A factor-based taxonomy of seventeen indicators of elementary school organizational development¶

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Description¶

The appendix organizes school organizational development into factors—School Leadership, Parent-Community Ties, Professional Capacity, Learning Climate, Instructional Guidance, and Relational Trust—each measured by Rasch scales. The authors state that factor analyses "yielded thirteen composite indicators" and that they "added four 'stand-alone' measures, arriving at a final set of seventeen overall indicators of organizational development in each elementary school." Table 1 maps each factor to its elements, Rasch measures, and the number of schools surveyed in 1991, 1992, 1994, and 1997.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Survey measures must be derived through Rasch rating-scale analysis of teacher, student, and principal survey items

Constraints¶

• Fourteen indicators are detailed in Chapter 3 and the three remaining trust indicators in Chapter 6 of the parent volume, not in this appendix

Target Learners¶

• elementary school staff and administrators in Chicago Public Schools

Target Learning Objectives¶

• organizational development of elementary schools for instructional improvement

Claims¶

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Examples¶

• Teacher instructional guidance measures of basic-skills and application-oriented emphasis in language arts and math
• Relational Trust measures built from teacher-parent, teacher-principal, and teacher-teacher trust scales across 1991, 1994, and 1997
• Student-reported learning climate measures covering academic press, personalism, peer support, classroom behavior, engagement, and safety

Key Sources¶

• Anthony S. Bryk, Penny Bender Sebring, Elaine Allensworth, Stuart Luppescu, John Q. Easton. (2009). Survey Measures, Factors, Composite Variables, and Items Used in Organizing Schools for Improvement: Lessons from Chicago. University of Chicago Press. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/organizing-schools-improvement-lessons-chicago