Journal of Education and Psychology

Abstract

The transformative agency on unreasonable role expectation in Taiwan adopted by elementary school teachers were studied. Twelve subjects were interviewed in order to develop an inventory, “the Transformation of Elementary School Teachers on Unreasonable Role Expectation”, for subsequent survey study in which 1287 subjects were surveyed. The data obtained from survey study were statistically analyzed by Frequencies, and MANOVA. The conclusions of this study are as follows:

1. The transformation of Taiwanese elementary school teachers on unreasonable role expectation includes five elements, Naming, Appraising, Directing, Performing and Optimizing (NADPO).
2. A degree of middle-high level is founded for the elementary school teachers to adopt NADPO.
3. The highest level is the “Appraising” and the lowest level is “Performing” among the five elements, NADPO, adopted by subjects.
4. Significant differences for adopting NADPO are existed among subjects with different genders, qualification, posts, move or not and educational training.
5. Non-significant differences for adopting NADPO are found among subjects with different years of service, leave job or not, marriage or not, having children or not, districts of school, scale of school and scale of class.
6. The possible factors influencing elementary school teachers for adopting NADPO are power, professional ability, commitment to teaching, and loading of family affairs of subjects.

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