Organizational Climate Affecting Professional Learning Community in Schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office 15

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to study: 1) the level of organizational climate, 2) the level of professional learning community, 3) the relationship between organizational climate and professional learning community and 4) the predictors of organizational climate affecting professional learning community in schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office 15. There were totally 210 respondents selected five persons per school from 42 schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office 15. The sample consisted of a school administrator, a head of academic affair and 3 teachers from each school.The research instrument was a questionnaire with a 5-point response scale. The data were analyzed by means, standard deviations, correlation coefficients, and the Stepwise multiple regression analysis. The research findings were as follows:
1. The level of organizational climate, as a whole and individual aspect was at a high level.
2. The level of professional learning communities in schools, as a whole and individual aspect was at a high level.
3. The relationship between organizational climate and professional learning community in schools were significantly related positive at .01 level.
4. The predictors of organizational climate were two aspects: policy (X2) and structure (X1). The coefficient of prediction or prediction capability was at 52.00% with statistical significance at .01 level.