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Xiaorong Ma; Russ Marion – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2024
The research literature reports that teacher collaboration has great potential to increase various teachers' competencies; however, less has been said about how leaders can facilitate and support the development of these collaborations. This study examines the relative impact of distributed leadership practices, teacher professional learning, and…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Instructional Leadership, Faculty Development, Teacher Administrator Relationship
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Lopes, João; Oliveira, Célia – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2020
Teacher job satisfaction is an essential factor for teachers' and school effectiveness and students' academic and educational achievement. The present research aims to identify variables that contribute to job satisfaction in a Portuguese sample of lower secondary education teachers, using data from the Teaching and Learning International Survey…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Job Satisfaction, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Foreign Countries
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Bellibas, Mehmet Sükrü; Gümüs, Sedat; Liu, Yan – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2021
The presented paper aims to examine the influence of principal leadership on teaching practices in order to reveal direct and indirect effects of instructional and distributed leadership models on teachers' instructional quality, with the mediating effect of teacher collaboration and job satisfaction. This research conducted secondary data…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Leadership Styles, Leadership Effectiveness, Participative Decision Making
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Pietsch, Marcus; Tulowitzki, Pierre; Hartig, Johannes – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2020
There is a large base of empirical evidence that points to the importance of school leadership with regard to functional schools and student achievement. Based on this importance, a change of principal can be a critical event for a school. This study seeks to answer the question if principal turnover is associated with a change in a school's…
Descriptors: Principals, Labor Turnover, Teacher Effectiveness, Correlation
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Buske, Ramona – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2018
The study examines the correlation between collective innovativeness of the teaching staff and the principal's leadership style as well as additional school structure characteristics. The construct of collective innovativeness is examined as a precondition of successful school improvement processes driven by the teaching staff. Based on…
Descriptors: Least Squares Statistics, Instructional Innovation, Correlation, Leadership Styles
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Faddar, Jerich; Vanhoof, Jan; De Maeyer, Sven – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2017
School self-evaluation (SSE) often makes use of questionnaires in order to sketch a picture of the school. How respondents cognitively process questionnaire items determines the validity of SSE results. Still, one readily assumes that respondents interpret and answer items as intended by the instrument developer (referred to as cognitive…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Questionnaires, Cognitive Tests, Construct Validity
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De Lisle, Jerome; Seunarinesingh, Krishna; Mohammed, Rhoda; Lee-Piggott, Rinnelle – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2017
In this study, methodology and theory were linked to explicate the nature of education practice within schools facing exceptionally challenging circumstances (SFECC) in Trinidad and Tobago. The research design was an iterative quan>QUAL-quan>qual multi-method research programme, consisting of 3 independent projects linked together by overall…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mixed Methods Research, Research Design, Low Achievement