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Rushing, Kimberly Joy; Pendola, Andrew – Journal of Educational Administration, 2023
Purpose: Schools in resource challenged communities require principal approaches that break patterns of low expectations and low student achievement. This study identifies Alabama's "outlier" schools that have been consistently successful in attaining higher student outcomes than their neighboring schools despite their similar community…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Principals, Administrator Effectiveness, Instructional Leadership
Kemethofer, David; Weber, Christoph; Brauckmann-Sajkiewicz, Stefan; Pashiardis, Petros – Journal of Educational Administration, 2023
Purpose: In an era of increased autonomy and accountability in education, school principals have been given the responsibility for many tasks that used to be centralized, such as hiring and managing personnel, ensuring that the curriculum is followed and that the development of the school is on the right path. In this study an exploration is…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Principals, Accountability
Gordon, Molly F.; Hart, Holly – Journal of Educational Administration, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide concrete examples of what leadership behaviors and strategies look like in high-poverty urban schools in Chicago that are successful at improving student outcomes. The authors compared the strategies used by principals who were rated by their teachers on annual surveys as being strong instructional…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Poverty, Urban Schools
Dutta, Vartika; Sahney, Sangeeta – Journal of Educational Administration, 2022
Purpose: We study the role of school climate, and teacher task, and citizenship performance in mediating the effects of principal instructional leadership behavior on student achievement. Design/methodology/approach: Structural equation modeling was applied to data obtained from 302 Indian secondary schools to test a mediated-effects model.…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Educational Environment, Job Performance
Leithwood, Kenneth; Sun, Jingping – Journal of Educational Administration, 2018
Purpose: This study is a quantitative exploration of a new construct the authors label as "academic culture (AC)." Treating it as generalized latent variable composed of academic press (AP), disciplinary climate (DC), and teachers' use of instructional time, the purpose of this paper is to explore the potential of this construct to be a…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Learning Processes, Academic Achievement, Socioeconomic Status
Mitchell, Roxanne M.; Mendiola, Brenda J.; Schumacker, Randall; Lowery, Xaviera – Journal of Educational Administration, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to use SEM to explore the effects of enabling school structure (ESS) and academic optimism (AO) on school achievement (SA). Design/methodology/approach: A sample of 58 urban schools, including 42 elementary schools and 16 middle schools in a southeastern district in the USA were included in this study.…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Urban Schools, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools
Tschannen-Moran, Megan; Gareis, Christopher R. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationships among faculty trust in the principal, principal leadership behaviors, school climate, and student achievement. Design/methodology/approach: Data from 64 elementary, middle, and high schools in two school districts formed the basis of the study (n = 3,215 teachers), allowing for…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Principals, Faculty, Administrator Behavior
Tschannen-Moran, Megan; Bankole, Regina A.; Mitchell, Roxanne M.; Moore, Dennis M., Jr. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2013
Purpose: This research aims to add to the literature on Academic Optimism, a composite measure composed of teacher perceptions of trust in students, academic press, and collective efficacy by exploring a similar set of constructs from the student perceptive. The relationships between student trust in teachers, student perceptions of academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Factor Analysis, Identification, Educational Environment
Hamilton, Laura S.; Schwartz, Heather L.; Stecher, Brian M.; Steele, Jennifer L. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine how test-based accountability has influenced school and district practices and explore how states and districts might consider creating expanded systems of measures to address the shortcomings of traditional accountability. It provides research-based guidance for entities that are developing or…
Descriptors: Accountability, Measures (Individuals), Expertise, Semi Structured Interviews
Bandur, Agustinus – Journal of Educational Administration, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the current school-based management (SBM) policy reform in Indonesia, with an emphasis on the impacts of shifting authority and responsibility to school level, as well as challenges confronted by the school council members, followed by remedial measures to minimize the problems.…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Stakeholders, Teaching Methods, Cultural Context
Sanzo, Karen Leigh; Sherman, Whitney H.; Clayton, Jennifer – Journal of Educational Administration, 2011
Purpose: This study aims to be one in a series examining the leadership best practices of school principals as they lead in an accountability- and standards-driven school environment. The lack of research and necessity to find successful practices to improve student achievement highlight the need for this study. Design/methodology/approach: An…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Academic Achievement, Educational Environment, Principals
Fuller, Bruce; Dauter, Luke; Hosek, Adrienne; Kirschenbaum, Greta; McKoy, Deborah; Rigby, Jessica; Vincent, Jeffrey M. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2009
Purpose: Newly designed schools for centuries have projected fresh ideals regarding how children should learn and how human settlements should be organized. But under what conditions can forward-looking architects or education reformers trump the institutionalized practices of teachers or the political-economic constraints found within urban…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, School Construction, Academic Achievement, Teacher Motivation
Tanner, C. Kenneth – Journal of Educational Administration, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to compare student achievement with three school design classifications: movement and circulation, day lighting, and views. Design/methodology/approach: From a sample of 71 schools, measures of these three school designs, taken with a ten-point Likert scale, are compared to students' outcomes defined by six…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Educational Facilities Design, Language Arts, Likert Scales
Uline, Cynthia L.; Tschannen-Moran, Megan; Wolsey, Thomas DeVere – Journal of Educational Administration, 2009
Purpose: Accompanying the recent concern for the quality of our nation's educational infrastructure, a growing body of research connects the quality of school facilities to both student outcomes including achievement, behavior, and attitude as well as to teacher attitude and behavior. Less is known about the mechanisms of these relationships. This…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Academic Achievement, School Buildings, Aesthetics
Uline, Cynthia; Tschannen-Moran, Megan – Journal of Educational Administration, 2008
Purpose: A growing body of research connecting the quality of school facilities to student performance accompanies recent efforts to improve the state of the educational infrastructure in the USA. Less is known about the mechanisms of these relationships. This paper seeks to examine the proposition that part of the explanation may be the mediating…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Relationship, Academic Achievement, School Buildings
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