School Improvement
School Leadership History
Glossary Terms
Seminal Authors
Dissertation
100

The most important factor in a child's learning in schools

Who are teachers?

100

The 10th Amendment

Where does power reside with respect to Education?

100

Comparing the means of two groups

What is a t-test?

100

Michael Fullan

Who is the Godfather of Change Theory?

100

The first three chapters

What is a proposal?

200

A safe and secure environment

What is one of the correlates of Effective Schools?

200

The Father of Public Schools

Who is Horace Mann?

200

An ideology based on competition and market forces

What is neoliberalism?

200

Joseph Murphy

Who is the architect of national leadership standards?

200

Background, Purpose, Rationale

What are subheadings in Chapter 1?

300

Standardized Test Scores

What is the typical dependent variable in a quantitative research study?

300

The first editor of the Journal of Research

Who is Burdette Buckingham?

300

Predicting Outcomes with Certainty

What is causality?

300

Phillip Hallinger

Who is the Godfather of Instructional Leadership?

300

Hypothesizing no relationship between the variables

What is a null hypothesis?

400

A process that takes 3 to 5 years

What is changing cultures in schools?

400

First women superintendent in Chicago

Who is Ella Flagg Young?

400

Explaining and confirming meanings

What is validity?

400

Catherine Marshall

Who is the Godmother of Leadership for Social Justice?

400

Connecting concepts to one another.

What is a conceptual or theoretical framework?

500

Plaintiffs in 1st and 14th amendments 

Who are Tinker and Brown?

500

The sorting of soldiers and then students

What is IQ testing?

500

Grouping and convergence of keywords

What is a code or a theme in qualitative research?

500

Gerardo Lopez

Who is the editor of EAQ?

500

pvalue equal to or less than .05

What is the criteria for being 95% confident?