Designing and Measuring Improvement Science Leadership Proficiency

• In Event: Evaluating and Developing Effective School Leaders

Abstract

Improvement science is viewed as a promising approach for continuous school improvement. There has been insufficient attention given to measuring leader’s proficiency to use improvement as an improvement process. One effort is the development and validation of the Improvement Science Leadership Proficiency (ISLP) Survey for Educational Leadership to measure leadership proficiency in improvement science-like work and to measure gains in related skills and capacities over time. This paper presents the promising findings to date based on pilot studies with two cohorts of EdD students, showing strong validity and reliability results.

Authors

• Margaret Terry Orr, Fordham Graduate School of Education

• Sarah Mae Olivar, American Institutes for Research