Original scientific paper
SCHOOL LEADERSHIP AND QUALITY IN EDUCATION: SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES ACROSS THE SELECTED EU COUNTRIES
Tina Vršnik Perše
; Faculty of Education,University of Maribor, Slovenia
Ana Kozina
; The Educational Research Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Marija Javornik Krečić
; Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor,Slovenia
Milena Ivanuš Grmek
; Faculty of Education, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Abstract
The paper focuses on different methods of school leadership and management styles. Effective school leadership is identified as crucial to students’ outcomes, second only to the quality of the teacher (Augustine et al., 2009 in OECD, 2012). In the paper the results of secondary empirical research based on TALIS data (2008) are presented. The predictive value of selected variables (such as school size, principals’ gender etc.) for different types of principals'
leadership and management styles were evaluated with multiple regression analyses. The results of the analysis are placed in the international context since the paper focuses on comparison of data from principals questionnaires for Austria, Hungary, Slovak Republic and Slovenia. The analyses indicate that the predictors for different leadership and management styles are mostly country specific and only years of experience have significant influence in most indexes. The answer to what are the best school management and leadership styles isn’t straightforward. Based on our research it is not possible to introduce or improve a specific indicator in order to achieve such school leadership.
Keywords
international comparative analysis; school leadership; school management; school principal
Hrčak ID:
162134
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Publication date:
28.12.2015.
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