Author : Ann Hinson Nivens
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (78 download)
Book Synopsis Teacher Assessment of Invitational Leadership Behaviors in High Poverty Elementary Schools in North Carolina by : Ann Hinson Nivens
Download or read book Teacher Assessment of Invitational Leadership Behaviors in High Poverty Elementary Schools in North Carolina written by Ann Hinson Nivens and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examined the relationship of principals' invitational leadership behaviors to teacher job satisfaction and teacher perception of principal effectiveness in 14 high-poverty public elementary schools in North Carolina. The study also compared the Invitational Quotient of principals in high-achieving and low-achieving schools. Strong positive correlations were found between principals' professionally inviting leadership behaviors and teacher job satisfaction (.77, p=.0001) and between principals' personally inviting behaviors and teacher job satisfaction (.76, p=.0001). There was also a strong positive correlation between principals' Invitational Quotient and teacher perception of principal effectiveness (.93, p=.0001). Comparison of the mean Invitational Quotients of principals in high-achieving schools and low-achieving schools found that there was a statistically significant difference in these means, with principals from high-achieving schools having higher Invitational Quotients. This study supports the relevance of key tenets of Invitational Leadership to teacher job satisfaction and teacher perception of principal effectiveness. [modified author abstract].