The Relationship between Teacher’s Academic Optimism and Organizational Health with School Effectiveness in Elementary Board of Trustee’s andState-Run Schools

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Baneh Education, MA in Elementary Education, Saghez Branch, Islamic Azad University, Saghez, Iran

2 Department of Education, Saghez Branch, Islamic Azad University, Saghez, Iran

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between teachers' optimism and organizational health with school Effectiveness in elementary board of trustee’s schools and state-run schools in Baneh in academic year 2017-2018. The statistical population of the study consisted of all elementary school teachers (429) who were teaching at elementary schools. Sample size was 201 people selected basedonKerjci & Morgan, (1970). The results showed that there is a statistically significant correlation between teachers' academic optimism and organizational health with the school effectiveness (P <0.01), between the components of academic optimism with the school effectivenesswas also significant(P <0.05) and there was a significant correlation between organizational health components andschools’ effectiveness (P <0.05).The results of the t-test showed that theonly difference between the State-Run Schools and the board of trustees wasthe school effectiveness variable.Finally, the results of the regression test showed that only organizational health was able to predict academic optimism in the state-run and board of trustee’s schools.

Keywords