Melissa Tuytens

TL;DR: This paper investigated the interplay between job autonomy and characteristics of professional learning communities (PLCs) and personal resources (i.e., teacher self-efficacy) as hypothesized determinants of professionalization in differentiated instruction.

TL;DR: The authors examined the relation between principals' leadership and teachers' organizational commitment, mediated by distributed leadership, and found that the effect of principal's leadership on teacher's organizational commitment is mediated by the leadership of assistant principals and teacher leaders, cooperation within the leadership team, and participative decision making of teachers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined which components of an evaluation system are related to the effects of the evaluation system on professional development from a teachers' perspective, such as leadership characteristics, the purpose of evaluation and features of evaluation system.

TL;DR: This paper explored the importance of transformational and instructional leadership for the feedback utility and teachers' professional learning, and showed that leadership directly influences the teacher evaluation and indirectly influences teacher professional learning.

TL;DR: In this paper, an extended framework to guide the evaluation of teachers' professional development initiatives (PDI) is provided, and an overview of measurement instruments that are currently in use is provided.