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Abstract
Successful school leadership is highly contextually dependent. However, few studies focused on the comparisons of school leadership across different countries. Even among the existing studies, comparisons tend to be conducted with the assumption that the underlying factorial structure of the construct is the same. In this study, school principal’s decision-making power in 12 decision-making areas from the PISA database are compared between China and the United States. The test of measurement invariance of the construct of principal decision-making power is conducted. Findings and implications are discussed.
Notes
1 Among those fitting indices, we inclined to regard DIFFTEST from Mplus as most important index, and chi-square and chi-square degrees of freedom as least important index, as in WLSMV estimation the degrees of freedom were estimated values (Schroeders and Wilhelm, Citation2011). Besides, Cheung and Rensvold (Citation1999) concluded that invariance hypothesis should not be rejected when changes in CFI was smaller than –.01. They did not report critical criteria for TLI and RMSEA (as cited in Vandenberg and Lance Citation2000).