Assessing Instructional Leadership with the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale
This volume provides a succinct up-to-date summary of global research on principal instructional leadership as it has evolved over the past 50 years. The book’s particular focus is on the development and use of the Principal Instructional Management Ratin
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ssessing Instructional Leadership with the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale With Chia-Wen Chen and Dongyu Li
Assessing Instructional Leadership with the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale
Philip Hallinger · Wen-Chung Wang
Assessing Instructional Leadership with the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale With Chia-Wen Chen and Dongyu Li
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Philip Hallinger Chulalongkorn University Bangkok Thailand
Wen-Chung Wang Hong Kong Institute of Education Tai Po—New Territories Hong Kong SAR
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Acknowledgments
As described in Chap. 1, this book summarizes a line of inquiry that spans not only my own career but that of my mentors and key collaborators. I wish to begin by acknowledging some of the key influences on the research contained in this volume. One of the earliest scholars to highlight the potential importance and complexity of an instructional leadership perspective was Prof. Edwin M. Bridges, one of my dissertation mentors. His 1967 article, ‘Instructional leadership: A concept re-examined’ published in the Journal of Educational Administration, was by no means the first mention of instructional leadership in the educational leadership literature. However, it was one of the first efforts to critically examine and identify the challenges that arise when school leaders adopt this perspective on school leadership. Professor Bridges (1982) also articulated the need for sound research tools in order to conduct productive empirical inquiry on this construct. Indeed, this was highlighted in his 1982 review of research on educa
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