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"Educational Administration Quarterly", 1979-2003: An Analysis of Types of Work, Methods of Investigation, and Influences
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Murphy, Joseph; Vriesenga, Michael; Storey, Valerie – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2007
Purpose: The objective of this article is to provide an analysis of articles in "Education Administration Quarterly (EAQ)" over the 25-year period 1979-2003. Approach: The approach is document analysis. Findings: Information is presented on four key themes: (a) types of articles published; (b) methodologies employed; (c) topic areas emphasized;…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Periodicals, Journal Articles, Research Methodology
Toward a Critical Constructivist Approach to School Administration: Invisibility, Legitimation, and the Study of Non-Events.
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Anderson, Gary L. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1990
Advocates a critical constructivist approach to educational administration. Establishes the need for research accounts exploring the administrator's legitimation role. Describes a mediation model providing access to the invisible ways that dominant social constructions are accomplished and sustained through management of meaning. Discusses…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Administration, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Instructional Leadership and School Achievement: Validation of a Causal Model.
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Heck, Ronald H.; And Others – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1990
Summarizes a study that tested a theoretical model concerning elementary and secondary school principals' influence on student achievement. Results showed that 3 latent instructional leadership variables (school governance, instructional organization, and school climate) affected student achievement. Includes 54 references. (MLH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Behavior Patterns, Educational Environment
Reforming Paper Pushers and Avoiding Free Agents: The Teacher as a Constrained Decision Maker.
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Conley, Sharon C. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1988
This article examines the problem of maintaining an effective balance between the bureaucratic and professional models of school management in the context of teachers as constrained decision-makers. (TE)
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Role, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
Reassessing the Principal's Role in School Effectiveness.
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Hallinger, Philip; Heck, Ronald H. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1996
Reviews 1980-95 empirical literature on the relationship between the principal's role and school effectiveness. Examines conceptual underpinnings of several theoretical models to study the role, the relationship between models and investigation methods, and the nature of principals' influence. Principal leadership and school goals indirectly…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Context Effect, Educational Environment