| Title: | Stated Briefly: The utility of teacher and student surveys in principal evaluations: An empirical investigation |
| Description: | This "Stated Briefly" report is a companion piece that summarizes the results of another report of the same name. This study examined whether measures from student and teacher surveys that reflect principals' practice are related to schoolwide academic performance. The study was conducted using data from 2011–12 on 39 elementary and secondary schools within a midsize urban school district in the REL Midwest Region. The research team used the results of the district's Tripod student and teacher surveys to construct six school-level measures of school conditions that prior research has shown to associate with effective school leadership. The study finds that adding the full set of six survey measures as a group results in statistically significant increases in variation explained in mathematics and composite value-added outcomes, but not in reading. A stepwise regression procedure identified two measures—instructional leadership and classroom instructional environment—as an optimal subset of the six measures. This evidence indicates that student and teacher survey measures can have utility for principal performance evaluation. |
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| Cover Date: | April 2016 |
| Web Release: | April 26, 2016 |
| Print Release: | April 26, 2016 |
| Publication #: | REL 2016132 General Ordering Information |
| Center/Program: | REL |
| Associated Centers: | NCEE |
| Authors: | Keke Liu, Jeff Springer, and David Stuit: Basis Policy Research; Jim Lindsay and Yinmei Wan: American Institutes for Research. In collaboration with the Midwest Urban Research Alliance |
| Type of Product: | Stated Briefly |
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For questions about the content of this Stated Briefly, please contact: Amy Johnson. |