The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of campus space aesthetics-making and teacher leadership on school characteristics of elementary schools in Taipei City, aiming at campus space aesthetics-making, teacher leadership and school characteristics their current situation, differences and correlations, furthermore, verifying the established structural equation modeling (SEM) among them.
The first step of this study was to gather and investigate domestic and foreign relevant literature as a theoretical basis for designing a questionnaire. This study recruited public elementary school educators in Taipei City as the participant. By using SPSS and AMOS, the data was analyzed by mean, standard deviation, independent sample t-test, one factor analysis of variance (ANOVA), Pearson correlation analysis, and SEM.
According to the results of the study, the conclusions were as follows:
1.The educators of elementary schools in Taipei City hold a positive attitude toward campus space aesthetics-making, teacher leadership and school characteristics, which shows that campus space aesthetics-making, teacher leadership and school characteristics of elementary schools in Taipei City interacted well in this city.
2.The educators of elementary schools in Taipei City have higher cognition for the needs of students’ learning than the needs of personal growth, which shows that the educators put more emphasis on students’ learning than theirs.
3.The male educators of elementary schools in Taipei City have higher cognition on the campus space aesthetics-making, teacher leadership and school characteristics than the female educators.
4.The educators of elementary schools in Taipei City over 50 years old have higher cognition on the campus space aesthetics-making, teacher leadership and school characteristics.
5.The educators of elementary schools in Taipei City who have served over 26 years have higher degree of cognition on the campus space aesthetics-making.
6.The educators of elementary schools in Taipei City who have higher education background show no significant differences, quite unanimous on their view on the campus space aesthetics-making and teacher leadership.
7.The principals and teachers with administrative position have higher degree of cognition on the campus space aesthetics-making, teacher leadership and school characteristics.
8.The educators of elementary schools in Taipei City who have participated in the teachers’ professional learning group, inner or outer school study group or inter-school allies, special learning areas, the advisory group on important issues or other professional development group also have higher degree of cognition on the campus space aesthetics-making, teacher leadership and school characteristics.
9.The educators of elementary schools in the Xinyi District of Taipei City have lower degree of cognition on the campus space aesthetics-making, teacher leadership and school characteristics, which needs attention.
10.The educators of elementary schools in Taipei City whose school under 12 classes have the highest level of cognition on the campus space aesthetics-making, teacher leadership and school characteristics among surveyed.
11.The educators of elementary schools in Taipei City whose school year under 25 years are higher than school year over 75 years in cognition of the campus space aesthetics-making, teacher leadership and school characteristics.
12.The educators of elementary schools in Taipei City whose schools have executed the school renovation project budget under ten billions are higher than those budgets between ten billions and twenty billions in cognition of the campus space aesthetics-making, teacher leadership and school characteristics.
13.The educators of elementary schools in Taipei City whose schools have executed project have higher degree of cognition on the campus space aesthetics-making, teacher leadership and school characteristics.
14.The educators of elementary schools in Taipei City whose schools have won Taipei Education 111 Benchmark School certificate, Quality School awards or Outstanding Teaching awards from the Ministry of Education have higher degree of cognition in most aspects on the campus space aesthetics-making, teacher leadership and school characteristics.
15.The elementary schools in Taipei City, their campus space aesthetics-making, teacher leadership and school characteristics these three elements have reached middle and high positive correlations. The results show the better the campus space aesthetics-making, the better the teacher leadership present; the better the campus space aesthetics-making, the better the school characteristics show; the better teacher leadership present, the better the school characteristics be established.
16.The campus space aesthetics-making, teacher leadership and school characteristics of the elementary schools in Taipei City, its structural equation modeling (SEM) obtained the great support; besides, the teacher leadership has the effects of mediator, that is, through teacher leadership could bring the educational effects which brought from the campus space aesthetics-making into full play.
Based on the conclusions of the present study, the related suggestions were offered to education authorities, school educators for further reference and future research.