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Re-Validation of the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale (PIMRS) and Meta-Analysis of Gender-Related PIMRS Studies

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Principal Investigator
Professor Wang Wen Chung
Chair Professor, The Education University of Hong Kong
 
Co-Investigators
Professor Philip Hallinger
Professor Lee Moosung
 
Funding Source
General Research Fund
 
Project Duration
2012-2013

Description

Objectives

The purpose of this research is to update the most widely used instrument in the world used for studying principal instructional leadership, the principal instructional management rating scale (PIMRS). Specific objectives of the study include: 
  1. To revalidate the PIMRS for use in future studies of instructional leadership.
  2. To assess the psychometric properties of the PIMRS for use across cultures outside of the United States.
  3. To examine the impact of principal gender on the exercise of instructional leadership in schools.
Methods Used 

This research uses a variety of advanced statistical methods to reanalyze secondary data that has been collected by users of the PIMRS instrument over the past thirty years. Use of these methods (e.g., Rasch modelling, meta-analysis) will enable us to analyze and enhance the utility of the instrument, as well as advance our understanding of what others have been learned through its application in a variety of different education contexts. 

Expected Findings 

Since this project is in its early days, we have few results to report to date. However, preliminary analyses suggest the following: 
  • It appears that the PIMRS is a highly reliable instrument, achieving high levels of accuracy in reporting assessments by principals and teachers of the principal’s instructional leadership. 
  • The instrument enables us to develop national profiles of principal instructional leadership, which is a useful means of illuminating school system capacity for change.
  • Reanalysis of data in the project has already been applied to the study of educational reform in Thailand as part of our interest in examining instructional leadership cross-culturally. This effort demonstrated the utility of the instrument for assessing system-wide leadership capacity as well as the impact of reform legislation on principal behaviour.
  • Future analyses will lend insights into why and how gender of the principal influences their instructional leadership.
  • Future analyses will also strengthen the instrument by providing standards for different instructional leadership functions and establishing the reliability and validity of the instrument in different cultural contexts.
Output

Book
  1. Hallinger, P., Wang, W. C., Chen, C. W., & Li, D. (2015, in press). Assessing Instructional Leadership with the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale. Springer.
Book Chapter
  1. Hallinger, P. (2012). A Data-Driven Approach to Assess and Develop Instructional Leadership with the PIMRS. In J. Shen (Ed.), Tools for improving the principalship. (pp. 47-69). Oxford, UK: Peter Lang.
Refereed Journals
  1. Hallinger, P., & Lee, M.S. (2014). Mapping instructional leadership in Thailand:Has education reform impacted principal practice? Educational Management, Administrati on and Leadership. 42(1), 6–29.
  2. Hallinger, P., & Lee, M.S. (2013). Exploring principal capacity to lead reform of teaching and learning quality in Thailand. International Journal of Educational Development, 33(4), 305-315.
  3. Hallinger, P., & Wang, W.C., & Chen, C.W. (2013). Assessing the measurement properties of the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale. A meta-analysis of reliability studies. Educational Administration Quarterly, 49(2), 272-309.
  4. Hallinger, P., & Murphy, J. (2012). Running on empty? Finding the time and capacity to lead learning. NASSP Bulletin, 97(1), 5 –21.
Refereed Conference Paper
  1. Hallinger, P., Wang, W. C., & Chen. C. W. (2013, May). Assessing the Measurement Properties of the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale. A meta-analysis of Reliability Studies. Paper presented at The annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, USA. 
Monographs
  1. Hallinger, P., Wang, W. C., & Chen. C. W. (2012). Assessing the Measurement Properties of the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale: A Meta- Analysis of Reliability Studies. The Joseph Lau Luen Hung Charitable Trust Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change, HKIEd, Hong Kong.
  2. Hallinger, P. & Murphy, J. (2012). Running on Empty? Finding the Time and Capacity to Lead Learning. The Joseph Lau Luen Hung Charitable Trust Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change, HKIEd, Hong Kong.