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Schechter, Chen; Qadach, Mowafaq – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2016
This exploration of principal learning mechanisms (PLM) to support a learning-centered school aimed to develop, field-test, and validate a PLM-measuring instrument. Following exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of items to examine factorial validity, the developed scale was correlated with other work-related established constructs (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Principals, Elementary Education, Organizational Development, Factor Analysis
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Schechter, Chen – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2008
Purpose: In light of the excessively broad conceptions and nonobservable terms generally characterizing discussions of organizational learning, this study explores the notion of organizational learning in schools through the conceptual framework of organizational learning mechanisms (OLM) and develops a measure of OLM at the elementary school…
Descriptors: Validity, Learning Processes, Organizational Development, Information Processing
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da Costa, Jose L. – International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2006
This article reports observations of teachers' collaboration within an inner city elementary school located in western Canada. The study traces the school's development as a learning organization, focusing on the interplay between individual--the level at which learning and action actually occur--and social learning--a conceptual tool for…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Adult Learning, Foreign Countries, Professional Development