Developing and validating an instrument measuring school leadership

Jianping Shen; Xin Ma; Xingyuan Gao; Louann Bierlien Palmer; Sue Poppink; Walter Burt; Robert Leneway; Dennis McCrumb; Charles Pearson; Mark Rainey; Patricia Reeves; Gary Wegenke

doi:10.1080/03055698.2018.1446338

Developing and validating an instrument measuring school leadership

Jianping Shen, Xin Ma, Xingyuan Gao, Louann Bierlien Palmer, Sue Poppink, Walter Burt, Robert Leneway, Dennis McCrumb, Charles Pearson, Mark Rainey, Patricia Reeves, Gary Wegenke

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	402-421
Number of pages	20
Journal	Educational Studies
Volume	45
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/03055698.2018.1446338
State	Published - Jul 4 2019

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Funding Information:
Xin Ma is a professor of Department of Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology at University of Kentucky. He is a Spencer Fellow of the (U.S.) National Academy of Education, a recipient of the Early Career Contribution Award from the American Educational Research Association, (former) Canada Research Chair, and founder and (former) Director of the Canadian Center for Advanced Studies of National Databases.

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© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Keywords

School leadership
instrument development
school renewal

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Education

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