Predicting School Innovation: The Role of Academic Press and Collective Efficacy, Mediated by Faculty Trust

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper was to examine the role of academic press (AP), collective ‎teacher efficacy (CTE), and faculty trust (FT) in predicting school innovation (SI). In ‎addition, we explored the extent to which FT mediates the association between AP and ‎CTE with SI. In all, 1009 teachers from 79 schools in northern Israel completed ‎anonymous self-report questionnaires about AO and innovation. Aggregation, reliability, ‎descriptive statistics, bi-variate correlations, and SEM analyses were performed to analyze ‎the data. Results show that the AO constructs were positively correlated, and that trust ‎mediates the relationship between CTE and SI. The study results confirm that AO has ‎significant predictive value in school innovation, and highlight the importance of trust in ‎achieving SI.‎

Authors

• Nitza Schwabsky, Gordon College of Education

• Ufuk Erdogan, Firat University

• Megan Tschannen-Moran, College of William and Mary