Addressing Challenges in Evaluating School Principal Improvement Efforts

by Susan Burkhauser, Ashley Pierson, Susan M. Gates

Given the focus on accountability in education, stakeholders are interested in evaluating whether efforts aimed at improving school leadership show results; the key criteria are student outcomes. This report describes challenges that states, districts, and other entities can expect to encounter as they evaluate efforts targeting school leadership as a way to improve student outcomes and offers suggestions for dealing with those challenges.

48 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 14, 2014