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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"faculty trust"”.
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The relationship between school climate and faculty trust: An exploration across elementary schools in Shanghai
… elementary school climate and the level of faculty trust as well as to investigate whether the Shanghai elementary school climate can predict the development of faculty trust. Thirty elementary schools of 726 teachers in Jiading District of Shanghai have participated in this study. Each …
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First Among Equals: A Study of Faculty Trust Levels and Influencing Factors Related to New Deans In Transition Periods
… study was to enhance the understanding of the trust relationship between deans and their faculty members during the dean's succession. Prompted by literature that argued for the need to better understand the important leadership aspect of trust among faculty members and their deans, it surveyed …
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The Impact Of Academic Optimism On Student Achievement In Five Middle Schools
… Forms, data were collected electronically at faculty meetings with submission of the completed survey indicating participants' willingness. Percentages of students scoring at the four levels of the MEAP were obtained from www.mischooldata.org. School composite scores for the five levels of the …
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Organizational Climate, Teacher Beliefs, and Professional Development: An Investigation of the Relationships
… climate constructs of collective efficacy, faculty trust, academic emphasis, enabling bureaucracy, and mindfulness as antecedents for implemented professional development. Researchers previously combined collective efficacy, faculty trust, and academic emphasis into academic optimism. Using …
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Relationship Between Trust and Perceived Value of Faculty Unionization Among Full-Time Faculty in Selected Michigan Community Colleges
… the relationship between the union and nonunion faculty and trust. Studies have shown that the union environment inherently produces a distrustful atmosphere and, with a union, employees are actually more dissatisfied than their nonunion counterparts. On the other hand, this has created a cycle …
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Change, Principal Trust and Enabling School Structures: An Analysis of Relationships in Southern Alberta Schools
… into a professional learning community, (b) faculty trust in the principal, and (c) enabling school structures. Data collected through questionnaires was obtained from teachers of 45 schools in southern Alberta. The questionnaire contained a demographic data form and three previously …
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Change, Principal Trust and Enabling School Structures: An Analysis of Relationships in Southern Alberta Schools
… into a professional learning community, (b) faculty trust in the principal, and (c) enabling school structures. Data collected through questionnaires was obtained from teachers of 45 schools in southern Alberta. The questionnaire contained a demographic data form and three previously …
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Examining the Relationship Between Academic Optimism and Successful School Leadership in Title I Public Schools in Rural South Alabama
… academic emphasis, collective efficacy and faculty trust. The research uses an ex-post facto correlational design with quantitative methods to gather survey responses from teachers at seven public schools. The School Academic Optimism Scale (SAOS) along with the Successful School Leadership …
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The relationship of enabling school structure, academic optimism, school disciplinary climate and pupil control ideology with school discipline rates
… variable comprised of collective efficacy, faculty trust in clients, and academic emphasis along with previous research demonstrating that enabling school structure was highly correlated with and predictive of school academic optimism. Other findings demonstrated a negative correlation …
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Communication Strategies of Principals in High-Performing Title I Elementary Schools in Virginia
… with principal and teachers; the role of faculty trust; and common opportunities in their own leadership preparation. Certain principal communication behaviors were self-reported as critical to motivating teachers toward earning high-performing status. These included frequent face-to-face …
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Academic optimism and organizational climate: an elementary school effectiveness test of two measures
… academic emphasis, collective efficacy, and faculty trust (Hoy, Tarter, & Hoy, 2006). The Organizational Climate Index (OCI) is a short organizational climate descriptive measure for schools. The index is made up of four dimensions: principal leadership, teacher professionalism, achievement …
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Academic optimism in middle schools: a study of factors that appear to contribute to its development
… emphasis, collective teacher efficacy, and faculty trust in students and teachers actually work in concert and form a newly-identified construct – academic optimism – that has been shown to have a positive relationship with student achievement. The purpose of this study was to determine …
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Academic Optimism of Schools and Student Achievement
… (including collective teacher efficacy-CTE, faculty trust in parents and students-FT, and academic emphasis-AE), when controlling for SES, is a strong force in predicting academic achievement. This study attempted to support previous research findings and to provide educational administrators …
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Teacher-School Board Member Trust Relationships and Their Perceived Influence on School Effectiveness
… with schools whose culture fosters positive trust relationships being more effective than their lower trust counterparts. This collective instrumental case study expands upon extant research by examining the perceived influence of teacher-school board member trust relationships on school …
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First-Year College Students and Faculty: A Comparison of Expectations for Success
… determines how these expectations align with faculty expectations of student success. Eight first-year college students and eight college instructors were interviewed about their expectations at a small, private college. Criteria for first-year students include residing on campus and …
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Trusting the Principal: A Phenomenological Study of Faculty Perceptions of Trustworthy Traits and Leadership Behaviors
… primary and secondary teachers perceive as trustworthy in a principal and how trust in the principal contributes to teachers’ job satisfaction. Fifteen primary and secondary teachers participated in semi-structured interviews, and transcripts were coded in a multi-cycle approach to identify …
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Examining the interaction of academic optimism, enabling school structures, middle level practices, and academic achievement
<p>This study focused on young adolescent development, middle grades education, and the underlying supporting structures that assist students in achieving academically. Results were examined through the lens of Bandura’s social cognitive theory, and a big picture view of the interplay of beliefs, …