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Peer reviewedHoy, Wayne K.; Sweetland, Scott R.; Smith, Page A. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2002
Develops a theoretical model of the salient organizational variables related to mathematics achievement in high school. The model is composed of three variables: socioeconomic status, academic press, and collective efficacy. Finds, for example, that collective efficacy is the significant variable in the model in influencing mathematics…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Group Behavior, High Schools, Mathematics Achievement
Peer reviewedSousa, David A.; Hoy, Wayne K. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1981
Compares two methods of measuring bureaucratic structure, Hall's organizational inventory and the University of Aston (England) approach, and tests them using data from 55 public high schools in New Jersey. Factor analysis reveals four underlying dimensions of school structure, including organizational control, rational specialization, system…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, Centralization, Factor Analysis
Direct linkSinden, James; Hoy, Wayne K.; Sweetland, Scott R. – Journal of School Leadership, 2004
School structures need not be rigid, controlling, and coercive; in fact, they can be just the opposite. Enabling school structures are centralized and formalized in ways that promote problem solving, collaboration, flexibility, change, and professional judgment. The current research demonstrates the importance of "both" collegial…
Descriptors: Leadership, Administrative Principles, Principals, Teacher Attitudes
