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Type of Document

Dissertation

Author

Huff, Jason Taylor

Author's Email Address

jason.huff@vanderbilt.edu

URN

etd-03232009-131605

Title

Knowing "How" Is More Than Knowing "That": A Study of Educational Leadership Expertise

Degree

PhD

Department

Leadership and Policy Studies

Advisory Committee

Advisor Name	Title
Ellen Goldring	Committee Chair
David Cordray	Committee Member
James Spillane	Committee Member
Joseph Murphy	Committee Member

Keywords

mixed methods
validation
expertise
educational leadership
instructional leadership

Date of Defense

2009-02-23

Availability

unrestricted

Abstract

While there is ample criticism of principal certification and professional
development programs to equip individuals with the expertise they need, we as
a field possess few methodologies to measure leadership expertise. There is thus
little evidence to inform us of the effectiveness of these programs to train
participants. This study explored the content, construct, and criterion validity of
a series of open-ended scenarios to measure leadership expertise. I first review
recent efforts in the literature to define this construct before I present the findings
from three validation studies. Overall the descriptive analyses showed that the
scenarios tapped varying levels of expertise, and examinations of respondents’
scenario scores revealed complex relationships between different areas of
expertise. Finally, analyses of the scenario scores’ relationships to principal and
teacher survey measures showed mixed yet promising results for their criterion
validity and suggested multiple directions for future improvements and uses of
these measures.

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