Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ398365
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Publication Date: 1989
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Organizational Factors that Affect School Sense of Efficacy, Community, and Expectations.
Newmann, Fred M.; And Others
Sociology of Education, v62 n4 p221-38 Oct 1989
Using the High School and Beyond Survey, explores the impact that 10 organizational features have on teachers' sense of efficacy, sense of community, and expectations of student performance in 353 public high schools. Finds that when background variables are controlled, school organizational features had a major influence on all three teacher-climate variables. (LS/Author)
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Research, Group Dynamics, Institutional Characteristics, National Surveys, Organizational Climate, Public Schools, School Organization, Statistical Analysis, Teacher Alienation, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Expectations of Students, Teaching Conditions
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Administrators; Researchers; Practitioners
Language: English
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