Finding the missing link: Do principal qualifications make a difference in student achievement?

2021 ◽  
pp. 174114322110519
Author(s):  
Sedat Gümüş ◽  
Mehmet Şükrü Bellibaş ◽  
Sedat Şen ◽  
Philip Hallinger
Keyword(s):  
Student Achievement ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
International Student ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
School Management ◽  
Principal Training ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
Management Positions

Despite the growing scholarly interest in the effects of principal leadership on student achievement, empirical evidence concerning how principal qualifications might be related to student learning outcomes has been limited. This study investigates the relationship between different principal qualifications (prior experience in teaching, principalship and other school management roles, formal education, principal training, and professional development) and student achievement by analyzing cross-national teaching and learning international survey and program on international student assessment data from seven countries. The results showed that experience in principalship and other school management positions, principal training, and participation in networking activities and teaching/pedagogy-focused seminars had small but statistically significant associations with student achievement, though the results were not consistent across different subjects. Level of education and years of teaching experience did not, however, predict student achievement. Implications of the findings are offered for policy and further research.

Principals and Student Achievement

2018 ◽  
pp. 84-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Marshall Perry ◽  
Karen M. Sealy ◽  
Héctor X. Ramírez-Pérez ◽  
Thomas C. DeNicola ◽  
Yair Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Student Achievement ◽  
Instructional Leadership ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
School Context ◽  
School Level ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
Context Specific

Connections between principal leadership activities, school context, and student achievement are examined within this paper. Data for this quantitative study are from the 2013 Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) and the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The eight countries of examination participated in both the TALIS and PISA and the researchers merged datasets, yielding a study sample of 1,301 schools. This paper supports a context-specific view of instructional leadership. When looking across countries, the researchers found different practices were more strongly associated with the academic achievement of students, and suggest that school leaders have a meaningful overall relationship with academic achievement, both directly and indirectly. This study therefore supports prior research about the direct and indirect effects of instructional leadership. Further study, which accounts for differences in family academic resources and school-level opportunities to learn, will better illuminate the connection between instructional leadership practices and academic achievement.

Principals and Student Achievement

2021 ◽  
pp. 1378-1404
Author(s):  
S. Marshall Perry ◽  
Karen M. Sealy ◽  
Héctor X. Ramírez-Pérez ◽  
Thomas C. DeNicola ◽  
Yair Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Student Achievement ◽  
Instructional Leadership ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
School Context ◽  
School Level ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
Context Specific

Connections between principal leadership activities, school context, and student achievement are examined within this paper. Data for this quantitative study are from the 2013 Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) and the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The eight countries of examination participated in both the TALIS and PISA and the researchers merged datasets, yielding a study sample of 1,301 schools. This paper supports a context-specific view of instructional leadership. When looking across countries, the researchers found different practices were more strongly associated with the academic achievement of students, and suggest that school leaders have a meaningful overall relationship with academic achievement, both directly and indirectly. This study therefore supports prior research about the direct and indirect effects of instructional leadership. Further study, which accounts for differences in family academic resources and school-level opportunities to learn, will better illuminate the connection between instructional leadership practices and academic achievement.

scholarly journals The Association Between Parent Participation in School Management and Student Achievement in Eight Countries and Economies

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Jutaro Sakamoto
Keyword(s):  
Student Achievement ◽  
International Student ◽  
Parent Participation ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
School Management ◽  
Parental Engagement ◽  
School Level ◽  
Learning In Context ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
International Student Assessment

Parent participation in school management has been promoted as a strategy for holding schools accountable for education quality and outcomes. However, the evidence has proven inconclusive and limited in explaining mechanisms to affect student achievement. By using public school student data derived from the Programme for International Student Assessment 2015, this study examines how 1) participation of a student’s own parents in school management, which would affect their learning support at home and 2) participation of a group of parents, which would influence school decisions and thus affect the learning environment at school, are associated with student achievement in Croatia, Georgia, Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Korea, Hong Kong, and Macao. I found no evidence that parent participation in school management contributed to improving student achievement. Instead, depending on the country, a negative association is derived from either individual-level or school-level parent participation. The associations are not moderated by parents’ socioeconomic status but by school’s openness to parental engagement in some of the countries, indicating that what matters might not be participation per se but the degree of engagement. The findings underscore the importance of understanding mechanisms and conditions in which parent participation affects student learning in context to design effective participatory school governance.

TIMSS 2015: Illustrating Advancements in Large-Scale International Assessments

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 752-781
Author(s):  
Michael O. Martin ◽  
Ina V.S. Mullis
Keyword(s):  
Student Achievement ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
International Student ◽  
Variance Estimation ◽  
International Association ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Population Sampling ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
International Assessments ◽  
Matrix Sampling

International large-scale assessments of student achievement such as International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and Progress in International Reading Literacy Study and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Program for International Student Assessment that have come to prominence over the past 25 years owe a great deal in methodological terms to pioneering work by National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Using TIMSS as an example, this article describes how a number of core techniques, such as matrix sampling, student population sampling, item response theory scaling with population modeling, and resampling methods for variance estimation, have been adapted and implemented in an international context and are fundamental to the international assessment effort. In addition to the methodological contributions of NAEP, this article illustrates how the large-scale international assessments go beyond measuring student achievement by representing important aspects of community, home, school, and classroom contexts in ways that can be used to address issues of importance to researchers and policymakers.

scholarly journals 2018 Australian TALIS-PISA Link Report

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kylie Hillman ◽  
Sue Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Background Characteristics ◽  
School Life ◽  
School Factors ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
Pisa Data

