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Motivating Teachers' Commitment to Change through Distributed Leadership in Chinese Urban Primary Schools
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Liu, Peng – International Journal of Educational Management, 2020
Purpose: Understanding the relationship between distributed leadership and teachers commitment to change in the Chinese urban primary school context was the purpose of this study. Design/methodology/approach: Quantitative research method is used in this study. For ensuring comprehensiveness, this research employed a random sampling method. This…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Urban Schools, Educational Change, Correlation
An Examination of the Impact of Induction on Teacher Efficacy
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Stanley, Julie A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
States have turned to effective induction programs in response to rising teacher attrition rates and a widening student achievement gap. Comprehensive induction programs that develop highly efficacious teachers report a decline in teacher attrition, an increase in job satisfaction, and a rise in student achievement. The intent of this research was…
Descriptors: Teacher Orientation, Teacher Effectiveness, Self Efficacy, Educational Strategies
How Can We Measure School Performance?
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Babineau, Kate – Cowen Institute, 2017
Nationally, there are dozens of established indicators of school performance and thousands of possible combinations of those indicators to create an accountability framework. How do policy makers decide which variables are most important? This relates to measurement modeling -- that is, how to incorporate all pieces of the puzzle into a…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Educational Assessment, Accountability, Best Practices
To Succeed or Not to Succeed: Evaluating the Application of Management Training in the Nonprofit Environment
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DeFrancesco, Dawn M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
There were two purposes of this mixed methods study. The first purpose was to measure the extent of training impact that resulted from management training within a nonprofit environment. To determine potential influences on the extent of training impact, this study included hypotheses that measured specifically whether there was a relationship…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Nonprofit Organizations, Mixed Methods Research, Correlation
Supporting Students' College Success: The Role of Assessment of Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Competencies
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Herman, Joan, Ed.; Hilton, Margaret, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2017
The importance of higher education has never been clearer. Educational attainment--the number of years a person spends in school--strongly predicts adult earnings, as well as health and civic engagement. Yet relative to other developed nations, educational attainment in the United States is lagging, with young Americans who heretofore led the…
Descriptors: College Students, Academic Achievement, Student Evaluation, Interpersonal Competence
Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Florida School Principals regarding Federal and State Accountability Measures
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McCullers, John Frank – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study examined how self-efficacy beliefs, a central construct of social cognitive theory, might be used to inform educational leadership and policy decisions related to school accountability measures. A survey of 112 principals in Florida was used to investigate the degree to which principals believed the goals of federal and state school…
Descriptors: State Schools, Self Efficacy, Federal Legislation, Accountability