The Effect of Principals Professional Devotion on Improving the Educational Performance of Schools and Teachers' Professional Ethics to Provide a Model in Education in Mazandaran Province

Abstract

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of teachers 'job commitment on improving the educational performance of schools and teachers' professional ethics to provide a model in education in Mazandaran province.Methodology: In terms of purpose, this research is an application that was conducted with a mixed approach (qualitative and quantitative) with an exploratory design. In the qualitative approach, the content analysis method was used and in the quantitative approach, the descriptive survey method was used. The statistical population consisted of 20 people in the qualitative section, senior managers and education experts of Mazandaran province and in the quantitative section, the teachers of education schools in Mazandaran province consisted of 33,567 people. Considering the saturation law, 10 people and in a small part, based on Cochran's formula, 380 people were selected as a statistical sample using stratified random sampling method according to the degree. To collect data, the researcher-made questionnaire of professional devotion with 55 questions, the questionnaire of educational performance Zandi (2013) with 25 questions, the researcher-made questionnaire of educational performance with 12 questions and the questionnaire of professional ethics Kadozir (2002) was used with 25 questions. The face and content validity of the instruments were approved by the supervisors and consultants and their construct validity was calculated with a factor load greater than 0.5 which was approved. And their combined reliability and Cronbach's alpha were also calculated above 0.7, which was confirmed. Exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equations were used to analyze the data.Findings: The results showed that the variable of job commitment has two dimensions "organizational and individual". The organizational dimension has six components (organizational climate, organizational justice, reward system, job security, management support, organizational culture) and the individual dimension has three components (commitment to work, job motivation and positive feeling about work) that the organizational dimension With a factor load of 0.977 it has a greater effect and an individual dimension with a factor load of 0.922 has a lower effect.Conclusion: Also, the results of structural equation testing showed that; The effect of principals 'professional devotion on improving the educational performance of schools and teachers' professional ethics in education in Mazandaran province is positive and significant, and principals 'professional devotion has the greatest impact on teachers' professional ethics. Also, the presented model has a suitable fit.