TY - JOUR
T1 - Testing the predictive power of an instrument titled “Orientation to School Renewal”
AU - Shen, Jianping
AU - Ma, Xin
AU - Mansberger, Nancy
AU - Gao, Xingyuan
AU - Palmer, Louann Bierlein
AU - Burt, Walter
AU - Leneway, Robert
AU - McCrumb, Dennis
AU - Poppink, Sue
AU - Reeves, Patricia
AU - Whitten, Elizabeth
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - Policy makers, school practitioners, and scholars around the world have been searching for better school improvement models. The purpose of this study was to understand how an instrument we developed, Orientation to School Renewal, can be used to predict school-level academic achievement. We used the instrument to predict the academic performance of 83 schools as measured by the Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress (M-STEP) and the Scholastic Achievement Test (SAT) for mathematics and language. We found our instrument was more sensitive to M-STEP. We found that school renewal efforts were able to predict school academic performance with M-STEP in both mathematics and language. The three leading dimensions for predicting achievement on M-STEP were (a) focus on students and their achievement, (b) internal responsibility, and (c) continuous improvement. The renewal model provides a new perspective on school improvement, and future studies in other countries and international settings are recommended.
AB - Policy makers, school practitioners, and scholars around the world have been searching for better school improvement models. The purpose of this study was to understand how an instrument we developed, Orientation to School Renewal, can be used to predict school-level academic achievement. We used the instrument to predict the academic performance of 83 schools as measured by the Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress (M-STEP) and the Scholastic Achievement Test (SAT) for mathematics and language. We found our instrument was more sensitive to M-STEP. We found that school renewal efforts were able to predict school academic performance with M-STEP in both mathematics and language. The three leading dimensions for predicting achievement on M-STEP were (a) focus on students and their achievement, (b) internal responsibility, and (c) continuous improvement. The renewal model provides a new perspective on school improvement, and future studies in other countries and international settings are recommended.
KW - School reform
KW - instrument development
KW - school renewal
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85082971713
U2 - 10.1080/09243453.2020.1749087
DO - 10.1080/09243453.2020.1749087
M3 - 文章
AN - SCOPUS:85082971713
SN - 0924-3453
VL - 31
SP - 505
EP - 528
JO - School Effectiveness and School Improvement
JF - School Effectiveness and School Improvement
IS - 4
ER -