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50 Years of ERIC
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Examining the Relationship between Teacher Quality as an Organizational Property of Schools and Students' Achievement and Growth Rates
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Heck, Ronald H. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2007
Purpose: No Child Left Behind (NCLB) brought attention to the need for states to upgrade the criteria used to certify teachers for entry into the profession. This study focuses on collective teacher qualifications mandated by NCLB and the role they play in explaining differences in school achievement and growth rates. Research Methods: The study…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Teacher Qualifications, Research Methodology, Teacher Effectiveness
Assessing School Achievement Progress: Comparing Alternative Approaches
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Heck, Ronald H. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2006
Purpose: Currently under the No Child Left Behind Act, cut scores of successive cohorts of students are used to identify schools that are successful and others that are failing. For many schools, however, this score does not provide an accurate, fair, or comprehensive performance assessment. The focus of this study is to compare three alternative…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Policy, Cohort Analysis, Academic Achievement
Reassessing the Principal's Role in School Effectiveness.
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Hallinger, Philip; Heck, Ronald H. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1996
Reviews 1980-95 empirical literature on the relationship between the principal's role and school effectiveness. Examines conceptual underpinnings of several theoretical models to study the role, the relationship between models and investigation methods, and the nature of principals' influence. Principal leadership and school goals indirectly…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Context Effect, Educational Environment
Instructional Leadership and School Achievement: Validation of a Causal Model.
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Heck, Ronald H.; And Others – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1990
Summarizes a study that tested a theoretical model concerning elementary and secondary school principals' influence on student achievement. Results showed that 3 latent instructional leadership variables (school governance, instructional organization, and school climate) affected student achievement. Includes 54 references. (MLH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Behavior Patterns, Educational Environment
Political Culture and Policy in a State-Controlled Educational System: The Case of Educational Politics in Hawaii.
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Benham, Maenette K. P.; Heck, Ronald H. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1994
Focusing on Hawaii over the past 150 years, examines who controlled the educational policy process and what values were pursued in resultant school policies. Political culture has continued to reflect limited citizen involvement while fostering the pursuit of efficiency. Understanding how a state's political culture has developed temporally may be…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education