| The purpose of this quantitative research was to see to what degree a relationship existed between servant leadership, classroom climate, and student achievement in a collegiate environment. This was a quantitative, correlational study. The foundational theories for this research included servant leadership and organizational climate that pertain to transformational follower development and unifying values within an organization to align behavior. The research questions for this study included: (R1) What was the relationship between teachers' servant leadership behaviors and classroom climate as reported by students? (R2) What was the relationship between servant leadership behavior and student achievement? (R3) To what extent was the relationship between servant leadership behavior and student achievement mediated by classroom climate? The data collection instruments for this study included The Servant Leadership Profile--Revised and the College and University Classroom Environment Inventory. The sample size was 18, composed of faculty at a private university in Northwest Pennsylvania. The resultant correlations between teacher servant leadership and both classroom climate and student achievement were not statistically significant (r = .407, rs = -.16, p = .25). Therefore, there was no definitive mediating effect of classroom climate. These results were not consistent with similar prior research at the primary and secondary levels of education, and thus raised questions regarding choice of instrumentation at the college level. This study sheds light on important variables and dynamics of researching these correlations in a collegiate environment.;Keywords: Servant leadership, classroom climate, student achievement, Servant Leadership Profile--Revised, questionnaire measures or organizational culture. |
