Distribuir el liderazgo para mejorar la calidad de la educación: Estudio comparativo en escuelas municipales de una ciudad del norte de Chile

El liderazgo distribuido es un constructo que ha adquirido gran relevancia en el campo de la investigacion de la mejora escolar, sin embargo, en Chile la investigacion aun es incipiente. La presente investigacion busco comparar la distribucion del liderazgo en escuelas de logro intermedio e inicial en el SIMCE. Se aplico la escala de liderazgo distribuido a 64 profesores de 4 escuelas de la ciudad de Calama (2 de logro inicial y 2 de logro intermedio). A traves de pruebas de comparacion de medias, se encontro que aquellas escuelas con logro intermedio obtuvieron puntajes significativamente superiores en las escalas de vision escolar, cultura escolar, programa instruccional, uso de artefactos, liderazgo docente y relaciones intuitivas de trabajo. Se discuten los resultados y limitaciones del estudio. Palabras claves: Distribucion del liderazgo, desempeno escolar, calidad educativa,SIMCE, escala de Liderazgo distribuido. Distributed leadership improve the quality of education: Comparative study in public schools of north of Chile Abstract Distributed leadership is a construct that has obtained broad relevance in the field of school improvement research, however, in Chile research is still incipient. The aim research was to compare the distribution of leadership in schools of intermediate and initial achievement in SIMCE in a city of north of Chile. We applied distributed leadership scale to 64 teachers from 4 schools in the city of Calama (2 of initial achievement and 2 of intermediate achievement). Through means comparison tests, it was found that those schools with intermediate achievement obtained significantly higher scores in the scales of school vision, school culture, instructional program, use of artifacts, teacher leadership and intuitive work relationships. The results and limitations of the study are discussed. Keywords: Leadership distribution, educational attainment, educational quality, SIMCE, Distributed Leadership Scale.