5 Criteria for good research questions in empirical educational leadership research
What are good research questions for empirical research in educational leadership? In this video, I talk about five criteria that you can use to develop and evaluate good research questions. These five criteria are for the field of educational leadership, and leadership in general. 0:00 Five Criteria for good research questions in empirical research in educational leadership 0:52 Criterion 1: Don’t ask questions that can be answered by reviewing literature. 4:41 Criterion 2: Stay away from program evaluation. Focus on the leadership process. 8:38 Criterion 3: Place leadership in a context. Don’t conceptualize it as a static, isolated entity. 12:47 Criterion 4: Don’t be trapped in the waiting-for-superman mindset. Pay attention to the interaction between leaders and their followers. 16:50 Criterion 5: Advance theory development of educational leadership. Other resources: Pro-innovation bias: • Pro-innovation bias - Leader decisions fro... Superiority illusion: • Superiority illusion - Leader decisions fr... Theoretical groundings of educational leadership: https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/n... These five criteria are the ones I use personally, so not everyone agrees with me. To share your thoughts about research questions, please leave your comments below. Subscribe to How Can Leaders Make Better Decisions here: / @leadersdecisionmakinglab #Research #Leadership #EducationalLeadership #EdLeadership #Empirical #Theory #TheoreticalFramework #ConceptualFramework Email: [email protected]

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