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Abstract：
The Principals’ Book Club is a popular form of principals’ professional learning community. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the benefits of principals’ book club and construct team learning indicators for principals’ book club consisting of five dimensions: (1)Team performance and satisfaction, (2)accountability, (3)commitment to purpose, (4)commitment to a common approach, and (5)complementary skills. A total of 227 principals in public elementary schools from northern Taiwan were involved in this study. Statistical methods and confirmatory factor analysis were adopted to analyze collected data. The main findings are as follows: (1)According to critical ratio analysis, the item discrimination is good. (2)The Cronbach α analysis shows good reliability. (3)The fit indexes such as SRMR, NFI, NNFI, CFI, IFI, PNFI, R2 all show good suitability and fitness of the dimensions and items. (4)The participation of principals' book club led to significant improvements in team learning effectiveness. We conclude that principals’ reading club is an effective tool in professional development for principals.
Keywords： principals’ book club, team learning indicator, professional learning community
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