Exploring school improvement in Hong Kong secondary schools

Exploring school improvement in Hong Kong secondary schools

• Ko, James Y. C. Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change, Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Hallinger, Philip Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Walker, Allan D. Hong Kong Institute of Education

Peabody Journal of Education, 87(2), 216-234, 2012

Routledge

2012

• S School Environment & Facilities, Organization
  • SI School Effectiveness & Improvement
• R Educational Policy & Administration
  • RE School Management, School-Parents Relationship
• S School Environment & Facilities, Organization
  • SH School Culture, Teacher-Student Relations
• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MF Characteristics & Conditions of Educational Workers
• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QD Secondary Education

Schools Politics Policy Making Education Policy Education Personnel and Population Education Leadership Teachers Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Secondary Education

Scholars have increasingly sought to understand how the process of school improvement differs among schools operating in different school levels, conditions, and contexts. Using Rosenholtz's (1985) conception of "moving" and "stuck" schools as a framework for thinking about school improvement, this study examines the learning outcomes of 39 Hong Kong secondary schools over a 3-year period. We examine whether features of leadership and school capacity differed with respect to these learning outcomes within the sample of moving and stuck schools. This research in Hong Kong has identified several factors that appear to synergistically contribute to differences in patterns of improvement in learning across different subjects in both moving and stuck schools. These factors include resource management of principals and school capacity in terms of professional learning community; workload of teachers; alignment, coherence, and structure; and resource capacity. This study extends the research on leadership and capacity building as a means of school improvement, in the process elaborating on their impact within a non-Western society.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 0161956X

• 10.1080/0161956X.2012.664474

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/232a5f30

2014-01-18