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Boies, Kathleen; Fiset, John – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2019
Purpose: Decades of research in educational leadership has extolled the importance of principals in both the effective functioning of teachers and the overall performance of schools. The mechanisms explaining what makes principals effective in the eyes of teachers, however, are not well known. This study builds on prior research to posit that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Elementary School Teachers, Administrator Behavior
Ergle, Barbara – ProQuest LLC, 2012
School leaders face high expectations from society for leadership effectiveness. While it is commonly accepted that leadership practices contribute to school excellence, specific behaviors of effective elementary principals in the local context were not well understood. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to investigate self-reported…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Principals, Elementary Schools, Mixed Methods Research
Hauserman, Calvin P.; Ivankova, Nataliya V.; Stick, Sheldon L. – Online Submission, 2007
This mixed method study used survey research, open-ended questions, and interviews to identify transformational leadership qualities among principals of publicly funded schools in the Province of Alberta, Canada. Five-hundred-nine teachers (37.7%) from a random sample of schools in the province completed the Multifactor leadership Questionnaire…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Principals, Instructional Leadership