The main purpose of this study is to hypothesize the existence of the general sense of role satisfaction and device a scale to measure it. The participants in study 1 were 1029 Japanese high school students (484 men and 545 women). The result of exploratory factor analysis suggested that the two-factor structure is adequate. One is "social…

Schools, school districts, and school clientele have a pervasive influence upon their principal's behavior through a network of rewards, sanctions and inducements. (Author)

The study investigated the association of school superintendents' Machiavellian orientation and self-perceptions of influence as well as school board members' and other administrators' perceptions of superintendent's influence. (Author/JC)

Suggests that many special education resource teachers are confused relative to their responsibilities, if any, for serving nonhandicapped pupils in public schools. Suggests that regular education-special education cooperative planning effort can be negatively affected unless the issue of serving nonhandicapped pupils is satisfactorily resolved…

A school can be an educational opportunity for mentally retarded citizens only if its teachers and learners can decide together on such things as the purposes toward which activities are directed, the means of reaching them, and the subject matter to be used in stimulating thinking. (Author/NQ)

The perceptions of teachers in black high schools as compared to teachers in white high schools and the perceptions of black teachers in black high schools as compared to white teachers in black high schools were examined using five variables. (Author/RK)

Questionnaires asking principals, teachers, and superintendents to rank-order items dealing with the principal's actual and ideal role were sent to 105 school jurisdictions in Ontario, Canada. Findings indicated teachers and superintendents view the principal's role differently, while the principal view of his role is most like that of the…

This investigation was designed to determine how professional educators perceived the role expectations of associated teacher centers. Findings indicated that role expectations associated with inservice teachers were the most definitive and positive. Those for parents/community were least satisfactory in terms of importance/relevance, presence,…

Purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of three different groups of educational personnel toward the problems of the beginning supervisor. (Author)

A partnership of home and school working toward common educational goals continues to be the unformulated ideal of our society. In an effort to promote serious consideration of this relationship, six home-school relationship models are examined in light of what the author considers the "mindlessness" of present day educational planning.…

The purpose of this study was to determine how counselors and administrators who had taken counseling courses and were now practicing in their respective roles perceived the role of the school counselor. Education 603 Leadership and School Transformation was designed to prepare future counselors and administrators to participate in collaborative…

The purpose of this study was to determine if a number of supervisory tasks could be categorized according to delineated dimensions. (Editor)

Stressors in school counseling were researched by surveying 240 school counselors about prevalence of stress experienced, sources of stress, and possible relationship between perceived stress and biographic variables (sex, age, marital status, assigned grade level, years of counseling experience). Counselors indicated moderate stress concerning…

The central purpose of this study was to isolate the aspects of interaction which need to be analyzed in comparing open and closed plan schools. (Editor)