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School Leadership Is A Critical Term Paper

The dependent measures were pedagogical quality, scores based on assessment quality and academic achievement. The independent measures were leadership, school demographics and control variables. To convert leadership to a measurable variable a framework was given which was constructed from the results of the teacher surveys and observation of the principal and managerial meetings. These outcome measures were suitable for the purpose of the study.

Results and Analysis

Scatterplots were used to show the distribution of schools according to leadership styles. One way analysis of ANOVA was used to compare the means for schools on the measurable characteristics. Hierarchical linear modeling was used to investigate the effect of school leadership on pedagogical quality and academic achievement. This was necessary due to the level of complexity of the multiple variables.

Overall it was found that schools were varied in their levels of the two leadership styles. The study concluded that transformational leadership must be present for instructional leadership to be present,...

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It was found that overall that if both leadership styles coexist within the school this results in significantly higher achievement. The conclusions of the study were sound as they were based on extensive quantitative analysis and were compared to other previous studies which have shown similar results.
Reflection

The implications for practice from the study apply to every school in the country. The study concluded that there must be a co-existence of the two leadership styles if there is to be a significant rise in school achievement. This shows that it is important for the school to ensure that there is not only one style of leadership used, but that the principal and teachers work collaboratively together using a combination of the two styles.

References

Marks, H.M. And Printy, S.M. (2003) Principal leadership and school performance: An integration of transformational and instructional leadership. Educational Administration Quarterly, 39: 370.

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Marks, H.M. And Printy, S.M. (2003) Principal leadership and school performance: An integration of transformational and instructional leadership. Educational Administration Quarterly, 39: 370.

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