Making Sense of Principals’ Efficacy in Chilean Elementary Schools

• In Event: Roundtable Session 116
  In Roundtable Session: Leadership and Learning Roundtable

Abstract

This analysis is based on a national study of school leadership in Chile. Surveys were administered to school directors and teachers in 649 urban elementary schools across Chile’s three education sectors: municipal schools, government subsidized private schools, and non-subsidized private schools. Using correlation and regression analysis, the paper explores the relationships between survey measures of principals’ sense of efficacy to improve the quality of teaching and learning and various factors identified in prior research as influencing principals’ confidence in their ability to improve their schools: personal variables (education, experience, age, gender), context (school sector, size, pupil), external support (funding, resources), internal support (e.g., instructional leaders), and student performance on national achievement tests.

Authors

• Stephen E. Anderson, University of Toronto

• Javiera Marfan Sanchez, Fundacion Chile

• Andrea Horn Kupfer, Fundacion Chile