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How Principals of Successful Schools Enact Education Policy: Perceptions and Accounts from Senior and Middle Leaders
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Gu, Qing; Sammons, Pam; Chen, Junjun – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2018
This article investigates, from the perspective of senior and middle leaders, how secondary principals in England lead their schools to achieve sustainable performance despite policy shifts. Empirical data were drawn from structural equation modeling (SEM) analyses of a questionnaire survey from 309 effective and improved secondary schools in…
Descriptors: Principals, Middle Management, Educational Improvement, Secondary Schools
Principals' Learning Mechanisms: Exploring an Emerging Construct
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Schechter, Chen; Qadach, Mowafaq – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2016
This exploration of principal learning mechanisms (PLM) to support a learning-centered school aimed to develop, field-test, and validate a PLM-measuring instrument. Following exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of items to examine factorial validity, the developed scale was correlated with other work-related established constructs (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Principals, Elementary Education, Organizational Development, Factor Analysis
Teachers' Self-Efficacy vs. Parental Involvement: Prediction and Implementation
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Fisher, Yael; Kostelitz, Yifat – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2015
This research examines the influence of teachers' views regarding parental involvement on their perception of self-efficacy. Data were collected from a sample of 319 Israeli elementary schools teachers. A path analysis procedure was employed to test the mediating effect of personal background and organizational variables and perceived parental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Parent Participation