1. Examining school leadership in a transitional context: A mixed-methods study of leadership practices and school cultures as mechanisms of educational change.
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Kovačević, Jasna, Mujkić, Alisa, and Kapo, Amra
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EDUCATIONAL leadership , *EDUCATIONAL change , *SCHOOL environment , *TEACHER effectiveness , *HIERARCHICAL clustering (Cluster analysis) - Abstract
This research presents the results of studies designed to observe the effects of school leadership and school culture as mechanisms of change in the context of a large-scale educational reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A mixed-methods approach was employed to illuminate how institutional context either activates or deactivates leadership and school cultures as mechanisms that influence teacher efficacy beliefs in times of large-scale educational reform. Quantitative and qualitative data were analyzed through three independent studies. Quantitative procedures included measurement model analysis, structural equation modeling and a non-parametric Mann–Whitney U test. The qualitative analytic approach encompassed procedures of content analysis and quantification of qualitative data from reform documents and semi-structured interviews in the form of hierarchical clustering and multidimensional scaling. The triangulation of findings occurred in the interpretation phase, characterized by the development of meta-inferences that go beyond the findings from each study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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