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ERIC Number: ED154529
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1971-Jul
Pages: 95
Abstractor: N/A
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An Assessment of Factors Affecting the Organizational Climate of Hawaii Elementary Schools.
Amin, Aminullah; Glenn, Charles E.
The problem undertaken by this study was to determine what, if any, relationships exist between the organizational climates of selected schools, as measured by the Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire (OCDQ), and the scores of teachers on Form E of the Rokeach Dogmatism Scale. The study was conducted in eight Hawaii public elementary schools in one district-complex, which supposed that these schools had a commonality in environmental, socioeconomic, and operational factors. It must be kept in mind that the findings were limited to those perceptions and beliefs held by the teachers in the selected schools, that the OCDQ was adapted for the study, and that the climates of the selected schools were not compared to a normative sample, rather they were described in terms of their relative position within the sample as well as in terms of six protypic profiles developed in an earlier study. Despite the commonalities of the schools, the OCDQ did identify schools with organizational climates along the continuum from "open" to "closed." Regardless of the school's identified climate, most of the responding teachers scored low on the belief systems inventory and tended toward flexibility or open-mindedness. (Author/IRT)
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Sponsor: Hawaii State Dept. of Education, Honolulu.
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire
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