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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
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Levy-Vered, Adi; Alhija, Fadia Nasser-Abu – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2015
Teachers devote a substantial amount of their time to assessment-related activities. This study aimed to describe beginning teachers' assessment literacy and to examine a structural model that binds assessment literacy with assessment training, self-efficacy, and conceptions of assessment. Data were collected from 327 Israeli inductee teachers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy
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Kasekende, Francis; Munene, John C.; Otengei, Samson Omuudu; Ntayi, Joseph Mpeera – International Journal of Educational Management, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine relationship between teacher competences and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) with empowerment as a mediating factor. Design/methodology/approach: The study took a cross-sectional descriptive and analytical design. Using cluster and random sampling procedures, data were obtained from 383…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Organizational Culture, Citizenship, Teacher Empowerment
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Campbell, Corbin M.; Cabrera, Alberto F. – Research in Higher Education, 2014
Assessing gains in learning has received increased attention as one dimension of institutional accountability both in the USA (Arum and Roksa, Academically adrift: Limited learning on college campuses, 2011) and abroad (OECD, http://www.oecd.org/document/22/0,3746,en_2649_39263238_40624662_1_1_1_1,00.html, 2013,…
Descriptors: College Students, Grades (Scholastic), Grade Point Average, Correlation
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Acosta, Sandra; Hsu, Hsien-Yuan – Educational Studies, 2014
This study investigated parent general value of science operationalized in the 2006 questionnaire of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), as a determinant of adolescents' scientific literacy performance. The transmission of academic values literature is small. To the best of our knowledge, no previous studies to date have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Scientific Literacy, Educational Assessment
Akilli, Mustafa – Online Submission, 2015
The aim of this study is to demonstrate the science success regression levels of chosen emotional features of 8th grade students using Structural Equation Model. The study was conducted by the analysis of students' questionnaires and science success in TIMSS 2011 data using SEM. Initially, the factors that are thought to have an effect on science…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Science Achievement, Structural Equation Models, Secondary School Science
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Brown, Gavin T. L.; Kennedy, Kerry J.; Fok, Ping Kwan; Chan, Jacqueline Kin Sang; Yu, Wai Ming – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2009
Hong Kong is seeking to increase the use of "assessment for learning" rather than rely on "assessment of learning" through summative examinations. Nearly 300 teachers from 14 primary and secondary schools answered a Chinese translation of the Teachers' Conceptions of Assessment inventory and a new Practices of Assessment…
Descriptors: School Culture, Structural Equation Models, Student Improvement, Educational Change