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Teacher loyalty to the principal in selected Catholic elementary schools
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine teacher loyalty to the principal. The study was conducted in the Catholic elementary schools of the Archdiocese of Omaha, a 23-county area of northeast and central Nebraska that is under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Archbishop. Nearly 85% of the full-time teachers responded to the survey which included administrative and teacher variables as well as an eight-item questionnaire on teacher loyalty. The loyalty questionnaire, often called the Hoy Scale, was developed by Leonard Williams and Wayne Hoy. The Hoy Scale contains questions on the cognitive, affective, and behavioral concepts of teacher loyalty to the principal. In addition, interviews were conducted with the principals and selected teachers of the school faculties determined to be most loyal and least loyal. It was found, through the use of t-tests, that teachers who had a religiously professed woman as a principal reported themselves as more loyal than those whose principal was a lay person. There was no significant difference in reported teacher loyalty for those with a lay male or lay female principal. Reported teacher loyalty was not significantly different for faculties in urban or rural areas and large or small schools. The length of the principal's experience had no effect on teacher loyalty to the principal. Whether religiously professed women teachers or lay women teachers or lay men teachers had more effect on teacher loyalty was tested. In addition, tests were conducted on whether Catholic or non-Catholic teachers and the years of teaching experience had a significant effect on teacher loyalty. Results also indicated that religiously professed women teachers, teachers who were members of the Catholic Church, and teachers who received their degree at a Catholic college/university were significantly more likely to report themselves loyal to their principals.
Subject Area
School administration|Elementary education
Recommended Citation
Gubbels, Luvern Anthony, "Teacher loyalty to the principal in selected Catholic elementary schools" (1987). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI8810318.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI8810318