Evidence for this sub-study was provided by responses to 58 items on the first
round of teacher surveys and 58 items from the first round of principal surveys.
Not exact matches
The evidence — gathered through instructional
rounds, work samples,
teacher evaluation, program documents and a
teacher survey — suggested
teacher understandings
of PBL was not consistent across the school and not all felt confident planning and implementing the approach in its entirety.
Our quantitative evidence consisted
of responses collected from 3,969
teachers and 107 principals during the first
round of surveys (for a response rate
of approximately 70 %).
We found a significant main effect for district size on all eight variables from
Round One and all three from
Round Two
of the
teacher surveys (see Table 1.6.2).
From
Round Two
of the principal
survey, we constructed six variables that parallel the
teacher survey variables or are
of conceptual interest on their own.
For the project as a whole, we collected two
rounds of survey data from principals and
teachers and three
rounds of site - visit data from schools and districts, including classroom observations and interviews with
teachers and building and district administrators.
After revisions and more discussions with
teachers and principals, we were ready with a
Round One
teacher survey of 117 items and a principal
survey of 149 items.
The
teacher survey administered to all participating schools during the first
round of data collection included a set
of items designed to measure the relative influence
of those in multiple roles on school decision making (see Section 1.1).
We obtained data for this component
of our study from the second
round of principal and
teacher surveys and from evidence collected in interviews during all three
rounds of our site visits to 18 districts.
We informed them that in our
survey data collection we would be inviting principals, assistant principals, and
teachers to respond to a written
survey about leadership policy and practices that bear on teaching and learning; that we would conduct the principal and
teacher surveys in four schools per district representing elementary and secondary schools; and that we would be conducting a second
round of surveys in the final year
of the study (2008).
We obtained data for this section from responses to the first
round of principal and
teacher surveys and from state - mandated measures
of students «achievement in mathematics.
We found a significant main effect for school size on all eight variables from
Round One and all three from
Round Two
of the
teacher surveys.
To address these questions, we examined evidence provided by the first and second
rounds of principal and
teacher surveys, each
of which contained measures
of leadership behaviors shown elsewhere in this report to be related to student achievement.
Looking at
teacher ratings
of school climate, school openness to parents, and district support (from
Round Two
of the
teacher survey), we find once again that as poverty and diversity increase,
teachers «ratings
of climate, openness to parents, and district support decrease (see Table 1.6.1 below, and Appendix C1.6.1).141
Through multiple
rounds in an online
survey format, panelists reflected on statements about
teacher leader selection, preparation, or practice; reflected on conditions elicited from their responses to these statements; and reflected on a summary
of these conditions in the form
of advice to the field.