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Vickers, Bettye Hamill; Sistrunk, Walter E. – 1989
To influence teaching in a way that enhances and improves student learning is the school principal's responsibility. Because perceptions are more important than actual behavior, it is essential for principals to know if their perception of their supervisory actions is in agreement with the way their teachers perceive the same supervisory…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Education, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Styles
Ward, Betsy B.; Sistrunk, Walter E. – 1989
Increasing demands for educational accountability make it important for principals to know how and when to successfully use methods of supervision with teachers to attain the mutual goal of instructional improvement. To determine whether significant differences existed between junior high school teachers' perceptions of principals' supervisory…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Role, Instructional Leadership, Junior High Schools
Berry, Bobbie C.; Sistrunk, Walter E. – 1989
The lack of a clear role definition for the special education supervisor has resulted in an interpretation of the position as that of a facilitator, planner, and legal rights guarantor for exceptional children. To determine whether differences existed between the self-perceived supervisory methods of special education administrators and their…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership Styles, Organizational Climate
Download full textRichardson, Gloria D.; Sistrunk, Walter E. – 1989
The empowerment of teachers through collaboration, a supervisory trend currently receiving much attention and emphasis, employs variability and encourages cooperative decisionmaking. Despite its apparent popularity, collaboration can be viewed as unwieldy and difficult to manage with teachers who are already working under less than desirable…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Collegiality, Leadership Styles, Organizational Climate
Sistrunk, Walter E.; And Others – 1989
Due to parental disenchantment with a Mississippi Delta junior high school principal, the principal's leadership style, the school climate, and group interactions were investigated. A consultant was employed to determine teachers', students', and parents' perceptions of the school climate and of the principal as a leader, and then to recommend a…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role, Educational Environment, Junior High Schools
Sistrunk, Walter E. – 1981
The development of two instruments useful in evaluating supervisory behavior is described in this paper. Form 1 of the Supervisory Behavior Description Questionnaire (SBDQ) is an ordinal-type scale originally composed of eight sub-scales and 132 triads of items. Each item is composed of a very directive statement, a collaborative statement, and a…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Field Tests
Ward, Betsy B.; Sistrunk, Walter E. – 1988
As instructional supervisors for their buildings, principals must know how and when to supervise teachers so that the mutual goal of instructional improvement can be attained. This study investigates the differences between public junior high school teachers' perceptions of principals' actual supervisory behaviors and their preferences for…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Junior High Schools, Mail Surveys, Principals
Sistrunk, Walter E. – 1986
A series of supervisory behavior studies that began at Mississippi State University in 1980 are summarized. The studies were instigated because of interest in effective supervision and dissatisfaction with an indepth literature search of supervision literature. The theories disclosed were fragmentary, contradictory, and impractical for use by…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Elementary Secondary Education, Job Satisfaction, Motivation
Sistrunk, Walter E.; Sistrunk, Patricia D. – 1985
This study was conducted, using the Supervisory Behavior Description Questionnaire (SBDQ) Form 1, to determine if there were significant differences in the supervisory behaviors of secondary school principals, secondary vocational directors, and community college academic deans as these supervisory behaviors were perceived by the teachers in these…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Evaluation, Behavior Rating Scales, Comparative Analysis
Sistrunk, Walter E.; And Others – 1983
Two data-gathering instruments, the Supervisory Behavior Description Questionnaire (SBDQ) and the derivative Supervising Teacher Behavior Description Questionnaire (STBDQ), are described in one paper and employed in three others in this symposium series. Both forms are useful in evaluating perceived behaviors of supervisory educational personnel,…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Behavior Patterns, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Pullen, Deborah B.; Sistrunk, Walter E. – 1990
In November 1989, a study was conducted to determine if there were significant differences between ideal and actual supervisory behaviors of community college vocational supervisors, as perceived by vocational instructors and by the supervisors themselves. A random sample of 35 supervisors and 378 vocational instructors was selected from all…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Characteristics, Community Colleges, Cooperation
