The purpose of the research designed in the relational survey model, one of the quantitative research methods, is to analyze the relationship between teachers' participation in decision-making, job satisfaction, and organizational justice perceptions. The target population of the research consists of 3400 teachers working in secondary schools in…

Transformer architectures contribute to managing long-term dependencies for natural language processing, representing one of the most recent changes in the field. These architectures are the basis of the innovative, cutting-edge large language models (LLMs) that have produced a huge buzz in several fields and industrial sectors, among the ones…

This paper investigates how professional learning of teachers might be improved by two key factors: distributed leadership and teacher agency. Designed as a cross-sectional survey, this study used data from a total of 283 teachers working in a mix of public primary, secondary, and high schools across nine provinces in the eastern, central, and…

The curriculum development process is complex and developing a worthwhile process to support curriculum inception is a valuable endeavour. This paper explores the experiences of the curriculum development process through the lens of an expert advisory committee charged with developing a post-primary curriculum for publicly managed schools in line…

Teachers' active role in school development has been recognized as important in school culture transformation. Leadership practices, such as distributed leadership and organizational support, aim to engage teachers and foster their participation and contribution opportunities. However, studies have shown that teachers' earlier experiences and…

Purpose: This study empirically examines the impact of motivation, transformational leadership and involvement in strategic planning (SP) on academic staff performance at higher education institutions (HEIs). It also examines how academics' involvement in SP mediates the associations between motivation, transformational leadership and performance.…

This program evaluation delves into the hybridization of implementation science and traditional site planning at ABC Elementary. Over an 18-month period, this evaluation utilizes an array of instruments within the principal's professional duties, including reflective notes, internal documents, and developmental materials. These tools are aimed at…

The aim of this research is to reveal the effect of teachers' participation in administrative decisions and their willingness to participate in decisions on school effectiveness. Predictive survey model was used in the study. In the 2021-2022 academic year, 283 teachers working in Istanbul's Sultanbeyli, Pendik, Maltepe and Kartal districts formed…

Blended learning has been growing and evolving in higher education since the early 2000s. Despite extensive quantitative research examining blended course use and exploration of how students experience blended-courses, more situated, local research about faculty members' experiences was needed. The purpose of this qualitative study was to develop…

This study aimed to discuss the influence of teachers' organizational silence on job performance and the serial mediation effect of psychological empowerment -- organizational commitment. This research surveyed 564 primary and secondary school teachers in China through questionnaires. The quantitative analysis shows that teachers' organizational…

Despite the importance of understanding teacher empowerment and silence to help address issues of teacher shortage and well-being and improve school-based consultation, research on the topic has been understudied and undertheorized, particularly for new teachers. To fill this research gap, we carried out a constructivist grounded theory-based…

While there has been an emphasis within the Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) literature on decentralizing university governance to allow for antiracist decision-making, there has been less focus on the lack of inclusive representation within faculty governance, particularly for historically excluded groups. Guided by testimonio as methodology…

The purpose of this study is to explore Chinese faculty' participation in university governance arrangements based on solid empirical data. This study found that the Chinese faculty's participation in university governance was primarily concerned with faculty's participation in academic committees and professors' meetings at both departmental and…

Educational reform in the United States has been flawed since the first big attempt when "A Nation at Risk" was released under President Ronald Reagan. As our first national educational "shake-up," this document set afire educational reform that continues today. It vilified the educational system, teachers, and teaching, and…

In the new context of comprehensively deepening education reform and school management oriented towards distributed leadership, analyzing the influencing factors of teachers' professional development to improve teachers' professional development is of great significance in strengthening the construction of the teaching force and promoting the…