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Local Community (帢 = .52), and intercept and fixed slope two-
Social Tension in Local Community
(帢 = .91). level regression models. This
Both teacher and principal modeling method was
perceptions were tested. The
purpose was to explore issues recommended to meet the needs
from multiple sources. While
overlapping and complementing of this study (Tabachnick & Fidell,
each other, together the
perceptions provide a holistic 2007).
picture of school leadership and
community context for student For both teachers and principals,
civic learning. The reliability the scales were first used as a set
coefficients indicate satisfactory of predictors. For example,
internal consistency of the measuring teachers??perceptions
measures. The two exceptions are of school governance, Teacher
that for Parents' Participation at Participation in School Governance
School in the School Life and and Student Influence at School
Resource in Local Community. were first entered as the
classroom-level predictors. To
Analytical Method check for collinearity, the
individual variables were used as
The software programme MPlus single predictors, one at a time,
7.1 was used to construct random still at the classroom-level. The
results are reported in Tables 2
and 3.
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