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Shawna Cox; Aaron Gilary; Svetlana Mosina; Jennifer Rhea; Dillon Simon; Teresa Thomas; Chenping Zhang; Maura Spiegelman – National Center for Education Statistics, 2024
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) sponsors the National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS) on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education in order to collect data on public and private schools, principals, and teachers in the United States. The U.S. Census Bureau conducts the survey for NCES. The NTPS provides data on the…
Descriptors: Teachers, Principals, Elementary Secondary Education, Administrators
Cox, Shawna; Gilary, Aaron; Simon, Dillon; Thomas, Teresa – National Center for Education Statistics, 2022
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) sponsors the National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS) on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education in order to collect data on public and private elementary and secondary schools in the United States. The NTPS is a large-scale, nationally representative sample survey of K-12 public and…
Descriptors: Teachers, Principals, Elementary Secondary Education, Administrators
Regional Educational Laboratory Central, 2021
These are the appendixes for the report, "How Nebraska Teachers Use and Perceive Summative, Interim, and Formative Data." This document presents additional information about the study topic: teachers' data use. It begins with a description of the conceptual framework and supporting literature for the scales in the Teacher Data Use Survey…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Data Use, Teacher Attitudes
Garza, Ruben; Ovando, Martha; O'Doherty, Ann – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2016
The accountability pressures of the recent decade require that instructional leaders work with teachers to ensure student academic success. The "walkthrough" or "walkthrough observation" is an instructional leadership practice that has been regarded as a promising avenue to collaboratively work with teachers. This exploratory…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrators, Administrator Attitudes, Accountability
Kelly, Anthony – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2015
This paper introduces and explores the concept of "salutogenesis" as a way of interpreting school leadership research and its findings in two significant areas: its effect on student outcomes and the motivation of incumbents. In its original setting, salutogenesis describes an approach that focuses on health, rather than on disease, but…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Research, Outcomes of Education, Motivation
Yardibi, Nursel – Education, 2014
The purpose of the study is to determine tendencies in educational sciences doctoral dissertations according to divisions, research methods and desings, data collection tools, data analysis techniques, and leadership levels in Turkey. This content analysis study has been desinged with qualitative research methods. This research has been limited by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Doctoral Dissertations, Content Analysis
Gowlett, Christina – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2015
This article takes the role of provocateur to "queer(y)" the rules of intelligibility surrounding new schooling accountabilities. Butler's work is seldom used outside the arena of gender and sexualities research. A "queer(y)ing" methodology is subsequently applied in a context very different to where it is frequently…
Descriptors: Role, Case Studies, Homosexuality, Accountability
Skevakis, Anthony – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this explanatory single-case case study (Yin, 2003) was to investigate teachers' perceptions of a principal's leadership behavior associated with the integration of a one-to-one laptop program in a parochial secondary school. The sample included the school principal and teachers who have had at least one year of teaching experience…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Teaching Experience, Leadership, Principals
Jacob, Robin Tepper; Jacob, Brian – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2012
Teacher and principal surveys are among the most common data collection techniques employed in education research. Yet there is remarkably little research on survey methods in education, or about the most cost-effective way to raise response rates among teachers and principals. In an effort to explore various methods for increasing survey response…
Descriptors: Principals, Data Collection, Test Theory, Response Rates (Questionnaires)
Tourkin, Steven; Thomas, Teresa; Swaim, Nancy; Cox, Shawna; Parmer, Randall; Jackson, Betty; Cole, Cornette; Zhang, Bei – National Center for Education Statistics, 2010
The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) is conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on behalf of the United States Department of Education in order to collect extensive data on American public and private elementary and secondary schools. SASS provides data on the characteristics and qualifications of teachers and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, National Surveys, Public Schools, Private Schools
Goldring, Ellen; Grissom, Jason A.; Neumerski, Christine M.; Murphy, Joseph; Blissett, Richard; Porter, Andy – Wallace Foundation, 2015
This three-volume report describes the "SAM (School Administration Manager) process," an approach that about 700 schools around the nation are using to direct more of principals' time and effort to improve teaching and learning in classrooms. Research has shown that a principal's instructional leadership is second only to teaching among…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Principals, Administrator Role, Educational Improvement
Hamilton, Doug – Journal of International Education and Leadership, 2014
The latest national educational policy in the People's Republic of China calls for comprehensive educational reforms aimed at building the foundation for a modern learning society throughout China over the next 10 years. This research examines school leaders' efforts to implement school improvement initiatives that directly respond to the policy's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Urban Areas
Tourkin, Steven C.; Warner, Toni; Parmer, Randall; Cole, Cornette; Jackson, Betty; Zukerberg, Andrew; Cox, Shawna; Soderberg, Andrew – US Department of Education, 2007
This report serves as the survey documentation for the design and implementation of the 2003-04 Schools and Staffing Survey. Topics covered include the sample design, survey methodology, data collection procedures, data processing, response rates, imputation procedures, weighting and variance estimation, review of the quality of data, the types of…
Descriptors: Surveys, Questionnaires, Data Processing, Research Methodology
Murphy, Joseph; Vriesenga, Michael; Storey, Valerie – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2007
Purpose: The objective of this article is to provide an analysis of articles in "Education Administration Quarterly (EAQ)" over the 25-year period 1979-2003. Approach: The approach is document analysis. Findings: Information is presented on four key themes: (a) types of articles published; (b) methodologies employed; (c) topic areas emphasized;…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Periodicals, Journal Articles, Research Methodology

Simpson, T. A. – Australian Journal of Education, 1976
Investigates principals' behaviors which give rise to feelings of concern and pleasure in teachers generally. Sought to isolate common elements in these behaviors and more fully understand the interaction between principals and teachers. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Research