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Farrell, Caitlin C. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2015
Purpose: As state and federal accountability systems have increased demands for evidence of student achievement, the use of data to inform practice has become more prevalent. More research is needed to understand not only "what" organizational factors shape data-use efforts but also "how" these factors enable or constrain…
Descriptors: School Districts, Charter Schools, Instructional Improvement, Secondary Schools
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Farrell, Caitlin C.; Marsh, Julie A. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2016
Purpose: Supporting teachers' use of data has become a large part of educational leaders' instructional leadership. Drawing on sensemaking theory, we explore how features of data and teachers' perceptions of them may matter when teachers consider student learning data. Design: The article draws on a 1-year, comparative case study of five…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Comparative Analysis, Case Studies, Low Income Groups
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Greer, Jennifer L.; Searby, Linda J.; Thoma, Stephen J. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2015
Purpose: The public expects school leaders to be moral exemplars, yet prior research indicates that teachers and, more recently, school principals may score lower than other career groups on a widely used measure of moral reasoning, the Defining Issues Test. Moreover, little empirical research has been conducted on educators during leadership…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Comparative Analysis, Profiles, Moral Values
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Leslie, David W. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1973
The study reported on attempted to establish the strength of faculty agreement or disagreement with statements implying that they perceived decisionmaking for selected issues to be legitimate on their respective campuses, and compared these results from campus to campus. The survey uncovered complex patterns that varied with the issue involved,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Governance
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Marks, Helen M.; Nance, Jason P. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2007
Purpose: The study investigates how various accountability contexts--including states, local boards, districts, school site councils, parent associations, and teachers--affect the ability of principals to influence instructional and supervisory decisions in their schools. Data: Data for the analysis come from 1999-2000 Schools and Staffing Survey…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Educational Change, Accountability, Principals
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Scribner, Jay Paredes; Sawyer, R. Keith; Watson, Sheldon T.; Myers, Vicki L. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2007
Purpose: This article explores distributed leadership as it relates to two teacher teams in one public secondary school. Both situational and social aspects of distributed leadership are foci of investigation. Methods: The qualitative study used constant comparative analysis and discourse analysis to explore leadership as a distributed phenomenon.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Instructional Leadership, Demography, Discourse Analysis
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Song, Mengli; Miskel, Cecil G. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2005
This study assessed policy actors' influence on state reading policy and compared the structure of reading policy networks across eight states. Data for the study came from structured interviews and archival documents and were analyzed using social network analysis methods. This study found that state reading policy networks were heterogeneous in…
Descriptors: Network Analysis, Social Networks, Educational Policy, Change Agents
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Crandall, David P.; And Others – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1986
Presents findings from studies that provide guidelines to policymakers and administrators on a range of issues related to school improvement. The first set of issues deals with deciding upon the nature of the desired changes. The second set deals with planning how to proceed. One hundred twenty-eight footnotes are appended. (IW)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Educational Change, Educational Improvement