ERIC Number: EJ1216952
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 20
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ISSN: ISSN-0305-5698
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Developing and Validating an Instrument Measuring School Leadership
Shen, Jianping; Ma, Xin; Gao, Xingyuan; Bierlien Palmer, Louann; Poppink, Sue; Burt, Walter; Leneway, Robert; McCrumb, Dennis; Pearson, Charles; Rainey, Mark; Reeves, Patricia; Wegenke, Gary
Educational Studies, v45 n4 p402-421 2019
In this study, we developed and validated an instrument that researchers can use to measure the collective effort of principals and teachers who excise their own unique leadership to generate (integrated) school leadership. Based on 644 teachers, we found sound psychometric properties of the scales of the instrument and the instrument as a whole. We also explored the predictive properties of the instrument in predicting student achievement at the school level. Based on 53 schools, we found that the instrument can indeed measure the kind of school leadership that really matters to student achievement. When predicting student achievement (at the school level), the instrument tends to be more sensitive to more difficult school subjects (e.g. mathematics), implying that improvement in school leadership would lead to larger improvement in student achievement (at the school level) in more difficult school subjects.
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Teacher Leadership, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Transformational Leadership, Principals, Teacher Collaboration, College School Cooperation, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, Faculty Development, Secondary Schools, Universities
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Secondary Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Elementary Education; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Michigan
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