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Download full textVandenberghe, Roland – 1987
The general meaning of research data drawn from study of school improvement programs creates the opportunity for sound theory building. By emphasizing the principal's role in policy development, this paper analyzes the characteristics of large-scale educational innovation projects and their explanatory foundations. Belgium's comprehensive Renewed…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Demonstration Programs, Educational Innovation, Elementary Education
Griswold, Carolyn; Macfie, Ian – 1990
A study investigated selected personal characteristics of 124 highly visible presidents belonging to four institutional associations that include among their members the nation's major universities and four-year colleges (National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, American Association of State Colleges and Universities,…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Role
Gougeon, Thomas D.; And Others – 1990
The comparison of principals' self-perceptions of social control communication with teacher perceptions, and the characterization of principals' communication patterns are the goals of this paper. Structural functionalist and symbolic interactionist theories are integrated with the Leader As Social Control (LASC) model to develop an instrument to…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Communication Skills
Pavan, Barbara Nelson; Reid, Nancy Andrade – 1990
Identification of principals' instructional leadership behaviors and the time they spend involved in the process of school improvement is the purpose of this study. A second focus is on the ways in which principals build school cultures. The Principals Instructional Management Rating Scale (PIMRS) (Hallinger 1983), the National Task-Time Survey…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Elementary Education, Elementary Schools
Larsen, Terry J. – 1987
Results of a questionnaire on instructional leadership administered to elementary school principals and teachers in California confirmed literature findings that instructional leadership behavior significantly influences student achievement. The study sought to determine (1) the 29 most important instructional leadership behaviors through…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Administrator Role, Elementary Education
Pavan, Barbara Nelson – 1987
A survey of male and female school administrators in Pennsylvania reveals that sexual division of labor in household activities differs little from stereotypical role expectations. A survey, mailed to 1,324 male and female administrative incumbents and aspirants, yielded 622 responses for a rate of 47 percent. The survey explored personal…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education
Lynn, Laurence E., Jr., Ed. – 1979
Interviews with 180 federal agencies that conduct social research and development (R&D) were conducted and documents were examined to determine: (1) what types of social R&D are supported, and what levels of support are provided; (2) who defines the problems to be researched, who decides the level of support to be provided, and how investigators…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Policy, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
Croghan, John H.; Lake, Dale G. – 1984
The purpose of this three-part report is to identify the competencies of high-performing principals, based on a study conducted by the Florida Council on Educational Management (FCEM). Part I reviews the background that led to the study of the principalship. It describes the factors leading to the creation of legislation that focused on the role…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Role
White, Arthur H.; Bartolomeo, John S. – 1982
The attitudes of chief executive officers (CEO's) of a sample of major U.S. corporations toward corporate philanthropy were surveyed. The sample consisted of 69 Fortune 1300 companies, 73 companies with $50 to $100 million annual sales volume, and 77 companies with $25 to $49 million annual sales volume. Attention was directed to current giving…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Agency Role, Business
Sivage, Carole R. – 1982
Results and analysis of interviews, with deans and faculty members at ten schools of education are reported in this study, focusing on deans' roles and behaviors as administrators of Dean's Grant Projects. Large research institutions and smaller, primarily teacher training, institutions participated in the study. The purpose of the Dean's Grants…
Descriptors: Academic Deans, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Advocacy
Cottrell, Milford C.; Hughes, Donald L. – 1978
A 1976 survey of 741 Utah women educators revealed that very few of them aspire to administrative positions in the public schools. Superintendents were also surveyed to assess their attitudes about women in administration. Of the 40 Utah superintendents, 32 responded. The typical woman educator is not prepared, preparing, nor planning for an…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Administrator Selection, Administrators
Meyer, Calvin F.; Van Hoose, John J. – 1981
This study investigates hypotheses about differences in the perceptions of middle school principals and teachers concerning those principal performance skills that are practiced and those that should be practiced. A survey instrument consisting of 37 principal performance skills on a five-point Likert-like scale was sent to the principals and…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role, Educational Administration, Instructional Improvement
Morris, Van Cleve; And Others – 1981
This ethnographic study of 16 Chicago school principals explores the principal's effect on students and teachers within the school; on parents and laymen in the community; on their superiors in the administrative hierarchy; and on themselves as career-oriented professionals. A brief literature review relates studies examining the principalship of…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Behavior, Board Administrator Relationship, Decision Making
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1978
Although self-determination funds in fiscal year 1977 accounted for about 25 percent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) budget for the operation of Indian programs, the BIA has not adequately supervised tribal performance under these contracts and grants. Questionable use of funds, incorrect interpretations of regulations, inadequate criteria…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Change, Administrator Role, Agencies
Hurwitz, Emanuel, Jr.; Porter-Gehrie, Cynthia – 1979
This paper examines the decision making process used by selected principals as they implemented the 1977 faculty desegregation plan of the Chicago Public Schools. A historical summary of the development of the plan, from the 1969 ultimatum issued to the Chicago Board of Education by the Attorney General's Office to the 1977 adoption of the plan is…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Case Studies
