Developing Instructional Leaders: Using Mixed Methods to Explore the Black Box of Planned Change in Principals

Using a variety of innovative data collection strategies such as latent class analyses of daily log data, qualitative typology development, and case studies of change, the study provides a rich portrait of the learning and change process.

For a copy of this article by Carol A. Barnes, Eric Camburn, Beth R. Sanders, and James Sebastian, please visit Educational Administrator Quarterly (2010, 46, 241–279).

The research for this study was conducted under the auspices of CPRE and supported through a grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences.