Factors Affecting the Professional Leadership of Environmental Design Teachers in Public Universities in Guangdong Province

Abstract

           The objectives of this research were: (1) to study factors affecting teachers’ professional leadership, (2) to study the mediating effect of teachers’ leadership on the relationship between factors and teachers’ professional leadership (3) to test the relationship model fit to the empirical data.
          Population in this research were teachers majoring in environmental design in public universities in Guangdong Province. Sample were selected by using stratified random sampling method, sample sized were 787 teachers majoring in environmental design in 21 of 38 public universities in Guangdong Province. According to the design of this study, a sample population of no less than 555 people was calculated using G*Power.555 valid questionnaires were collected. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation model were used to analyze and statistical data.
          The research finding showed that: (1) There were two main factors or second-order factors that affecting teachers’ professional leadership, learning ability and teachers’ leadership. Learning ability which were composed of 2 sub factors or first-order factors, teaching ability and scientific research ability. Teachers’ leadership were composed of 2 sub-factors or first-order factors, personal characteristics, and organizational management ability. (2) Teachers’ leadership had no mediating effects on the relationship between factors and teachers’ professional leadership. (3) The relationship model fit well to the empirical data (c2/df = 2.694, CFI = 0.985, TLI = 0.983, RMSEA = 0.055).