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Teachers' Perceptions Of Elementary School Principals' Leadership Attributes And Their Relationship To School Effectiveness, Dyana Ontai-Machado Ontai-Machado
Teachers' Perceptions Of Elementary School Principals' Leadership Attributes And Their Relationship To School Effectiveness, Dyana Ontai-Machado Ontai-Machado
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Schools in Hawaii are continuing to struggle with low student performance on their state's mandated test. Principal leadership has been found to have a direct impact on school effectiveness and researchers have indicated that school effectiveness can also be predicted by teachers' perceptions of principal leadership. This quantitative study was an examination of the relationships between teachers' perceptions of their principals' leadership attributes and school effectiveness as measured by the Strive HI Index in the state of Hawaii. The theoretical framework was grounded in Leithwood's core effective principal practices. A 41-item questionnaire from Colorado Education Initiative with a Cronbach's alpha …