Moreno Alonso, Edward Ramon. Dowling College, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2002. 3075402.
During the last eight years, the Government of Puerto Rico has been developing and implementing a major reform effort to restructure the Island's educational system. The reform has changed the way that public education traditionally operated in Puerto Rico.
On June 16, 1993, Law No. 18, the “Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Education Organic Law,” was approved in response to the request of principals, teachers, and parents of the public education system who voiced a need for autonomy in order to provide a better education for the children of Puerto Rico.
This study was to determine the relationship between school council members' attitudes towards collaboration as measured by their sense of autonomy, power, exchange, and formality and their satisfaction with their school council's role as determined by the degree of responsibility, the quality of their interpersonal relationships, and the recognition that school council members receive from their participation in school councils.
The results demonstrated that the levels of collaboration and satisfaction perceived by the five groups that comprised the school council were quite similar. In other words, the statistical analyses evidenced a positive relationship between these factors, thus suggesting that collaboration and satisfaction go hand in hand in the school council environment.
However, this relationship varied somewhat across the five groups that comprised the school council. In general, the results suggest that higher levels of collaboration lead to more satisfaction, and that council members who are satisfied with the work they do tend to collaborate more.