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School District Contributions to Students' Math and Language Achievement

International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership

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Title School District Contributions to Students' Math and Language Achievement
 
Creator Handford, Victoria
Leithwood, Kenneth
 
Subject Education; Policy; Leadership
School districts effects; School Leadership: District Improvement Processes
 
Description Conducted in British Columbia, this mixed-methods study tested the effects of nine district characteristics on student achievement, explored conditions that mediate the effects of such characteristics, and contributed to understandings about the role school-level leaders play in district efforts to improve achievement. Semistructured interview data from 37 school administrators provided qualitative data. Quantitative data were provided by the responses of 998 school and district leaders’ in 21 districts to two surveys. Student achievement data were district-level results of elementary and secondary student provincial math and language test scores. All nine district characteristics contributed significantly to student achievement. Three conditions served as especially powerful mediators of such district effects. The same conditions, as well as others, acted as significant mediators of school-level leader effects on achievement. This is among the few large-scale mixed-methods studies identifying characteristics of districts explaining variation in student achievement.
 
Publisher IJEPL is a joint publication of PDK International, SFU, GMU, and UDel
 
Contributor British Columbia School Superintendents Association
 
Date 2019-02-07
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Mixed-Method
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journals.sfu.ca/ijepl/index.php/ijepl/article/view/863
10.22230/ijepl.2019v14n9a863
 
Source International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership; Vol 14, No 9 (2019): School Districts’ Contributions to Students’ Math and Language Achievement
1555-5062
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journals.sfu.ca/ijepl/index.php/ijepl/article/view/863/200
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2019 Victoria Handford
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