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What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
This What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) report, part of the WWC's School Leadership topic area, examines research on the effects of the National Institute for School Leadership™ (NISL) program on student, teacher, and school leader outcomes. The "NISL" program (formerly the "NISL Executive Development Program") is a professional…
Descriptors: Management Development, School Administration, National Programs, Instructional Leadership
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Brown, Travor C.; Warren, Amy M. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2009
This study assessed transfer from a customized executive training program involving 89 public sector employees. Participants who set a distal goal had higher self-efficacy than those in both the "do your best" (DYB) and the proximal plus distal goal conditions. Participants who set proximal plus distal goals had higher maintenance than…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Goal Orientation, Government Employees, Management Development
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Kantavong, Pennee; Sivabaedya, Suwaree – International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2010
This study used a quasi-experimental research design to examine the impact of a professional learning program designed to enhance the competency of children with Autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Learning Disabilities and to develop knowledge, understanding and skills of teachers and parents in helping them. Data were collected…
Descriptors: Intervention, Autism, Learning Disabilities, Academic Achievement
Saling, Nona – Online Submission, 2005
Despite the phenomenal growth of executive coaching in recent years, there has been little empirical research on its effectiveness. Executive coaching is typically delivered with 360 degree feedback and training. This study tests whether there are significant differences in leadership behavior change for participants who: received feedback alone;…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Leadership, Behavior Modification, Feedback
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Cardno, Carol – School Organisation, 1995
Presents an action-research approach to investigating the diverse goals and dilemmas characterizing staff appraisal activity. Describes an intervention to counter ineffective, defensive reasoning and teach two (New Zealand) principals how to think and act productively to manage dilemmas. Discusses challenges of the complex theoretical and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Administrator Effectiveness, Crisis Management, Elementary Secondary Education
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Turner, Jane; Mavin, Sharon; Minocha, Sonal – Learning Organization, 2006
Purpose: To critique individual learning experiences in organization, explore the role people play in inhibiting learning in organization and explore theories of individual learning as "theories in use", drawing on a metaphor of steps and dance. Design/methodology/approach: Based on a subjective qualitative approach engaging in…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Dance, Figurative Language, Data Analysis
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Forgatch, Marion S.; DeGarmo, David S.; Beldavs, Zintars G. – Behavior Therapy, 2005
This article evaluates the efficacy of the Oregon model of Parent Management Training (PMTO) in the stepfamily context. Sixty-seven of 110 participants in the Marriage and Parenting in Stepfamilies (MAPS) program received a PMTO-based intervention. Participants in the randomly assigned experimental group displayed a large effect in benefits to…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Intervention, Structural Equation Models, Family (Sociological Unit)