THE ROLE OF SCHOOL CULTURE IN MEDIATING TEACHERS CONCERNS ON INNOVATION AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ON SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS
Sri Rahayu, Arief Rahman Hakim, Iskandar Ladamay
Pendidikan Guru Sekolah Dasar, Universitas Kanjuruhan Malang
Abstract
School effectiveness is not only seen from the aspect of completeness facility and infrastructure, but more determined by educational management, including the teachers and students expectation to achieve the great learning outcome through the learning process. The purpose of this research is to find the significant relationship directly and indirectly between variables of teacher concern for innovation, emotional intelligence, school culture on school effectiveness. Sample of this research were 333 teachers of State Elementary School in Malang City. Collecting data used questionnaire with Likert scale. Data analysis used Structural Equation Models (SEM) with AMOS 18.0 Software. The analysis results show that school culture could mediate the influence of teachers care of innovation and emotional intelligence on school effectiveness. The stronger contribution of school cultur indicator configurate teachers concern for innovation and emotional intelligence on school effectiveness are organizational structure and focus on students with indicated by loading factor value of 7,91. This condition shows that the teacher must be able to foster awareness of the demands of innovation and adapt with environment, so can create the intimate situation in the class. Thereby, the positive school culture will be created and it can improve the school effectiveness.
Keywords: innovation, emotional intelligence, school culture, and school effectiveness
Topic: Other Areas of Education