Developing and Validating an Instrument Measuring School Leadership

• In Event: Poster Session 11
  In Poster Session: Division A Graduate Student Poster Session

Abstract

In this study, we developed and validated an instrument that researchers can use to measure the collective effort of principals and teachers who excise their own unique leadership to generate (integrated) school leadership. We found sound psychometric properties of the scales of the instrument and the instrument as a whole and the instrument can indeed measure the kind of school leadership that really matters to student achievement.

Authors

• Jianping Shen, Western Michigan University

• Xin Ma, University of Kentucky

• Xingyuan Gao, Western Michigan University

• Louann Bierlein Palmer, Western Michigan University

• Sue Poppink, Western Michigan University

• Walter Burt, Western Michigan University

• Robert Leneway

• Dennis McCrumb

• Charles Pearson

• Mark Rainey, Western Michigan University

• Patricia Lee Reeves, Western Michigan University

• Gary Wegenke