The More the Merrier? A Network Analysis of Construct Redundancy in School Leadership Literature

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Abstract

This paper evaluates construct validity in school leadership literature. Construct validity refers to a unifying form of validity for measurements. Network analysis was conducted to examine content validity, defined as the extent to which a measure’s survey items reflect a theoretical content domain. A total of 43 constructs overlapped with one another in 29 articles that used Teaching and Learning International Survey data. The findings suggest a need to prune constructs in school leadership.

Authors

• Yinying Wang, Georgia State University
  Presenting Author

• Joonkil Ahn, University of Arizona
  Presenting Author