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IJIET 2015 Vol.5(5): 319-325 ISSN: 2010-3689
DOI: 10.7763/IJIET.2015.V5.523

Students’ Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Their Homeroom Teachers’ Leadership and Classroom Management at Vocational High Schools

Chin-Chang Wu, Fang-Pin Lai, Chia-Ling Shih, and Chin-Wen Liao

Abstract—This study explores how Vocational High School students perceive their homeroom teachers’ performance in leadership and classroom management. The conclusions from these are below: 1) Homeroom teachers from central Taiwan’s Vocational High Schools usually strengthened their leadership through encouragement, but seldom through charismatic influence. 2) Out of all the effective classroom management perspectives, the aforementioned teachers performed best in classroom discipline, but needed to improve the classroom climate. 3) The female freshmen and sophomores majoring in business or home economics at the aforementioned Vocational High Schools, was the subgroup that had more favorable perceptions of their homeroom teachers’ leadership. 4) The female freshmen and sophomores majoring in business or home economics at the aforementioned Vocational High Schools was also the subgroup that had more favorable perceptions of their homeroom teachers’ classroom management effectiveness. 5) There is a significantly positive correlation between the aforementioned homeroom teachers’ charismatic influence and teacher-student interactions. 6) The best predictor for the aforementioned homeroom teachers’ effective classroom management was charismatic influence.

Index Terms—Vocational high school students, homeroom teachers, classroom-teacher leadership, classroom management effectiveness.

The authors are with the Department of Industrial Education and Technology at National Changhua University of Education (NCUE), Taiwan (e-mail: wcc1102@yahoo.com.tw.com, tcwliao@cc.ncue.edu.tw, yd3174@gmail.com, yi2323222@yahoo.com.tw).

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Cite: Chin-Chang Wu, Fang-Pin Lai, Chia-Ling Shih, and Chin-Wen Liao, "Students’ Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Their Homeroom Teachers’ Leadership and Classroom Management at Vocational High Schools," International Journal of Information and Education Technology vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 319-325, 2015.

General Information

  • ISSN: 2010-3689 (Online)
  • Abbreviated Title: Int. J. Inf. Educ. Technol.
  • Frequency: Monthly
  • DOI: 10.18178/IJIET
  • Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Steve Thatcher
  • Managing Editor: Ms. Nancy Y. Liu
  • Abstracting/ Indexing: Scopus (CiteScore 2022: 2.0), INSPEC (IET), UGC-CARE List (India), CNKI, EBSCO, Google Scholar
  • E-mail: ijiet@ejournal.net

 

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