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Changing Of The Guard In Community Colleges: The Role Of Leadership Development, Pamela L. Eddy
Changing Of The Guard In Community Colleges: The Role Of Leadership Development, Pamela L. Eddy
School of Education Book Chapters
The complexity of the decisions that today’s higher education leaders face―as they engage with a diversifying student body, globalization and technological advances―requires embracing new ways of thinking about leadership.
This book examines the new theories and concepts of leadership that are described in the multidisciplinary literature on leadership, and are being applied in other sectors―from government to the non-profit and business communities―to explore the implications for leaders and leadership programs in higher education.
At a time when the heroic, controlling, and distant leader of the past has given way to a focus on teams, collectives and social change, the contributors …
Organizational Citizenship Behaviors, Collective Teacher Efficacy, And Student Achievement In Elementary Schools, Jeffrey C. Jackson
Organizational Citizenship Behaviors, Collective Teacher Efficacy, And Student Achievement In Elementary Schools, Jeffrey C. Jackson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study sought to examine relationship between teacher organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB), collective teacher efficacy (CTE), and student achievement in urban elementary schools. A convenience sample of 1,327 teachers from 35 elementary schools from a single urban school district completed surveys designed to measure OCB and CTE. Student achievement data were based on performance on the Virginia Standards of Learning exams for grade 3 and 5 mathematics and reading.;Pearson correlation statistics revealed a significant positive relationship between OCB and CTE. Significant positive relationships were found between OCB and student achievement scores in grade 3 mathematics, grade 5 mathematics, and grade …