Determination and Validation of the 'Organizational Learning Capabilities' Scale in a New Context of Educational Institutes in Pakistan

Current trends in disruptive technologies and global migration are changing the landscape of education. Stakeholders around the world are meeting to discuss the need to transform schools from teaching organizations to learning organizations. Policy decisions require empirically tested instrumentatio...

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Published inJournal of Education and Educational Development Vol. 8; no. 2; pp. 270 - 295
Main Authors Hanson, Janet, Niqab, Muhammad, Bangert, Arthur
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Institute of Business Management, Department of Education 01.12.2021
Subjects
Case Studies
Decision Making
Educational Change
Educational Policy
Factor Structure
Feedback (Response)
Foreign Countries
Gender Differences
Information Technology
Instructional Leadership
Likert Scales
Public Schools
Secondary School Teachers
Systems Approach
Teacher Attitudes
Technology Integration
Transfer of Training
Transformational Leadership
Pakistan
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Summary:Current trends in disruptive technologies and global migration are changing the landscape of education. Stakeholders around the world are meeting to discuss the need to transform schools from teaching organizations to learning organizations. Policy decisions require empirically tested instrumentation that provides reliable data as feedback from faculty and is useful for measuring their school's organizational learning capability (OLC). The purpose of this quantitative study was to test the dimensions Jerez-Gomez et al.'s (2005) OLC survey in the context of educational institutes. Data were collected from teachers (n=150) out of 165 workings in public secondary schools (N=15) of Tehsil Wari district Dir Upper, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. Results of the SEM analysis showed the instrument a reliable operationalization of OLC using a four-factor structure; managerial commitment (MC), systems perspective (SP), openness and experimentation (EX), and knowledge transfer and integration (TR). Gender showed as moderating the relationships of the independent variables with OLS.
ISSN:2310-0869