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Goldring, Ellen; Porter, Andrew; Murphy, Joseph; Elliott, Stephen N.; Cravens, Xiu – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2009
Effective school leadership is key to students' academic success. But the development of effective school leadership has been seriously hampered by the lack of technically sound tools to assess and monitor leaders' performance. This article presents the research base and conceptual framework for a leadership assessment instrument under…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Principals, Administrator Evaluation, Academic Achievement
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Heck, Ronald H.; And Others – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1990
Summarizes a study that tested a theoretical model concerning elementary and secondary school principals' influence on student achievement. Results showed that 3 latent instructional leadership variables (school governance, instructional organization, and school climate) affected student achievement. Includes 54 references. (MLH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Behavior Patterns, Educational Environment
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Colon, Robert J. – NASSP Bulletin, 1994
The principal's role must change to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Administrative thinking must shift from efficiency to effectiveness. This article presents an Iceberg Model to enable the administrator to become an instructional leader by building a knowledge base, developing a philosophy and vision, and modifying observable behavior.…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Behavior Patterns, Educational Philosophy
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Moorhead, Roslyn; Nediger, William – Journal of Educational Administration, 1991
A two-year study of four effective secondary school principals suggests that a principal's actions can be represented by a value-based model (or Markov chain) in which beliefs and values lead to goals, activities, and outcomes. Findings show that no one value set brings about more effective leadership than another. (27 references) (MLH)
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Behavior Patterns, Leadership Effectiveness, Leadership Qualities
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Marcoulides, George A.; Heck, Ronald H. – Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education, 1993
Adequacy of a model of administrative leadership and differences in the model across groups of principals and assistant principals were studied for 150 principals and 150 assistant principals. The model, which hypothesizes three domains of school leadership, fit the data well. Principals and assistant principals have rather similar views of…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Assistant Principals, Attitude Measures, Behavior Patterns
Hayes, Andrew E. – 1973
This study serves as a basis for revisions of the Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire (OCDQ) and as the second part of a larger study in which the conceptual model of climate introduced by Halpin and Croft, and the OCDQ, will be revised. The purposes were (1) to determine the factor structure of the OCDQ when a large, national sample…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Computer Programs, Discriminant Analysis, Factor Analysis