...Jason A. Grissom; Susanna Loeb; Hajime Mitani Purpose – Time demands faced by school principals make principals’ work increasingly difficult. Research outside education suggests that effective time management skills may help principals meet job demands, reduce job stress, and improve...

..., and student learning in school improvement. The study's primary goal is to shed light on the paths through which leadership influences student learning. At the school level, the model examines the mediating effect of the school's instructional environment on leadership and student learning. At the classroom...

...Maria Eliophotou Menon Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the link between transformational/transactional/passive-avoidant leadership behaviors, teachers’ perceptions of leader effectiveness and teachers’ job satisfaction. In this context, the paper also examines the conceptual...

.... Although the exercise of power is viewed among the main factors explaining followers’ willingness to comply with leaders’ demands and means to promote school effectiveness, it is rather surprising that the educational administration literature lacks substantial evidence testifying to the mediating effect...

... the perceived effectiveness of PDS on teachers’ practice as realized by a purposeful sample of Midwest PDS teachers and principals. PDS has improved teacher practice in several areas. However, teachers’ and principals’ perceptions of teacher practice are not congruent. The teacher, administrator, and university...

...Anat Drach‐Zahavy; Anit Somech Explores the origins of school‐staff team effectiveness by focusing on team characteristics, especially on team heterogeneity and team support. Based on educational and organizational theory, we derived propositions about how heterogeneity may affect team support...

... empowerment scale but lacking the breadth to place empowerment in the broader network of psychological constructs. Matthes (1986) cited self‐worth, efficacy and empowerment as keys to effective schools. Glickman (1990, p. 69) emphasized the importance of teacher empowerment by stating, “I believe...

... development opportunities for principals in order to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of principals in their jobs. With the challenges and demands of the changing educational environment in PNG now, more effective principals equipped with leadership and organizational knowledge and skills are required...

... of this initiative which focused on improving the working conditions of teachers. In 1994, the third strategy began with educational researchers focusing attention on the classroom effectiveness and the need for better instructional materials and improvements in the teaching/learning process. The continued study...

... of schooling. 1. (1) experienced success in the curriculum she or he has studied; 2. (2) actively participated in the effective functioning of ethical and democratic relationships within the school community; 3. (3) gained a nationally portable credential that provides possible entry...

... to the overall relationship between school health and robustness. Apparently, when schools are healthy and robust, academic emphasis is a predominant organizational theme. Schools Teachers Organizations Effectiveness Drama, when it is well written, staged with craftsmanship and performed by talented...

... practices that promoted positive teacher perceptions of school organisation and of students’ learning, attitudes, and school involvement. Path analysis was used to test a model of school effectiveness involving seven variables: sector, type size, and teacher views of leadership effects, school and student...

... of the educational marketplace; others are associated with the concept based for New Labour educational policy, the school effectiveness movement; and yet others derive from an inadequate understanding of the nature of leadership and management in schools which leads to an over‐emphasis on the role of the school...

...Mary M. Harris; Donald J. Willower Hypotheses on principals’ optimism, teacher perceptions of that optimism, and of school effectiveness were tested. The school was the unit of analysis. Teachers and principals in 50 secondary schools responded to two standard measures. To avoid same respondent...

...Kai‐ming Cheng; Kam‐cheung Wong Identifies several features in East Asian schools which coincide with commonly recognized characteristics of effective schools in the Western literature: community support, teacher professionalism, attention to quality and high expectations. Attributes...

... and use of power are interrelated in process of leading a class of students. Leadership style was found to be strongly related to social climate and student‐affective performance. The leadership style of “high initiating structure and high consideration” should be preferable and effective in terms...

...Judith Chapman Discusses the concept of “school effectiveness” and the theories behind the research reported in the literature – which is reviewed. Both the so‐called scientific approach and the multi‐paradigmatic approach have limitations; an “evolutionary epistemology” is preferred. © MCB UP...

...Connie S. Logan; Chad D. Ellett; Joseph W. Licata Explores the relationships between teacher perceptions of the structural coupling in their schools and their perceptions of school robustness and effectiveness in a research study of 73 participating schools. Pearson product‐moment correlations...

...Vivian J. Hajnal; Dennis J. Dibski Emphasizes the need for coherence between the reward structure and the organizational culture of effective schools. Provides a framework for discussion which includes a typology of rewards, including pecuniary, non‐pecuniary extrinsic and intrinsic rewards...

...Neil A. Johnson; Edward A. Holdaway The job satisfaction and effectiveness of principals, the effectiveness of their schools, and relationships among those three variables were investigated by questionnaires and interviews involving elementary school teachers, principals, and area superintendents...