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- Title
Effective Schools and Effective Principals: Effective Research?
- Authors
Zirkel, Perry A.; Greenwood, Scott C.
- Abstract
This article discusses several characteristics of effective schools. The U.S. Department of Education issued a booklet entitled "What Works: Research About Teaching and Learning" that listed strong instructional leadership as one of the most characteristics of effective schools. In one of doctoral studies of middle schools, a researcher found that the correlation between principal effectiveness and student achievement was not statistically significant. And although principals on average rated their efforts to assist teachers as moderate, their increased effort was inversely related to teacher-perceived school effectiveness. It was found out that instructional leadership was only one of several value-laden role definitions and that none of these definitions viewed the principal as directly responsible for improving student achievement.
- Subjects
SCHOOLS; SCHOOL administration; SCHOOL principals; ACADEMIC achievement; EDUCATION
- Publication
Teachers College Record, 1987, Vol 89, Issue 2, p255
- ISSN
0161-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/016146818708900204