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Jianping Shen; Huang Wu – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2025
Principal leadership has been widely regarded as a powerful catalyst for school improvement and student learning. This article presents a multivariate meta-analysis of 42 empirical studies, published between 2000 and 2020, that examined the effects of principal leadership on student achievement in the United States. The focus is on the conceptual…
Descriptors: Principals, Leadership Styles, Academic Achievement, Correlation
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Leithwood, Kenneth; Sun, Jingping – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2012
Background: Using meta-analytic review techniques, this study synthesized the results of 79 unpublished studies about the nature of transformational school leadership (TSL) and its impact on the school organization, teachers, and students. This corpus of research associates TSL with 11 specific leadership practices. These practices, as a whole,…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Transformational Leadership, Leadership Effectiveness, Meta Analysis
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Hallinger, Philip – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2011
Background: This report continues in the lineage of reviews of research in educational leadership and management by examining methodological approaches used by doctoral researchers in studying principal instructional leadership. Research Design: The article reviews the full set of 130 doctoral dissertations completed over the past three decades…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Principals, Role, Instructional Leadership
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Bowers, Alex J. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2010
Purpose: District effectiveness research (DER) is an emerging field concerned with identifying the organizational structures, administration, and leadership practices at the school district level that help districts find success with all of their students across the schools within the system. This work has mirrored much of the early school…
Descriptors: Research Design, Effective Schools Research, Site Selection, School Effectiveness
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Baker, Bruce D.; Wolf-Wendel, Lisa; Twombly, Susan – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2007
Purpose: This study examines the factors that predict who among those receiving educational administration doctorates is most likely to become a faculty member. Research Design: The study uses 10 years of data on all doctoral recipients from programs in educational administration gathered from the Survey of Earned Doctorates (1990 to 2000).…
Descriptors: Research Design, Career Choice, Research Universities, Faculty
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Owens, Robert G. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1982
Methodological adequacy in naturalistic inquiry is enhanced by understanding the differences between the naturalistic and rationalistic paradigms; by using simultaneous data collection and analysis, with prolonged field research, an audit trail, multiple sources, and referential materials; and by employing "thick description" extensively…
Descriptors: Credibility, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Field Studies