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Hofman, W. H. Adriaan; Hofman, Roelande H. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2011
Purpose: In this study the authors focus on different (configurations of) leadership or management styles in schools for general and vocational education. Findings: Using multilevel (students and schools) analyses, strong differences in effective management styles between schools with different student populations were observed. Conclusions: The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, General Education, Vocational Education, School Effectiveness
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ten Bruggencate, Gerdy; Luyten, Hans; Scheerens, Jaap; Sleegers, Peter – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2012
Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the means by which principals achieve an impact on student achievement. Research Design: Through the application of structural equation modeling, a mediated-effects model for school leadership was tested, using data from 97 secondary schools in the Netherlands. Findings: The results showed a small…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Academic Achievement, School Effectiveness, School Organization
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Dumay, Xavier – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2009
Purpose: Most studies on the impact of school culture focus only on teachers' average perceptions and neglect the possibility that a meaningful increment to the prediction of school effectiveness might be provided by the variance in teachers' culture perceptions. The objectives of this article are to (a) better understand how teachers' collective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Participative Decision Making, School Culture, Teacher Attitudes
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Gunn, James A.; Holdaway, Edward A. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1986
A 1983-84 Alberta study examined the job satisfaction of senior high school principals and its relationship to these principals' perceptions of their influence, their effectiveness, and their school's effectiveness. The selected indicators and best predictors of these variables, and associations with demographic variables, also were identified.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, High Schools, Job Satisfaction, Leadership Styles
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Somech, Anit – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2005
Purpose: The educational literature reflects the widely shared belief that participative leadership has an overwhelming advantage over the contrasting style of directive leadership in organizational and team effectiveness. The purpose of this study was to examine the relative effect of a directive leadership approach as compared with a…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Leadership Effectiveness, School Effectiveness, Work Attitudes