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Quality evidence about leadership for organizational and student learning in schools

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posted on 2023-05-16, 17:00 authored by William MulfordWilliam Mulford
Where do those in schools start sorting the wheat from the chaff, genuine growth potions offering long-term improvement from the elixirs, short-term opportunism and/or unrealistic expectations? The current and growing emphasis on evidence informed policy and practice is as good a place as any. The purpose of this article is to take up the issues of the complexity and predictive validity of evidence, that is, the need for evidence to be complex enough to come close to the reality faced by schools and evidence that seeks to link leadership and student outcomes. Arising from detailed qualitative and quantitative research, two models are presented for consideration that, it is argued, better reflect this complexity and predictive validity than previous work in the field.

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Publication title

School Leadership and Management

Volume

25

Issue

4

Pagination

321-330

ISSN

1363-2434

Department/School

Faculty of Education

Publisher

Routledge: Taylor and Francis

Place of publication

UK

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The definitive published version is available online at: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals

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Other education and training not elsewhere classified

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