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Download full textEaton, Judith S. – Transfer: The National Center for Academic Achievement and Transfer Working Papers, 1992
In December, 1991, the National Center for Academic Achievement and Transfer (Washington, D.C.), in cooperation with the Center for the Study of Community Colleges (California), conducted a random national survey of two-year college presidents to identify their attitudes toward and role in curriculum development. Survey findings, based on a 53%…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, College Curriculum, College Presidents
Research Notes, 1998
This document consists of the two 1998 issues of a semiannual newsletter that provides current information and research on the professional world of early childhood administration. The Summer 1998 edition provides a "Profile of Early Childhood Center Directors." This profile finds that: (1) individuals were promoted to directorships…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Role, Administrators
Shrestha, Bijaya K. – OSSC Bulletin, 1990
Effective crisis management as a function of the chief school administrator's role is examined. A new professionalism and recognition of districts and schools as complex organizations facilitate administrators' ability to handle this enlarged responsibility. Chapter 1 identifies forms of school crises and offers explanations, drawing upon…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Administrators, Crisis Intervention
American Association of Presidents of Independent Colleges and Universities, Rockford, IL. – 1984
Trends and issues in higher education are discussed in six papers from the 1983 annual meeting of the American Association of Presidents of Independent Colleges and Universities. In "Innovation Versus Reform in Higher Education" Alston Chase reviews trends, including citizenship instruction, the general education movement, a focus on science,…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Church Related Colleges, Church Role, College Curriculum
DuBois, Donald W. – OSSC Bulletin, 1980
Oregon Senate Bill 354 has required each school district in Oregon to develop a teacher evaluation plan that would include job descriptions, performance standards, observations, postevaluation, and a written program of assistance, if needed. The Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study (BTES) has drawn some conclusions about teacher effectiveness that…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Turnbaugh, Ann – Resource Bulletin, 1986
This resource bulletin provides an overview of creative disciplinary programs in rural, suburban, and urban school settings through interviews conducted with administrators in 1986. Principals interviewed in urban settings expressed concern about student gangs and safety. In rural schools, administrators stated that community cohesion and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Behavior Problems, Discipline, Discipline Policy
Wolfe, Leslie G. – Updating School Board Policies, 1982
School boards can improve their schools if they focus on four factors that educational research says most strongly influence school effectiveness. The four factors are (1) the time students spend on the subject matter each day, (2) textbooks, (3) teachers and their teaching methods, and (4) principals' support to help teachers achieve…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Elementary Secondary Education
Scofield, Sandra – 1979
Practical ways principals can modify and monitor their school's reading programs are suggested in this report that also presents reading theory and research results. The bulk of the report focuses on the elementary school and is divided into a short section on theory and a longer section on practice. Suggestions are given about establishing…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
Salerno, Frederic V.; And Others – Studies in Public Higher Education, 1994
In this report three administrators explore the challenges of integrating technology into the mainstream of academic life especially at the State University of New York (SUNY). Frederic V. Salerno, in "Pedagogy is the Traveller on the Educational Superhighway," asks how technology can be integrated into academic life and sees the answer…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Convergent Thinking
SAIL: Technical Assistance Journal, 1996
This theme issue addresses the provision of behavioral support for students with behavior disorders. The first article, "Providing Effective Behavior Support to All Students: Procedures and Processes" (George Sugai), summarizes the literature on the effectiveness of various interventions and offers several models for examining the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Ancillary School Services, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Change
Duignan, Patrick; Johnson, Neil – Australian Administrator, 1984
The importance of school organization and its impact on teachers' commitment to staff development has been highlighted in recent research. In schools that are favorably disposed toward staff development, the norms of "collegiality" and "experimentation" prevail. Staff practices fundamental to the creation and maintenance of the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Poliakoff, Anne Rogers, Ed. – Basic Education, 2002
This collection of papers focuses on the preparation of teachers by university-based education programs. The papers are: "The STEPS That Support P-12 Learning and Achievement" (Diana Rigden), which describes the Standards-based Teacher Education Project (STEP) for improving student learning; "The Responsibility for Assessing Beginning Teachers"…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Accountability, Administrator Responsibility
Clagett, Craig A., Ed. – Maryland 2000: Journal of the Maryland Association for Institutional Research, 1995
This volume presents five papers on higher education institutional research in Maryland, all of which were originally presented at annual meetings of the Maryland Association for Institutional Research from 1993 through 1995. The first paper is "A Day in the Life of an Institutional Researcher: Past, Present and Future" (Merill…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, College Freshmen, Community Colleges
Dohnal, Hope – OSSC Bulletin, 1975
A conference on new perspectives in school administration was held for elementary school principals in the summer of 1975 by the Confederation of Oregon School Administrators. This paper summarizes material presented in five topic areas by eight speakers. Steve Goldschmidt's talk on school law touched on the administrator's and the school's…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Administrators, Budgeting
Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod, St. Louis, MO. – 1978
Part of a 13-volume series designed to help Lutheran communities assess the feasibility of starting a Lutheran elementary school and to assist ongoing schools in current operation, this handbook focuses on personnel policies for Lutheran elementary schools. Its purpose is to help members of the board of education clarify their expectations of…
Descriptors: Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Elementary Education
