A Statewide Study of the Effects of the National Institute for School Leadership’s Executive Development Program on School Performance in Pennsylvania

• In Event: Leading Change in Schools

Abstract

The National Institute of School Leadership’s (NISL's) Executive Development Program (EDP) was established to provide professional development to school leaders to drive their schools to high performance. This study examined the impact of EDP on student achievement in Pennsylvania schools from 2006-2010. It updates and extends a prior evaluation which found that elementary, middle, and high schools served by EDP principals had significantly larger gains in the percentages of students achieving proficiency in reading and mathematics. Utilizing hierarchical linear modeling, the present study found statistically significant longitudinal effects of the EDP program on student achievement in mathematics and reading/English Language Arts.

Authors

• John A. Nunnery, Old Dominion University

• Cherng-Jyh Yen, Old Dominion University

• Steven M. Ross, Johns Hopkins University

• Shana L. Pribesh, Old Dominion University

• Elizabeth Hoag Carhart, Old Dominion University