Alex J. Bowers

Best Publications

• A Century of Grading Research: Meaning and Value in the Most Common Educational Measure

  Susan M. Brookhart;Thomas R. Guskey;Alex J. Bowers;James H. McMillan

  504
  Citations

• Do We Know Who Will Drop Out?: A Review of the Predictors of Dropping out of High School: Precision, Sensitivity, and Specificity

  Alex J. Bowers;Ryan Sprott;Sherry A. Taff

  410
  Citations

• What Are the Different Types of Principals across the United States? A Latent Class Analysis of Principal Perception of Leadership.

  Angela Urick;Alex J. Bowers

  323
  Citations

• Integrated Leadership: How Principals and Teachers Share Transformational and Instructional Influence.

  Susan M. Printy;Helen M. Marks;Alex J. Bowers

  320
  Citations

• Grades and Graduation: A Longitudinal Risk Perspective to Identify Student Dropouts

  Alex J. Bowers

  280
  Citations

• What's in a grade? The multidimensional nature of what teacher-assigned grades assess in high school

  Alex J. Bowers

  195
  Citations

• Examining the Multiple Trajectories Associated with Dropping Out of High School: A Growth Mixture Model Analysis

  Alex J. Bowers;Ryan Sprott

  194
  Citations

• Toward an Evolving Conceptualization of Instructional Leadership as Leadership for Learning: Meta-narrative Review of 109 Quantitative Studies across 25 Years.

  Jared Boyce;Alex J. Bowers

  189
  Citations

• Exploring What Leads High School Students to Enroll in Hispanic-Serving Institutions A Multilevel Analysis

  Anne Marie Núñez;Alex J. Bowers

  168
  Citations

• Predicting College Enrollment from Student Interaction with an Intelligent Tutoring System in Middle School.

  Maria Ofelia Clarissa Z. San Pedro;Ryan Shaun Baker;Alex J. Bowers;Neil T. Heffernan

  156
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• Why Tenth Graders Fail to Finish High School: A Dropout Typology Latent Class Analysis

  Alex J. Bowers;Ryan Sprott

  136
  Citations

• Analyzing the Longitudinal K-12 Grading Histories of Entire Cohorts of Students: Grades, Data Driven Decision Making, Dropping out and Hierarchical Cluster Analysis.

  Alex J. Bowers

  118
  Citations

• Reconsidering grades as data for decision making: more than just academic knowledge

  Alex J. Bowers

  107
  Citations

• Pathways to the Principalship: An Event History Analysis of the Careers of Teachers With Principal Certification

  Bradley W. Davis;Mark A. Gooden;Alex J. Bowers

  96
  Citations

• Authentic leadership and teachers’ voice behaviour: The mediating role of psychological empowerment and moderating role of interpersonal trust:

  Sen Zhang;Alex J Bowers;Yaqing Mao

  95
  Citations

• Does High School Facility Quality Affect Student Achievement?: A Two-Level Hierarchical Linear Model

  Alex J. Bowers;Angela Urick

  93
  Citations

• Automated Text Data Mining Analysis of Five Decades of Educational Leadership Research Literature: Probabilistic Topic Modeling of EAQ Articles From 1965 to 2014

  Yinying Wang;Alex J. Bowers;David J. Fikis

  91
  Citations

• The Impact of Principal Perception on Student Academic Climate and Achievement in High School: How Does it Measure Up?:

  Angela Urick;Alex J. Bowers

  88
  Citations

• What Influences Principals' Perceptions of Academic Climate? A Nationally Representative Study of the Direct Effects of Perception on Climate

  Angela Urick;Alex J. Bowers

  82
  Citations

• The Role of Accountability Policies and Alternative Certification on Principals' Perceptions of Leadership Preparation

  Matthew Militello;Rebecca Gajda;Alex J. Bowers

  82
  Citations