Schools small by design showed significantly higher teacher influence and all four professional capacity measures¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Among both elementary and high schools, schools designed to be small showed significantly higher levels of teacher influence and all four measures of professional capacity, compared with other schools with small populations due to declining enrollment. → Penny Bender Sebring 2004

Evidence¶

Penny Bender Sebring 2004¶

Penny Bender Sebring, Susan Sporte, Stephen Ponisciak, Elaine Allensworth. (2004). Principal and Teacher Leadership in Chicago: Early Evidence on Two Initiatives. Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/principal-and-teacher-leadership-chicago-early-evidence-two-initiatives

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Survey analysis distinguishing schools small by design from other schools with small populations due to declining enrollment. Small elementary schools have no more than 350 students; small high schools have up to 525 students. No effect sizes were printed.

"we found that schools designed to be small showed significantly higher levels of teacher in- fluence and all four measures of professional capacity."

Discussion¶

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