Purpose

Due to the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, primary and secondary schools worldwide are deploying online teaching/learning practices, fostering and thus innovation practices. The purpose of this study is to determine the degree to which practices reflecting educational innovation are implemented in the Greek public primary and secondary schools operating under conditions characterized by the COVID-19 pandemic. Determining the relationship among these educational innovation practices is also an aim of the present study.

Design/methodology/approach

A research study was conducted in the Greek public primary and secondary schools. 522 teachers fully completed a structured questionnaire. Descriptive statistics, exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling were applied to analyze the data.

Findings

The findings reveal that administration-related innovation practices, teaching-related innovation practices and online teaching/learning practices are implemented to some extent in primary and secondary schools in Greece, but there is still scope for continued development. The online teaching/learning practices set the foundations for further developing a culture of fully adopting other educational innovation practices in these schools to improve education.

Originality/value

Limited research concerning educational innovation practices has focused on primary and secondary schools. The need for more studies on teaching and learning innovations that have resulted from the COVID-19 crisis is highlighted by the literature. The results of this study support the fact that online teaching/learning implemented in primary and secondary schools is positively associated with administration-related and teaching-related innovation practices, concluding that this forced change in the educational process can act as a catalyst for more changes and innovative actions.

中文翻译：

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COVID-19大流行期间中小学的教育创新实践

目的

由于 2019 年冠状病毒 (COVID-19) 大流行，世界各地的中小学正在部署在线教学/学习实践，从而促进创新实践。本研究的目的是确定在以 COVID-19 大流行为特征的条件下运营的希腊公立中小学中，反映教育创新的实践的实施程度。确定这些教育创新实践之间的关系也是本研究的一个目的。

设计/方法论/途径

在希腊公立小学和中学进行了一项研究。522 名教师完整填写了结构化调查问卷。应用描述性统计、探索性因素分析和结构方程模型来分析数据。

发现

调查结果显示，希腊中小学行政创新实践、教学创新实践和在线教学实践均有一定程度的实施，但仍有持续发展的空间。在线教学/学习实践为进一步发展这些学校充分采用其他教育创新实践来改善教育的文化奠定了基础。

原创性/价值

关于教育创新实践的研究有限，主要集中在中小学。文献强调需要对 COVID-19 危机带来的教学创新进行更多研究。这项研究的结果支持了这样一个事实，即中小学实施的在线教学与行政相关和教学相关的创新实践呈正相关，得出的结论是，教育过程中的这种被迫改变可以成为更多变革的催化剂和创新行动。