Principals' Learning Mechanisms: Exploring an Emerging Construct

Autor/inn/en	Schechter, Chen; Qadach, Mowafaq
Titel	Principals' Learning Mechanisms: Exploring an Emerging Construct
Quelle	In: Leadership and Policy in Schools, 15 (2016) 2, S.141-167 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1570-0763
DOI	10.1080/15700763.2015.1031256
Schlagwörter	Principals; Elementary Education; Organizational Development; Factor Analysis; Validity; Instructional Leadership; Teacher Administrator Relationship; Information Dissemination; Educational Assessment; Questionnaires; Organizational Communication; Experiential Learning; Learning Processes; Interviews; Pilot Projects; Foreign Countries; Structural Equation Models; Information Retrieval; Israel + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Principal; Schulleiter; Elementarunterricht; Organisationsentwicklung; Faktorenanalyse; Gültigkeit; Instruction; Leadership; Bildung; Erziehung; Führung; Informationsverbreitung; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Fragebogen; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Learning process; Lernprozess; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Pilot project; Modellversuch; Pilotprojekt; Ausland
Abstract	This exploration of principal learning mechanisms (PLM) to support a learning-centered school aimed to develop, field-test, and validate a PLM-measuring instrument. Following exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of items to examine factorial validity, the developed scale was correlated with other work-related established constructs (e.g., principal's instructional leadership, teacher's organizational commitment). Findings revealed that the four-factor model (Storing and retrieving, Receiving, Disseminating, and Analyzing) was the best fit between the empirical results and the conceptual formulation. The PLM may prove an efficient tool for principals to assess how to promote learning in and by the organization. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01