TITLE:
School Leadership. Models and Tools: A Review
AUTHORS:
Vasileios Gougas, Lucia Malinova
KEYWORDS:
School Leaders, Leadership Measuring Tools, Leadership Models, Questionnaire
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.9 No.1,
January
18,
2021
ABSTRACT: Many
researchers have dealt with school leadership because of the rapid development
of educational change. The leadership’s influence in shaping the reforms and
improving the quality of education, as well as in the job satisfaction of the
teachers and the successful operation of the school unit is catalytic and at
the same time regulatory. For this reason, a number of tools for measuring
school leadership have been implemented. Some of the tools have their roots in
the management of companies and organizations while others have been
implemented exclusively for the management of school units. In this review, a
reference is made to the leadership models that one can encounter in a school
unit but also to the tools that can be used to measure leadership depending on
the model encountered. The purpose of this study is to contribute to the
literature with the presence of tools used to measure the behavior of different
leadership styles. There is a brief presentation of each tool, the dimensions
it captures, the leadership style it measures as well as its degree of reliability. The review showed that tools such as
MLQ, LPI, PIMRS, CLIO, GLOBE and DLI can be used with great ease.