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Anatomy of Some Representative School Leaders’ Effectiveness Studies

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School Leadership Effects Revisited

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In this chapter five recent studies which have addressed indirect effect models of school leadership, are reviewed in somewhat more detail. The studies have been carried out in different countries, Australia, the United Kingdom, 17 OECD countries and the United States, respectively.

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    A meta-controller is controlling controllers.

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Scheerens, J. (2012). Anatomy of Some Representative School Leaders’ Effectiveness Studies. In: Scheerens, J. (eds) School Leadership Effects Revisited. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2768-7_3

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