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Bradley E. Cooper – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Current researchers have not been clear on whether or not professional development expenditures, at the school district level, share any possible relationships with student achievement outcomes on state-level summative testing. While there are many articles and numerous research studies on the concept, they are very contradictory in their…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Expenditures, Performance, Evaluation
Joshua Sinclair – Online Submission, 2025
This non-experimental, quantitative correlation study aimed to see if a correlation existed among variables of years of teaching experience and teacher leadership styles, burnout, school culture, and teachers' perception of school leadership. Transformational leadership provided the theoretical framework for this study. This study was significant…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Transformational Leadership, Teacher Burnout, School Culture
Ashlee Lynn McManamey – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Graduation rates and standardized test scores are common indicators to measure student academic achievement. These indicators have revealed a gap between two socioeconomic cohorts of students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Students attending high-poverty schools have lower academic performance than students attending low-poverty schools. As a…
Descriptors: Poverty, Comparative Analysis, Leadership Styles, Transformational Leadership
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Bellibas, Mehmet Sükrü; Kilinç, Ali Çagatay; Polatcan, Mahmut – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2021
Aim: While integrated leadership has received significant scholarly attention in the past decade, most existing research in this vein has focused on its impact on student achievement and often dismissed how it might be related to instructional practices, which are at the center of many school reforms. In this research, we examined the relationship…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Effectiveness, Correlation
Jodi Lynne McClay – ProQuest LLC, 2021
School leaders play a vital role in ensuring student achievement. In fact, they are second only to classroom instruction. All too often, however, principals are immersed in administrative duties with little time or training to become true leaders of learning who can shape the success of a school. This dissertation focuses on the need for central…
Descriptors: Central Office Administrators, Administrator Role, Principals, Administrator Effectiveness
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Lund, Terese J.; Liang, Belle; Konowitz, Lily; White, Allison E.; DeSilva Mousseau, Angela – Psychology in the Schools, 2019
A growing number of studies have demonstrated that purpose in life is associated with positive outcomes among adolescents and young adults. The college years represent an important period of both personal and professional growth, including purpose in life. Supportive relationships may play a critical role in the identification and pursuit of…
Descriptors: Mentors, Correlation, College Students, Individual Development
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Eroglu, Mehmet; Özbek, Ramazan – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2021
The aim of the study is to develop a scale that measures teachers' perceptions about school characteristics that support professional development (PD). The 40-item pool was created for the scale to be developed by examining similar measurement tools and literature. According to expert opinions, a 32-item trial form was created to conduct. The data…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Participation, Secondary School Teachers, Professional Development
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Skrzypek, Candra; Diebold, Josal; Kim, Wooksoo; Krause, Denise – Journal of Social Work Education, 2022
Alumni mentoring in social work allows students to connect with experienced practitioners in a nonevaluative context and for alumni to strengthen university connections. This study describes and evaluates one established student-alumni mentoring program. Pretest (n=277) and posttest (n=153) data were collected from participants across 3 years.…
Descriptors: Mentors, Alumni, Counselor Training, Social Work
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Ho, Maxwell Chun Sing; Lee, Daphnee Hui Lin – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2020
A standardised financial literacy curriculum ensures that all students in a school system receive financial knowledge, which offers them the necessary support to make informed decisions about money management and practise appropriate financial behaviour. In Hong Kong, all secondary schools supposed to teach financial literacy via a standardised…
Descriptors: Money Management, Curriculum Development, Teaching Methods, Standards
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Qvortrup, Lars – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
Based on experiences from a number of large scale data- and research-informed school development projects in Denmark and Norway, led by the author, three hypotheses are discussed: that an effective way of linking research and practice is achieved (1) using a capacity building approach, that is, to collaborate in the practical school context…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Problem Based Learning
Willmore, Candice; Smith, Donna J.; Southerland, Christie – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This mixed-methods study was designed to determine the impact of attendance in the professional development series of the school leaders' organization for school leaders and leadership capacity in Tennessee public schools. The areas of focus of the study included leadership practices, instructional practices, and school culture as perceived by…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Leadership Training, Public Schools, Teaching Methods
Smith, Donna J.; Southerland, Christie; Willmore, Candice – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This mixed-methods study was designed to determine the impact of attendance in the professional development series of the school leaders' organization for school leaders and leadership capacity in Tennessee public schools. The areas of focus of the study included leadership practices, instructional practices, and school culture as perceived by…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Leadership Training, Public Schools, Teaching Methods
Laletina, Alexandra – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The study examines students' perspectives on learning in a co-curricular language-based program at a large public university in northeastern United States. Specifically, I analyze students' motivations to enroll in the program and their perceptions of learning outcomes. The study uses the interdisciplinary construct of identity as a theoretical…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Student Attitudes, State Universities, College Second Language Programs
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Clark, Tedra F.; Goddard, Roger – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
Effective school reform requires communication with and buy-in from key stakeholders. In recent years, stakeholder surveys have become increasingly prominent tools for promoting better understanding of how school factors contribute to student success. The key purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between Victorian school scores on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Personnel, Opinions, Surveys
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Gumus, Emine; Bellibas, Mehmet Sukru – Educational Studies, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which professional development predicts principals' instructional leadership in order to identify whether a relationship exists between the duration of principals' participation in distinct professional development activities and their perceived practice of instructional leadership while…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Instructional Leadership, Surveys, Academic Achievement
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