A Study on the Relationships between Teachers’ Professional Learning Community, Organizational Commitment and Teachers’ Teaching Effectiveness

Authors

  • Jing-Feng Zhang
  • Chun-Te Hsin

Keywords:

organizational commitment, teachers' professional learning community, teachers' teaching effectiveness

Abstract

This study aimed to understand the relationships between teachers' professional learning communities, organizational commitment and teachers' teaching effectiveness. In this study, 686 primary school teachers were asked to fill in the questionnaire. The findings were as follows. There are significant differences between teachers’ teaching effectiveness in age, education level, years of working and position. Through typical factors, the variation of "teacher learning community" has 89.8% and 3.3% correlation with the variation of "teachers' organizational commitment"; it has 89.1% and 3.6% correlations with the variation of "teacher teaching effectiveness". Through typical factors, the variance of "teacher organizational commitment" has a 92.7% and 2.6% correlation with the variance of "teacher teaching effectiveness". Teachers' professional learning community and organizational commitment have 93.7% positive predicting ability to teachers' teaching effectiveness.

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Published

30.01.2023

How to Cite

Zhang, J.-F., & Hsin, C.-T. (2023). A Study on the Relationships between Teachers’ Professional Learning Community, Organizational Commitment and Teachers’ Teaching Effectiveness. ASEAN Journal of Research, 1(1). Retrieved from https://so03.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/KMR/article/view/265545

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