Development and Validation of the Distributed Leadership Scale

• In Event: Roundtable Session 26
  In Roundtable Session: Accounting for Parental Influence: School Readiness, Enrollment, and Achievement

Abstract

The purposes of the study are to develop the Distributed Leadership Scale and test its reliability and validity. Through stratified random sampling, there are 176 pretest samples and 976 formal samples. Reliability and validity of the Distributed Leadership Scale are validated by confirmatory factor analysis. Distributed Leadership Scale is divided into five dimensions: principals’ self-confidence and modesty, clarity of structure and accountability, investment in staff’s leadership capacity, construction of a school culture of trust, and construction of a proper turning point, for a total of 26 items. In the future, distributed leadership research can be conducted according to this scale. Distributed leadership Scale can serve as reference for school leaders’ self-examination and improvement in daily leadership.

Author

• Chih Feng Lai, Feng Chia University