Instructional Leadership in a Global Perspective: Lessons From Latin America and Asia

• In Event: Sunday Roundtable Session 7:45 am
  In Roundtable Session: Effective School Leadership: An International Perspective (Table 1)

Abstract

To elevate teacher voice and understand contextual complexity, we design, validate, and compare an instructional leadership scale in four Latin American and two Asian educational systems using results from the 2018 Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS). Observations denote considerable uniformity in leadership practices in the Asian systems and variation in the Latin American systems. Multilevel analysis identified convergence issues that could be addressed by transitioning to a single-level factorial solution. We posit that the difference unveiled by the methodological shift either points to actual homogeneity in leadership practices across schools or the lack of sensitivity by population-level data in capturing instructional leadership. Our study advances methodological debates and highlights the necessity of nuanced considerate of using international educational data.

Authors

• Christian Lazcano, Universidad del Desarrollo

• Xiu Cravens, Vanderbilt University

• Paulo Luis Volante, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile