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The Relationship Of Learner-Centered Beliefs Of Principals And Student Achievement, Camela Bonita Dingle Bell
The Relationship Of Learner-Centered Beliefs Of Principals And Student Achievement, Camela Bonita Dingle Bell
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Educators are focused with efforts to improve student achievement through reform and policies; a majority of the efforts are focused on accountability reform. The learner-centered model focuses on school reform that is organized around the personal domain for systemic reform. How principals work with students is greatly influenced by policy and what they believe about student learning and behavior. This dissertation attempted to establish principal beliefs and their effectiveness on student achievement on the End-of-Grade and End-of-Course test in the state North Carolina.
Survey data was collected and analyzed to determine if, and to what extent, significant differences between learner-centered …
Effective Leadership: Perceptions Of Principals And The Teachers They Lead, Pamela Murphy Helms
Effective Leadership: Perceptions Of Principals And The Teachers They Lead, Pamela Murphy Helms
Education Dissertations and Projects
A small public school system in the piedmont of North Carolina was the setting for this study. Individual school data, as well as aggregated data from studied schools were analyzed in order to form overall conclusions of perceptions of leadership within the district. Schools were grouped according to the age of the student (elementary K-5, secondary 6-12) in an effort to provide the opportunity for further data analyses.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the principals' self-reported leadership behaviors and the teachers' perceptions of the principals' leadership behaviors using Kouzes and Posner's Leadership Practices Inventory …