Mapping Empirical Research on Operationalisations of Successful School Leadership
Author(s):
Conference:
ECER 2011
Format:
Symposium Paper

Session Information

26 SES 09 A, Mapping Theoretical Concepts and Empirical Research of School Leadership

Symposium

Time:
2011-09-15
10:30-12:00
Room:
JK 26/140,G, 38
Chair:
Stephan Gerhard Huber
Discussant:
Olof Johansson

Contribution

The use of these leaderhip concepts are often presented in terms of normative assumptions of successful leadership. This leads to the question about how successful school leadership - the success of school leaders - should be measured. The aim of the third paper is to investigate how the performance of school leaders is operationalised in scientific studies and what measurements are used to assess the performance of school principals in the field of research? In this mapping exercise, empirical studies are coded according to the following a priori categories: year, country, school type, number of performance measurements, kind of measurement (e.g. questionnaire, observation), focus of the measurement (e.g. outcome, behaviour, trait), source of evaluation (principal itself, teachers, parents, school administrators) etc. Moreover, the paper includes a discussion related to the usefulness of indicators and performance measurements used in empirical studies related to methodological aspects as well as practical implications. At last the paper presents suggestions for future operationalisations of performance measurements.

Method

International perspectives on the use of criteria to measure school leaders' performance

Author Information

Guri Skedsmo (presenting / submitting)
University of Oslo
Department of Teacher Education and School Research
Brunnen
Maren Hiltmann (presenting)
University of Teacher Education Central Switzerland
University of Teacher Education Central Switzerland
University of Teacher Education Central Switzerland
University of Teacher Education Central Switzerland

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