct validity correlation culture Directive Behavior Disengaged educational elementary schools factor analysis factor structure faculty meetings faculty members faculty trust friendly frustrated goals Halpin and Croft health and climate health index healthy organizations healthy school high schools Initiating Structure institutional integrity instrument interactions intimacy intimate teacher managerial measure morale needs normative number of items occurs OCDQ-RS OHI-E organizational climate organizational commitment organizational culture Organizational Health Inventory original OCDQ pilot study predict Principal Influence professional Questionnaire regression relationships reliability resource influence resource support sample school climate school effectiveness school health school score second-order factor secondary schools social standard deviation standard scores student achievement subtest scores superiors Supportive Behavior Table Teacher Affiliation teacher commitment teaching tion trust in colleagues variance