Australia was one of nine countries and economies to participate in the 2018 TALIS-PISA link study, together with Cuidad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (Argentina), Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Georgia, Malta, Turkey and Viet Nam. This study involved coordinating the samples of schools that participated in the Program of International Student Assessment (PISA, a study of the performance of 15-year-old students) and the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS, a study that surveys teachers and principals in lower secondary schools) in 2018. A sample of teachers from schools that were selected to participate in PISA were invited to respond to the TALIS survey. TALIS data provides information regarding the background, beliefs and practices of lower secondary teachers and principals, and PISA data delivers insights into the background characteristics and cognitive and non-cognitive skills of 15-year-old students. Linking these data offers an internationally comparable dataset combining information on key education stakeholders. This report presents results of analyses of the relationships between teacher and school factors and student outcomes, such as performance on the PISA assessment, expectations for further study and experiences of school life. Results for Australia are presented alongside those of the average (mean) across all countries and economies that participated in the TALIS-PISA link study for comparison, but the focus remains on what relationships were significant among Australian students.

Moving beyond Country Rankings in International Assessments: The Case of PISA

2015 ◽  
Vol 117 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Nancy Perry ◽  
Kadriye Ercikan
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
International Student ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Approaches To Learning ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
International Assessments ◽  
Motivation For Learning ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Pisa Data

The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) was designed by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to evaluate the quality, equity, and efficiency of school systems around the world. Specifically, the PISA has assessed 15-year-old students’ reading, mathematics, and science literacy on a 3-year cycle, since 2000. Also, the PISA collects information about how those outcomes are related to key demographic, social, economic, and educational variables. However, the preponderance of reports involving PISA data focus on achievement variables and cross-national comparisons of achievement variables. Challenges in evaluating achievement of students from different cultural and educational settings and data concerning students’ approaches to learning, motivation for learning, and opportunities for learning are rarely reported. A main goal of this themed issue of Teachers College Record (TCR) is to move the conversation about PISA data beyond achievement to also include factors that affect achievement (e.g., SES, home environment, strategy use). Also we asked authors to consider how international assessment data can be used for improving learning and education and what appropriate versus inappropriate inferences can be made from the data. In this introduction, we synthesize the six articles in this issue and themes that cut across them. Also we examine challenges associated with using data from international assessments, like the PISA, to inform education policy and practice within and across countries. We conclude with recommendations for collecting and using data from international assessments to inform research, policy, and teaching and learning.

scholarly journals Results of an Exploratory Analysis of PISA 2015 Survey of Student Participation in Outside-School-Time Programs

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2019) ◽  
pp. 36-59
Author(s):  
Larry E. Suter
Keyword(s):  
Student Achievement ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Study Time ◽  
School Subject ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
School Time ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Formal School

The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) by the OECD measures student study time during formal school periods and during periods of out-of-school-time (OST). The purpose of these items is to account for differences in country to country achievement levels. However, analyses of the impact of additional study time on student achievement have produced conflicting results across countries. While more time given to a school subject within formal school is positively related to achievement in that topic, more time spent on OST is negatively related to average achievement between and within countries. The paper proposes a reconceptualization of OST and achievement by integrating theoretical frameworks of study time, student abilities, and student feelings of efficacy. The results of a descriptive and conceptual analysis of a set of new survey items in the 2015 PISA for 22 countries shows that students benefit from additional study time by having increased feelings of efficacy in a school subject (such as science) but not in measurable levels of achievement. While country to country levels OST participation rates are different, the patterns of relationships between OST participation, student achievement, and attitudes are similar.

scholarly journals CONDIÇÕES DE TRABALHO DOS PROFESSORES E DESEMPENHO ESTUDANTIL: uma análise crítica sobre as perspectivas da OCDE

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 539
Author(s):  
Rose Meri Trojan ◽  
Vanessa Cristiane Corrêa
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Economic Globalization ◽  
Theoretical Studies ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
Current Context ◽  
The Subject ◽  
International Assessment

Resumo: A partir do atual contexto de globalização da economia, este artigo apresenta uma análise das possibilidades do Programa Internacional de Avaliação de Estudantes (PISA) e da Pesquisa Internacional sobre Ensino e Aprendizagem (TALIS), da Organização de Cooperação e Desenvolvimento Econômico (OCDE), que se propõem a orientar políticas nacionais e promover a comparação internacional. Assim, o objetivo é apontar problemas, tendências e demandas para futuras investigações, a partir do exame dos relatórios divulgados pela OCDE. A metodologia adotada incluiu um estudo acerca dos documentos publicados pela OCDE, confrontando com estudos teóricos sobre políticas educacionais e dados disponibilizados para comparação, privilegiando Brasil, Espanha e México, que fazem parte de um projeto mais amplo, sobre os aportes das pesquisas internacionais. O artigo não pretende apresentar resultados conclusivos, mas alertar a propósito dos limites desses programas internacionais de avaliação.Palavras-chave: Políticas educacionais, avaliação educacional, PISA, TALIS.TEACHERS’ WORKING CONDITIONS AND STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE: a critical analysis on OECD perspectives Abstract: From the current context of economic globalization, this article presents the possibilities of the Program for International Student Assessment ((PISA) and of the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS), from the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that purport to guide national policies and promote international comparison. The objective is to point out problems, trends and demands for further research, based on reports released by OECD. For that purpose, documents published by OECD were analyzed, confronting theoretical studies on educational data available for comparison and policies, focusing on Brazil, Spain and Mexico, which are major contributors of a broader international project on the subject. The authors did not intend to provide conclusive results, but rise alert on the limits of this kind of international assessment programs. Key words: Educational policies, educational evaluation, PISA, TALIS.

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