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Teacher Motivation and Relationship Within School Contexts as Drivers of Urban Teacher Efficacy in Taipei City

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The efficacy of urban teachers has been an important concern of school administrators. This study explores how teacher’s intrinsic and extrinsic work motivation, relationships and school contexts affect teacher efficacy. The sources were surveys collected from elementary school teachers in Taipei City, Taiwan and data and demographic information collected from Education Statistical Data in Taipei City Government, Taiwan. The results of multilevel modeling indicated that school-level principal leadership and work environment enhance teaching. For teacher-level variables, only parent–teacher relationship has a significant influence on teacher efficacy. The implications and research limitations are discussed.

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  1. The population information for public elementary schools in Taipei City in 2013 included 11,001 teachers nested in 5756 classes nested in 153 elementary schools, and d. 13.27 student–teacher ratio.

  2. The populations of public elementary schools in Taipei City in 2014 included 2491 males (24.70%) and 7595 females (75.30%).

  3. If there were little or no variation in the outcome between higher level units, there would be no need for a multilevel analysis. The extent of variance that exists between versus within groups (homogeneity of variance) can be described by an intraclass correlation (Thomas and Heck 2001). If the ICC is substantial (e.g., > .057), it suggests that the groups are homogeneous and likely quite different (Heck and Thomas 2008).

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    Jun Yi Hsieh

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    Pei Wen Liao

  3. Institute of Educational Administration and Evaluation, University of Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

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Hsieh, J.Y., Liao, P.W. & Lee, Y.H. Teacher Motivation and Relationship Within School Contexts as Drivers of Urban Teacher Efficacy in Taipei City. Asia-Pacific Edu Res 31, 23–37 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40299-020-00535-9

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