The relationship between empowerment of teachers and student’s use of networks

Authors
Maryam Banahan 1
afsaneh Nirooie 2
1 Alzahra University
2 education organisation of Tehran
10.52547/erj.7.40.22
Abstract
The aim of the research was the study of the relationship between empowerment of teachers and student’s use of networks. The research community was every teachers and student of sixth grade of girls public schools which by using multistage cluster sampling method have been chosen from 100 persons of teachers and students from seven areas of Tehran fifth district. Data tool collection was psychological empowerment questionnaire and the amount of using from social networks questionnaire. Reliability of the tool was calculated and validated by using Cronbach's alpha. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics (Pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise regression analysis) and was analyzed by SPSS software. The results showed there is a negative and meaningful relationship between the components of teachers empowerment consist of meaningfulness, competency, autonomy, with the amount of student’s use of social networks and there is a positive and meaningful relationship between the effectiveness of teachers with student’s use of social networks. Competency as a variable explains 20/4 and effectiveness explains 23/7 Percent of the variance of social networking.
Keywords
psychological empowerment
Competency
effectiveness
Social networks
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