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Qadach, Mowafaq; Schechter, Chen; Da'as, Rima'a – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2020
Keeping experienced and competent teachers in schools is becoming an important challenge for school leadership. Hence, this research tested an innovative model which explored the direct and indirect relationship between principals' instructional leadership, collective teacher efficacy, a shared vision, and a teacher's intent to leave their…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Intention, Faculty Mobility, Correlation
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Da'as, Rima'a; Qadach, Mowafaq; Erdogan, Ufuk; Schwabsky, Nitza; Schechter, Chen; Tschannen-Moran, Megan – Journal of Educational Administration, 2022
Purpose: Collective teacher efficacy (CTE) is a promising construct for understanding how schools can foster student achievement. Although much of the early research on CTE took place in North America, researchers from other parts of the world are now delving into this topic. The current study explores whether these powerful collective beliefs…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Self Efficacy, Teacher Effectiveness
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Schechter, Chen; Qadach, Mowafaq; Da'as, Rima'a – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This research tested a theoretical model that links (directly and indirectly) principals' characteristics--principals' information-processing mechanisms (PIPMs) and instructional leadership (IL)--with organizational learning mechanisms (OLMs), the latter with teacher characteristics (teachers' affective commitment, collective teacher efficacy,…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Characteristics, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
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Qadach, Mowafaq; Schechter, Chen; Da'as, Rima'a – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2020
Purpose: This study explored a theoretical model proposing direct and mediated effects for principals' characteristics--principals' information-processing mechanisms (PIPMs) and instructional leadership (IL)--with organizational learning mechanisms (OLMs), for schools' OLMs with teachers' characteristics--teachers' affective commitment (TAC),…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Characteristics, Instructional Leadership, Teacher Characteristics
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Schechter, Chen; Atarchi, Lilach – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2014
Purpose: Organizational learning has been conceptualized as a critical component for school effectiveness. This study explored organizational learning in schools through the conceptual framework of "organizational learning mechanisms" (OLMs) and developed a measure of OLMs at the secondary school level. Research Design: Exploratory and…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Organizational Development, Learning, Learning Processes
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Schechter, Chen; Tschannen-Moran, Megan – International Journal of Educational Management, 2006
Purpose: This study explores the notion of collective teacher efficacy, a characteristic of schools that has emerged as a significant factor in school productivity. More specifically, this paper examines the construct validity and reliability of the Israeli Collective Teacher Efficacy Scale and explores variables that may influence teachers' sense…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Suburban Schools, Elementary Schools, Self Efficacy
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Schechter, Chen; Qadach, Mowafaq – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2012
Purpose: This study explored a theoretical model that links teachers' perceived uncertainty and teachers' sense of collective efficacy with organizational learning mechanisms (OLMs) in elementary schools. OLMs serve as a mediator construct. Research Design: For testing the primary theoretical model, 801 teachers from 61 elementary schools (33…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, Elementary School Teachers, Models
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Ganon-Shilon, Sherry; Shaked, Haim; Schechter, Chen – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2022
This qualitative study explores school principals' perceptions and enactments of shared sense-making processes during a generally-outlined pedagogical reform, i.e. "a broad-policy reform allowing educators to exercise their discretion in meeting its pedagogical goals," aiming to inquire what makes such processes critical to schools'…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Educational Change, Educational Policy
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Schechter, Chen – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2008
Purpose: In light of the excessively broad conceptions and nonobservable terms generally characterizing discussions of organizational learning, this study explores the notion of organizational learning in schools through the conceptual framework of organizational learning mechanisms (OLM) and develops a measure of OLM at the elementary school…
Descriptors: Validity, Learning Processes, Organizational Development, Information Processing