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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"Leadership research"”.
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A Review of Transformational Leadership Research: A Meta-analytic Approach
This research is a meta-analytic review of the effects of transformational school leadership (TSL)-- a systematic, comprehensive synthesis of the quantitative research on transformational school leadership. The review method used in this research is standard meta-analysis supplemented by narrative …
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Judged by the Bottom-line But Expected to Lead Ethically: A Leader's Catch 22
The goal of the presented research is to explain the importance of integrating the literatures on leader bottom-line mentality (BLM) and behavioral ethics and to demonstrate that leader BLM can adversely impact followers' perceptions of ethical leadership. By doing so, several contributions can be …
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Personality and leader emergence in groups
Trait-based approaches to leadership have been around for a long time. Starting out as one of the original theories of leadership, research in the area of trait- based perspectives began to slow and give way to other, different domains of predicting leadership in the 1950s. Only recently has there …
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Decision-making in task-oriented and interaction-oriented groups
Within an organisation, leadership involves accomplishing goals by working with and through people. This comprises the concepts of concern for the task and concern for relationships, and leadership research has been concerned with predicting the way in which these concepts interact, whether they …
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Exploring the under-representation of women at Vice Chancellor level in the UK through gender and leadership development lenses
• Background This paper profiles research into the under-representation of women at Vice Chancellor level in UK Higher Education. Less than 15% of Vice Chancellors are women, whereas women make up 51% of the general population, 50% of early career academics and 60% of higher education students. The …
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Leader consideration reconsidered: the l factor in leader behavior
In the current dissertation, I propose that leadership research has progressed by repeatedly reinventing the concept of leader consideration. First, I provide a historical review of the origins of leader consideration. Then, I conduct empirical demonstrations (using both meta-analytic and primary …
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Hope for today and tomorrow: identity construction power, and persistence of community college women who are first in their families to attend college
… analyzed in regard to its uses and limits. The researcher found the label as an identifier becomes problematic through social discourse. These results confirm London’s (1996) finding that students themselves do not necessarily find anything unique about their situations or anything in common …
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Leadership for scholarly excellence: a qualitative examination of department chair facilitation methods to promote research productivity in pre-tenure biological sciences faculty
… department chairs can employ to enhance the research productivity of their pre-tenure faculty and examines if leadership at the department chair level matters. Using a qualitative approach to examine six highly successful life science departments and their leaders as well as focus group …
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Self-efficacy, motivation, and outcome expectation correlates of college students' intention certainty
… information considered useful for framing future research on retention from a different perspective that focuses on characteristics of individuals who stay, rather than those who leave higher education with the consideration of psychological constructs. Further, this research expanded the Tinto …
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School effectiveness research in China
… mixed model design was utilized to test the research hypotheses and answer the research questions. Both probability and purposive sampling strategies were employed in this study. The MANOVA analyses from the teacher, student, and parent questionnaires revealed a consistent result: there were …
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The relationship between perceived leader behavior and alcohol consumption among university students who are members of social fraternities
… alcohol consumption of students enrolled in a research extensive university in the southern portion of the United States who were members of a social fraternity. The two main goals of this study were: 1) to determine if a relationship existed between the level of alcohol consumption and the …
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Designing online instruction for postsecondary students with learning disabilities
… students with varying learning disabilities. The research provides a holistic picture of the students in their actual learning environment. Two college students diagnosed as learning disabled were studied with three non-disabled classmates in an online college learning environment. The purpose was …
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Going with the flow?: the medical school pipeline and advising premedical African American students on predominantly white campuses
… enrollment in medical school, and existing research on diverse student experiences have indicated a critical need for effective academic advising for premedical African American students attending predominantly white undergraduate institutions. Using mixed methods, this study investigated …
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Using partial least squares approach to predict factors that contribute to the impact of e-folios on pre-service teachers' learning
… technology skills. To analyze survey data, the researcher used the Partial Least Squares (PLS) approach to Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), which is a method for estimating the likelihood of the success of PASS-PORT given information about other factors that influence the use of PASS-PORT. …
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The impact of Louisiana's School and District Accountability System on students' performance on the state mandated criterion referenced test
This study is aimed at determining the impact of Louisiana’s School and District Accountability System on students’ performance on the state mandated criterion-referenced test (LEAP 21). The study was designed to determine the extent to which teachers in Title I schools in a large urban district in …
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Epistemological congruency in community college classrooms: effects of epistemological beliefs on students experiences
… Implications for higher education and future research recommendations are discussed.
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The perceptions of effects of a study skills course, "Dynamics of Effective Study," on the academic achievement of African American students at a dedicated academic magnet high school
… academic magnet high school. Qualitative research methods were utilized in this study. Fifteen African American students who completed the study skills course, fifteen African American students who did not take or complete the study skills course, five former study skills teachers, and …
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A study of dropout characteristics and school-level effects on dropout prevention
This sequential, three-phase study used quantitative analyses to examine the characteristics of student dropouts and the characteristics of schools successful and unsuccessful in mediating dropouts. Narrative profiles were created to describe types of students and types of dropouts. Phase I …
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Say it loud! I'm Black and I'm proud!: a study of successful Black female students educated in an urban middle school
… (Fordham & Ogbu, 1986) is a common term among researchers who study academic achievement and racial identity among minority students which signifies the tension some academically successful minority students experience as they excel in school. Black students who contend with such tension may be …
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An analysis of student collaboration and task completion through project based learning in a web-supported undergraduate course
… of the interactions that occur, and provides researchers with possible future studies that are relevant to this immerging field of education.
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