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Silva, Jack P.; White, George P.; Yoshida, Roland K. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2011
Purpose: School effectiveness and instructional leadership research over the past 30 years has largely concluded that principal effects on student achievement are small and indirect. It has been assumed that the principal effect is important but mediated through other school factors. Findings: This experimental study found that one-on-one…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Middle School Students, Grade 8, Principals
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Klar, Hans W.; Brewer, Curtis A. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the ways principals in three high-needs middle schools enacted core leadership practices in concert with their immediate contexts to institutionalize comprehensive school reforms and support student learning. Research Methods: The schools were selected from a geographically stratified sample of…
Descriptors: Success, Leadership Effectiveness, Educational Administration, Disadvantaged Schools
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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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Uline, Cynthia L.; Miller, Daniel M.; Tschannen-Moran, Megan – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1998
Explores two underlying dimensions of school effectiveness: instrumental and expressive functions. Explores Paul Mott's idea of perceived organizational effectiveness as a concise measure capturing both these dimensions. Tests a model incorporating expressive elements (trust and school health) and instrumental elements (student achievement). Each…
Descriptors: Effective Schools Research, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Characteristics
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Goddard, Roger D.; Sweetland, Scott R.; Hoy, Wayne K. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2000
Examines importance of a school climate characterized by high levels of academic emphasis. Drawing on effective-schools research and social-cognitive theory, uses hierarchical linear modeling to show that academic emphasis accounts for differences among urban elementary schools in student math and reading achievement. (Contains 48 references.)…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Effective Schools Research, Elementary Education, Influences
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Reyes, Pedro; Capper, Colleen A. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1991
Reviews school effects literature concerning student dropouts and critically examines urban principals' viewpoints, focusing on definitions, current practices and proposed solutions, and context considerations. Principals blamed either the individual or the community context for student disengagement from school, relying on support services and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Community Involvement, Context Effect, Definitions