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Duff, Megan; Bowers, Alex J. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2022
The purpose of this study is to identify a typology of school organizational capacities using teachers' perceptions of school organizational context. Employing a sample of New York City schools serving students in grades 3-8 (n = 1,289), we perform a 3-step latent class analysis (LCA). We identify six subgroups of schools: "versatile…
Descriptors: School Organization, Teacher Attitudes, Institutional Characteristics, Student Characteristics
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Boyce, Jared; Bowers, Alex J. – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2018
This study investigated the differences between how individual teachers perceive leadership for learning and how teachers collectively perceive leadership for learning, using a large nationally generalizable data-set of 7070 schools from the National Center for Education Statistics 2011-2012 Schools and Staffing Survey. This study used…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Elementary Secondary Education, National Surveys, Factor Analysis
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Boyce, Jared; Bowers, Alex J. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2018
Purpose: Instructional leadership has been an active area of educational administration research over the past 30 years. However, there has been significant divergence in how instructional leadership has been conceptualized over time. The purpose of this paper is to present a comprehensive review of 25 years of quantitative instructional…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Educational Research, Meta Analysis, National Surveys
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Urick, Angela; Bowers, Alex J. – Journal of School Leadership, 2014
The purpose of this study is to examine the independent direct effects of student and principal perceptions of academic climate on student achievement in high school. To date, few studies have considered the influence of principal perceptions of academic climate on student achievement. In the present study, we test a set of two-level hierarchical…
Descriptors: Principals, High Schools, High School Students, Educational Environment
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Bowers, Alex J.; Sprott, Ryan – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2012
A large percentage of the students who drop out of K-12 schools in the United States do so at the end of high school, at some point after grade 10. Yet little is known about the differences between types of students who drop out near the end of high school. The purpose of this study is to examine a typology of high school dropouts from a large…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Dropouts, Dropout Research, High School Students
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Urick, Angela; Bowers, Alex J. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2011
Using a nationally representative sample of public high schools (N = 439), we examined the extent to which the principal's perception of their influence over instruction, the evaluation of nonacademic related tasks as well as academic related tasks, and their relationship with the school district relates to their perception of academic climate…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, High Schools, School Districts, Educational Environment