School Health as the Mediator Variable: Determinants of the Principal Instructional Leadership Behavior

Sukarmin Sukarmin,Ishak Sin

doi:10.12973/eu-jer.10.3.1275

Abstract

<p style="text-align:justify">The primary purpose of this research was to determine the effect of principal instructional leadership behavior on several determinants: organizational commitment, efficacy, and teacher satisfaction through school health. Five instruments that had been used are the principal instructional management rating scale (PIMRS); organizational health inventory for elementary schools (OHI-E); online course questionnaire (OCQ); teacher satisfaction scale (TSS); teacher efficacy scale (TES). All of these instruments had high validity and reliability; with Cronbach’s alpha values of each was PIMRS (.83), OHI-E (.81), OCQ (.80), TSS (.86), and TES (.79). A total of 350 public primary school teachers in Surakarta had been selected as respondents in this study with satisfied random sampling. AMOS software version 6.0 is used to analyze CFA and SEM. The results of SEM analysis to the structural model built by the researcher was good, with Probability = .001; RMSEA = .043; GFI = .941; AGFI = .907; CMIN/DF = 1.522), so the relationship between the variables in the constructs was interpreted; (1) The Principal instructional leadership behavior had a significant direct influence on the school health, (2) The school health parameter had a significant direct influence on organizational commitment, efficacy, and teacher satisfaction, (3) The principal instructional leadership behavior did not have a significant direct effect on organizational commitment, efficacy, and teacher satisfaction through the variables and school health.</p>

Highlights

The concept of school-based management has been successfully developed in some developed countries, but it is still a new concept for education management in Indonesia
This study indicates that principal instructional leadership does not always have a positive effect on organizational commitment, efficacy, and teacher satisfaction
The relationship between structural variables is that the principal instructional leadership has a strong positive impact on school health

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Introduction

The concept of school-based management has been successfully developed in some developed countries, but it is still a new concept for education management in Indonesia. Education practitioners should improve under the circumstances and schools need in Indonesia. The principals' leadership in the school management model of school-based management is important so that the principal can apply a renewal effort in education (Iksan, 2002). The quality of a school depends on the principal's professional ability as a manager. Principals' leadership behavior has an essential role in regulating school activities (Garg & Rastogi, 2006). The principal has a vital role in formulating the curriculum and developing program progress to archive successful school (Mahmood, 1993)

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