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Bustamante, Rebecca M.; Nelson, Judith A.; Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2009
Purpose: The initial purpose of this mixed methods study was to assess the instrument fidelity and construct-related validity of a 33-item instrument called the Schoolwide Cultural Competence Observation Checklist (SCCOC) by eliciting school leaders' views. The SCCOC was designed as one tool for use in conducting school culture audits, which…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, School Culture, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training
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Evans, Andrea E. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2007
Background: School leaders must make sense of the messages they receive from multiple, overlapping contexts of their school environments. Equally important, they must shape meaning of school issues and events with and for other school members. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the ways in which school leaders defined and made sense…
Descriptors: Racial Factors, Demography, Educational Environment, Instructional Leadership
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Halverson, Richard R.; Clifford, Matthew A. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2006
Purpose: The authors adapted distributed cognition theory to provide a detailed account of how school leaders use knowledge of the new programs, existing initiatives, and school contexts to guide policy implementation. Research Design: The study used distributed cognition theory to show how policy implementation studies provide an occasion to…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, School Policy, Case Studies, Program Effectiveness