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Testing the Predictive Power of an Instrument Titled "Orientation to School Renewal"
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Shen, Jianping; Ma, Xin; Mansberger, Nancy; Gao, Xingyuan; Palmer, Louann Bierlein; Burt, Walter; Leneway, Robert; McCrumb, Dennis; Poppink, Sue; Reeves, Patricia; Whitten, Elizabeth – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2020
Policy makers, school practitioners, and scholars around the world have been searching for better school improvement models. The purpose of this study was to understand how an instrument we developed, Orientation to School Renewal, can be used to predict school-level academic achievement. We used the instrument to predict the academic performance…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Measures (Individuals), Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations
Developing and Validating an Instrument Measuring School Leadership
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Shen, Jianping; Ma, Xin; Gao, Xingyuan; Bierlien Palmer, Louann; Poppink, Sue; Burt, Walter; Leneway, Robert; McCrumb, Dennis; Pearson, Charles; Rainey, Mark; Reeves, Patricia; Wegenke, Gary – Educational Studies, 2019
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.…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Teacher Leadership, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement