Practical guides to the research designs and analyses most often used in educational administration theses and articles, from scale adaptation and multilevel modelling to qualitative case studies.
How to choose between a case study and a phenomenological design, how to sample, analyse and establish trustworthiness, and why so many interview-based theses are labelled “phenomenology” when they are something else.
A practical guide to meta-analysis for educational leadership researchers: PRISMA 2020, searching Turkish and international sources, effect sizes, random-effects models, heterogeneity, moderators, publication bias, dependent effects, software and reporting.
A practical guide to testing indirect effects and interactions in survey research on school leadership, covering bootstrapped indirect effects, moderated mediation, SEM, probing interactions, and the limits of cross-sectional data.
A practical guide to multilevel modelling for theses that survey teachers and principals: why nesting matters, ICC and the design effect, aggregating perceptions to school level, centring, random slopes, level-2 sample size, software and what to report.
A practical guide to adapting an existing questionnaire for a new language or culture: permission, translation, content validity, factor analysis, reliability beyond alpha, fit indices and measurement invariance, with notes on what to report.