The Principal as a Key Actor in Promoting Teachers' Innovativeness--Analyzing the Innovativeness of Teaching Staff with Variance-Based Partial Least Square Modeling

Autor/in	Buske, Ramona
Titel	The Principal as a Key Actor in Promoting Teachers' Innovativeness--Analyzing the Innovativeness of Teaching Staff with Variance-Based Partial Least Square Modeling
Quelle	In: School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 29 (2018) 2, S.262-284 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Buske, Ramona)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0924-3453
DOI	10.1080/09243453.2018.1427606
Schlagwörter	Least Squares Statistics; Instructional Innovation; Correlation; Leadership Styles; Principals; Educational Improvement; Institutional Characteristics; Structural Equation Models; Hypothesis Testing; Questionnaires; Teacher Surveys; Administrator Surveys; Vocational Schools; Elementary Secondary Education; Predictor Variables; Foreign Countries; Regression (Statistics); Germany (Berlin) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Educational Innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Korrelation; Führungsstil; Principal; Schulleiter; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Fragebogen; Vocational school; Berufsbildende Schule; Berufsschule; Fachschule; Prädiktor; Ausland; Regression; Regressionsanalyse
Abstract	The study examines the correlation between collective innovativeness of the teaching staff and the principal's leadership style as well as additional school structure characteristics. The construct of collective innovativeness is examined as a precondition of successful school improvement processes driven by the teaching staff. Based on theoretical interdisciplinary analyses and empirical findings, the examined hypothesis was that the principal's leadership directly and positively influences the collective innovativeness of the teaching staff. The results of the structural equation modeling (partial least squares regression) indicate that the principal's leadership style is the strongest predictor of teachers' collective innovativeness and, together with the teaching staff's perception of hierarchical structures and autonomy within the school, explained 51% of variance in the construct. The paper highlights important aspects of principals' leadership styles that can encourage collective innovativeness among teachers. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01