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School leadership as a lever of learning (PhD project) (completed)

The project focuses on studying variations of school leadership practices across system- and school-level characteristics. Further, the project aims to model how different aspects of school leadership relate to both teacher and student outcomes using Large-scale assessment data.

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School leadership as a lever of learning is a part of the larger OCCAM project. Illustration: Colourbox.

About the project

The project uses data from the International large-scale assessments studies focusing on the TALIS (Teaching and learning international survey) study to model how school leadership varies across system- and school-level characteristics. In addition, the project investigates the measurement of school leadership from different perspectives within and across schools.

Background

School leadership as a lever of learning project is a part of the larger OCCAM project. The acronym OCCAM stands for “Outcomes and Causal Inference in International Comparative Assessments” in educational research. The OCCAM is a European Training Network (ETN), which is a sub-call in the Marie Skodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (MSCA ITN) of the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 framework. It is a graduate school for 15 early-stage researchers investigating trends and differences in educational achievement, the determinants of educational outcomes, and changes in educational outcomes from an international perspective.

Financing

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 765400

Published Apr. 28, 2021 9:04 AM - Last modified Sep. 20, 2023 12:35 PM

Contact

Jelena Veletic