TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND INSTRUCTIONAL QUALITY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: A MODERATED MEDIATION ANALYSIS
TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND INSTRUCTIONAL QUALITY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: A MODERATED MEDIATION ANALYSIS
Author(s): Irena Burić, Maja Parmač Kovačić, Aleksandra HuićSubject(s): School education, Management and complex organizations, Health and medicine and law, Distance learning / e-learning, Pedagogy
Published by: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
Keywords: transformational school leadership; teacher effectiveness; teacher self-efficacy; digital competencies; moderated mediation;
Summary/Abstract: The school lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic pushed teachers to online teaching literally overnight, which put their performance at risk. Transformational school leadership (TSL), teacher self-efficacy (TSE) and digital competencies might have played a protective role in such burdening conditions. Therefore, the present study aimed to examine the mediating role of TSE in explaining the relationship between TSL and instructional quality. Additionally, the moderating role of digital competencies in explaining the interrelations between TSL and TSE as well as between TSE and instructional quality, or the proposed mediating mechanism, was tested. The study was conducted via online survey in Spring 2020 and involved 1655 Croatian teachers. The mediation and moderated mediation analyses revealed that TSL was positively related to instructional quality both directly and indirectly via TSE. Teacher digital competencies did not moderate the proposed relationships or the mediating mechanism.
Journal: Društvena istraživanja - Časopis za opća društvena pitanja
- Issue Year: 30/2021
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 181-202
- Page Count: 22
- Language: English