Can Professional Development Improve School Leadership? Results from a Randomized Control Trial Assessing the Impact of McREL's Balanced Leadership Program on Principals in Rural Michigan Schools

Autor/inn/en	Miller, Robert James; Goddard, Roger D.; Kim, Minjung; Jacob, Robin; Goddard, Yvonne; Schroeder, Patricia
Titel	Can Professional Development Improve School Leadership? Results from a Randomized Control Trial Assessing the Impact of McREL's Balanced Leadership Program on Principals in Rural Michigan Schools
Quelle	In: Educational Administration Quarterly, 52 (2016) 4, S.531-566 (36 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
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Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-161X
DOI	10.1177/0013161X16651926
Schlagwörter	Faculty Development; Instructional Leadership; Principals; Leadership Training; Randomized Controlled Trials; Program Effectiveness; Rural Schools; Outcomes of Education; Experiments; Experimental Groups; Control Groups; Regression (Statistics); Program Evaluation; Surveys; Psychometrics; Factor Analysis; Michigan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Instruction; Leadership; Bildung; Erziehung; Führung; Principal; Schulleiter; Führungslehre; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Erprobung; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Faktorenanalyse
Abstract	Purpose: This multiyear experimental study was designed to examine (1) the causal impact of McREL International's Balanced Leadership® Professional Development (BLPD) program on school principals' learning, beliefs, and behaviors and (2) whether there were differences in the types of outcomes the professional development influenced. Outcomes included principals' reported sense of efficacy, perceptions of school climate, and leadership behaviors. Research Methods: Approximately 100 school principals in rural Michigan were randomly assigned to either a treatment group that was offered 2 years of BLPD training or a control group that conducted business as usual. We employed principal survey data from the first and third years of the School Leadership Improvement Study. The treatment effect on each outcome was assessed through regression analysis, which controlled for baseline scores and school demographics. Findings: Results from the School Leadership Improvement Study show that BLPD participants reported substantively significant growth on the majority of the outcomes targeted by the program. Interestingly, treatment principals were more likely to report growth on broad, school-level outcomes than in areas that involved them working directly with teachers. Implications: This evaluation demonstrates that the McREL Balanced Leadership program caused gains in the majority of knowledge, belief, and behavior outcomes with the largest impacts on principals' sense of efficacy for instructional improvement, reported ability to bring about change, and strength of norms for teachers' instructional practice. The authors explore possibilities for why broad, school-level outcomes were more likely to be affected than areas that involve principals more directly in teachers' work. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01