Evaluation of pedagogical leadership through the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education (VAL-ED). Adaptation to the context of Higher Education in Spain
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Palomino Fernández, José Manuel; Cáceres Reche, María Del Pilar; Aznar Díaz, Inmaculada; Lara Lara, FernandoEditorial
Taylor & Francis
Materia
Academic leadership Higher Education Quality assurance Educational research Assessment
Date
2023-08-17Referencia bibliográfica
José Manuel Palomino Fernández, María del Pilar Cáceres Reche, Inmaculada Aznar Díaz & Fernando Lara Lara (2023) Evaluation of pedagogical leadership through the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education (VAL-ED). Adaptation to the context of Higher Education in Spain, Cogent Social Sciences, 9:2, 2243720, [DOI: 10.1080/23311886.2023.2243720]
Patrocinador
Project 'eLeadership in Training Centres and implementation of a management model for quality and efficiency improvement'. Reference contract/agreement nº: 4683Résumé
Pedagogical leadership has been widely recognized as an essential factor
in improving educational quality. Different studies point to it as the second most
influential element in student performance and outcomes after teaching practice.
Although the evaluation of principal leadership is an important tool that could help
to find ways to improve the effectiveness of principal leadership, the design of such
evaluation tools has always been a challenge. On the other hand, when we refer to
pedagogical leadership in the context of Higher Education, we find that the limited
number of studies suggests that research is still insufficient. Therefore there is
a need to continue to deepen this field of research, which will allow us to further
explore pedagogical leadership in Higher Education, providing results that will have
an impact on the effectiveness of organizational development and its improvement
in all dimensions of the institution, as well as on the performance and results of the
students. This study aims to translate the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in
Education (VAL-ED) into Spanish and adapt it to the context of Higher Education so
that we can have a reliable and effective evaluation instrument that not only allows
us to continue to study pedagogical leadership in this educational stage, but also to be able to find areas for improvement, to improve both the results of the students
and the Higher Education educational institutions themselves.