- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- Teacher empowerment in relation to principal leadership styles, school innovation, and teacher demographics, 1998
- Creator:
- McGregor, Agnes Holmes
- Date of Original:
- 1998-05-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
dissertations - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- This dissertation proposed to examine the relationships among teacher empowerment perceptions, school innovations, principal leadership style, and teacher demographics. Innovations were introduced in schools through the Division of Instruction. The study determined if school innovations contributed more to teacher empowerment than the principal leadership style contributed to teacher empowerment, while controlling for teacher demographics. Teacher perceptions about empowerment were surveyed by a questionnaire in a purposive sample of schools in a large Atlanta metropolitan school district. There were eight control schools and nine sample schools consisting of three schools in each of the three innovation types. In a one-way analysis of variance, there were no significant differences in the mean teacher empowerment scores among innovative and control schools. In a factor analysis of the data, principal leadership and teacher empowerment were placed in the same factor; while in a regression analysis of the data, principal leadership style was the only significant predictor of teacher empowerment. The main conclusion of the study is that principal leadership styles had a singular significant influence on teacher empowerment in comparison to school innovation types and teacher demographics. School innovation and teacher demographics were not significantly related to teacher empowerment.
Degree type: dissertation
Degree name: Doctor of Education (EdD)
Department: Department of Educational Leadership
Advisor: Tucker, Null - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1998_mcgregor_agnes_holmes.pdf
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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