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[https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero](https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero)  \nDistributed Leadership: Teachers’ and Principals’ Perceptions Match and the Association With Teacher Work Satisfaction and Autonomy  \nPeter D. Wiens  \nVanessa Vongkulluksn  \nUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, USA  \nHui-Ling Wendy Pan  \nTamkang University, New Taipei, Taiwan  \nSchools where principals and teachers collaborate to develop a culture of distributed leadership provide the best environments for teaching and learning. However, the alignment between principals’and teachers’perceptions of distributed leadership and association with teacher outcomes requires further investigation. Using TALIS 2018 data, this study explored how the (mis)match of principal and teacher perceptions of distributed leadership may be associated with levels of teacher work satisfaction and teacher autonomy. Hierarchical linear modeling and polynomial regression with response surface analysis were employed for data analysis. Findings indicate that principals and teachers had different views on distributed leadership, and these differences were associated with levels of teacher autonomy. When principals overestimated distributed leadership compared to teachers, teacher autonomy declined. Moreover, teachers’perceptions of distributed leadership were the strongest predictors of work satisfaction. These findings highlight the importance of understanding perceptual gaps between principals and teachers to develop leadership strategies.  \nKeywords: administration, leadership, principals, teacher education/development, hierarchical linear modeling, regression analyses, secondary data analysis, distributed leadership, teacher autonomy, work satisfaction, raters’ agreement, perceptions match  \nIntroduction  \nThe changing context of society, technology, and student demographics poses significant challenges for today’s teachers in accommodating individual student needs. Additionally, the external reform agenda increases teacher accountability for advancing student learning. In such a demanding environment, autonomy and workplace satisfaction are crucial for teachers to develop their professional careers. Effective assistance for teachers requires school leadership to be a shared endeavor, involving contributions from both administrators and teachers (Harris & DeFlaminis, 2016) . Decades of research have demonstrated that an individual, or even a small team of administrators, cannot provide the leadership capacity necessary for a school to thrive and provide the learning opportunities students deserve (Fletcher & Käufer, 2003; Lindahl, 2008; Pearce & Conger, 2003) . This understanding of leadership has given rise to a focus on teacher leadership (York-Barr & Duke, 2004; Wenner & Campbell, 2017) . Teacher leaders are those teachers who support other  \nteachers and engage in meaningful leadership within and beyond their own classrooms (Wiens, Metcalf, & Skousen, 2024) . The need for teacher leaders was born out of the research and theory around distributed leadership (DL), which is relational (Fletcher & Käufer, 2003) and can be seen as an organizational quality rather than an individual attribute (Ogawa and Bossert, 1995) . DL encompasses a collective performance of leadership that arises when teachers work together with colleagues and participate actively in  \nschool-wide processes (Harris, 2008; Spillane, 2006) .  \nThe perspective of person-environment fit implies a reciprocal influence between individuals and their environments, suggesting that “people are both producers and products of social systems”(Bandura, 1997, p. 6; Frese et al., 2007) . Aligned with this understanding, it can be assumed that when teachers perceive lead","cbCaidtqmmGDEqpx","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidtqmmGDEqpx","pdf",806525,17,"English","# Introduction\n## Conceptual background: distributed leadership and teacher leadership\n## Person-environment fit and expected links to autonomy and satisfaction\n## Prior findings and perceptual discrepancies\n## Study approach and analysis overview\n# Methods (from provided text)\n## Data source: TALIS 2018\n## Analytic strategy: hierarchical linear modeling and response surface analysis\n# Findings (from provided text)\n## Perceptions match/mismatch between principals and teachers\n## Associations with teacher autonomy and work satisfaction\n# Conclusion (from provided text)","[{\"question\":\"What data source does the study use to analyze distributed leadership?\",\"answer\":\"The study uses TALIS 2018 data to examine perceptions of distributed leadership and their links to teacher outcomes.\"},{\"question\":\"How do the authors assess the relationship between principals’ and teachers’ perceptions and teacher outcomes?\",\"answer\":\"They apply hierarchical linear modeling and polynomial regression with response surface analysis to connect perceptual (mis)match with autonomy and work satisfaction.\"},{\"question\":\"What happens to teacher autonomy when principals overestimate distributed leadership?\",\"answer\":\"When principals overestimate distributed leadership relative to teachers, teachers’ autonomy declines.\"}]","Distributed Leadership: Teachers’ and Principals’ Perceptions Match and the Association With Teacher Work Satisfaction and Autonomy | PDF",1792069430,43]