Investigating the role of the collective efficacy of teachers in fiscal efficiency and student achievement
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu10585557162021-08-03T05:48:08Z Investigating the role of the collective efficacy of teachers in fiscal efficiency and student achievement Cybulski, Timothy G. collective efficacy school efficiency student achievement <p>Using variables from two specific strands within the body of educational research, that is, economic theory and organizational theory, a series of hypotheses and a set of theoretical models of student achievement were developed and tested. Student Instructional Ratio (SIR) and Student Services Ratio (SSR), measures of fiscal efficiency, were the variables selected from the economic literature base. Collective efficacy of teachers, teachers’ perceptions that the efforts of the faculty as a whole will have a positive influence on students, represented the organizational variable. In addition to these variables, socioeconomic status (SES) and prior student achievement were included in the study as control variables.</p> <p>The theoretical models advanced within the study predicted that SIR as well as SSR had an indirect effect on student achievement through the collective efficacy of teachers. To test these models, data were collected from 146 elementary schools within the state of Ohio. Correlational analysis and structural equation modeling techniques were employed to analyze the data and determine the validity of the models.</p> <p>The results of this investigation failed to support the hypotheses that SIR or SSR had an indirect effect on student achievement through the collective efficacy of teachers. However, collective efficacy of teachers was found to have a positive, direct effect on student achievement controlling for both SES and prior student achievement. Not surprisingly, evidence from the data analyses showed SES to be directly related to student achievement and indirectly related to student achievement through the collective efficacy of teachers. The importance of collective efficacy in facilitating student achievement was demonstrated by the research.</p> <p>The absence of finding a significant relationship between fiscal efficiency and student achievement through the key process variable of the collective efficacy of teachers precipitated ex post facto analyses on the sample set. These exploratory analyses demonstrated that money allocated directly to the instructional process at the school did have a significant, indirect effect on student achievement through the collective efficacy of teachers. Taken together, these results prompted the presentation of numerous implications for theory, practice, and future research.</p> 2003-10-14 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1058555716 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1058555716 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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