Measuring Instructional Leadership Capacity: Reliability and Construct Validity of the Measures of Instructional Leadership Expertise

• In Event: Developing and Measuring Instructional Leadership

Abstract

The field has few validated tools or instruments to measure instructional leadership capacity that can be used to provide diagnostic feedback to school leaders or select future leaders with a strong foundation in instructional leadership. A diagnostic assessment with the potential to serve these purposes is the Measures of Instructional Leadership Expertise (MILE) assessment developed by the Center for Education Leadership (CEL) at the University of Washington. In this study we evaluate whether the assessment is construct valid, reliable, and feasible to use.

Authors

• David S Woo, University of Utah

• Jason A. Grissom, Vanderbilt University

• Ellen B. Goldring, Vanderbilt University