Professor Wraga is upset that the authors of the special EAQ issue on What will replace the comprehensive high school? contrived a negative image, of the institution and then used it as a straw man. He objects to the issue'a a priori position and goes to far as to suggest that it raises questins of balance and objectivity. syur.
This study explores how teacher teams influence teachers' work characteristics and other work-related variables. The study uses a comparative design to test differences between teamed and nonteamed teacher on work characteristics and work-related variables suggested by Hackman and Oldham's job characretistics model. syur.
In recent, reflective, collaborative, inquiry-oriented approaches to supervision of teachers and teacher development have been discussed in the professional literature. However, few published studies have directly examined teachers' perspective on principals' everday instructional leadership characteristics and the impact of those characteristics on teacher. This article describes the everyday …
Several researchers have suggested that females are less sensitive than males to conditions of salary underpayment and have coined the term paradoxical female. To test the hypothesis addressing the paradoxical fermale and to examine reactions of females and males within competing models for pay satisfaction, a random sample of chieffinancial officers was selected and assessed. syur.
Professional standards for school principals have been developed in many jurisdictions in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom in recent years. Typically, these standars frameworks describe an ideal performance in a generalized context. This article describes an alternative method of developing a standards framework, combining qualitative vignettes with probabilistic measurement…
This study examined leadership for inclusion in three scools using Heller and Firestone's leadership function theory. Data sources inclused interviews with scool personnel and parents, and abservations of inclusion meetings. Analysis revealed not only that all function were carried out by multiple individuals in different roles, but also that people with with and without formal authority made u…
Survey data from an achieved sample of 1, 762 teachers and 9, 941 students in one large Canadian school district were used to explore the relative effects of principal and teacher leadership on student engagement with school. Results demonstrated greater effects of principal as compared to teacher sources of leadership on student engagement. The effects of principal leadership were weak but sig…
Teacher empowerment has been the subject of considerable educational research in recent years, but the capacity of school for organizational learning has received limited empirical attention. This study links these two research streams and identifies those dimensions of the capacity for organizational learning that are also the themes of school restructuring. Data for the study come from 24 sit…
Professional community is receiving markedly increased attention as part of both practitioner and scholarly efforts to promote improvements in instruction and student learning. Interest in this area joins two previously distinct literatures, one dealing with the benefits of communal school organization and another with enhanced teacher professionalism, to formulate a theoretical framework for a…
Previous studies have treated teacher efficacy as a unitary trait without considering how teachers' expectations of their ability to produce student learning varies within teaching assignments. In this study, teachers in nine restructuring secondary school in one district estimated their ability to perform common teaching tasks in four of the courses they expected to teach in the coming school …