TY - JOUR
T1 - Developing and validating an instrument measuring school leadership
AU - Shen, Jianping
AU - Ma, Xin
AU - Gao, Xingyuan
AU - Bierlien Palmer, Louann
AU - Poppink, Sue
AU - Burt, Walter
AU - Leneway, Robert
AU - McCrumb, Dennis
AU - Pearson, Charles
AU - Rainey, Mark
AU - Reeves, Patricia
AU - Wegenke, Gary
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/7/4
Y1 - 2019/7/4
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - School leadership
KW - instrument development
KW - school renewal
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U2 - 10.1080/03055698.2018.1446338
DO - 10.1080/03055698.2018.1446338
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85043690011
SN - 0305-5698
VL - 45
SP - 402
EP - 421
JO - Educational Studies
JF - Educational Studies
IS - 4
ER -