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Assessing Leader Effectiveness
Leadership evaluation holds great promise in providing educators with the information they need to both improve leadership practices and provide information for accountability purposes. Researchers at Vanderbilt University identify the core components of a new leader assessment in development as: setting high standards for student learning; overseeing a rigorous curriculum and quality instruction; instituting a culture of learning and professional behavior; maintaining connections to the community; and holding leadership and teachers accountable for academic performance. Resources in this category include reliable and evidence-based strategies for assessing performance and improving it over time.
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Assessing Learning-Centered Leadership: Connections to Research, Professional Standards, and Current Practices
The development of effective school leadership has been seriously hampered by the lack of technically sound tools to assess and monitor leaders’ performance. With support from The Wallace Foundation, a team from Vanderbilt has been developing such an assessment system, and this paper presents the conceptual framework for their learning-centered tool. Field testing is set for completion in 2008 and it will be widely available thereafter. Meanwhile, this paper previews the basics of this much-needed new assessment system. |
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Learning-Centered Leadership: A Conceptual Foundation
The conceptual framework emerges from Vanderbilt University’s three-year project to develop a set of instruments to assess the effectiveness of educational leadership (both individual and team). This report provides the empirical foundation for an approach to leadership assessment. The review of literature is organized around eight dimensions of learning-centered leadership: vision for learning, instructional program, curriculum program, assessment program, communities of learning, resource acquisition use, organizational culture and social advocacy. |
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A Framework for the Assessment of Learning-Centered Leadership
This framework emerges from Vanderbilt University’s three-year project to develop a set of instruments to assess the effectiveness of educational leadership (both individual and team). The report positions Vanderbilt’s work in the larger context of leadership assessment and makes clear its focus on leadership behaviors, indicators of student success and the school context that bears on leadership evaluation (e.g., length of time of current leadership in the school). |
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Purposes, Uses and Practices of Leadership Assessment in Education
This report, one of six state-of-the-field reports, explores the connection between learning-focused leadership and leadership assessment as it contributes to coherent leadership assessment systems. The report outlines the function and implication of leadership assessment in national, state and local contexts. |
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