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PDF pending restorationTheodory, George C. – 1983
This field study profiles the roles of secondary school principals in Lebanon, focusing on four areas: (1) role-specific behaviors necessary for success; (2) the degrees of significance attached to each of the behaviors by principals, teachers, and students; (3) the extent to which such behaviors are actually found; and (4) the consequent picture…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Foreign Countries, Principals, Role Perception
Peer reviewedWhite, Virginia P. – SRA Journal of the Society of Research Administrators, 1991
This reprinted 1970 article examines the role of the university research administrator and finds that the role involves paradoxes between controller and entrepreneur, master and slave, censor and publicist, and traditionalist and innovator. (DB)
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Higher Education, Research Administration
Download full textGreenfield, William D. – 1985
Partial results are reported from a longitudinal study that investigated role learning among teachers seeking and obtaining principalships or assistant principalships. Data were obtained from indepth interviews with 14 administrative candidates. A brief theoretical discussion classifies new administrators' job behavior according to three responses…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Assistant Principals, Elementary Secondary Education
Bartell, Carol A. – 1986
This document reports on a study of the implementation of new teacher evaluation procedures as part of a consultant-designed teacher incentive plan in three elementary schols. The study focused on the impact of this effort on the role-related interests (job satisfactions and needs) of teachers and administrators. Teachers' role-related interests…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Navarro, Richard A.; And Others – 1986
This progress report of ethnographic research on instructional leadership focuses on a new elementary school principal's role formation in relation to teaching staff and district organizational culture. The project, which examines the prevailing notion of instructional leadership in school effectiveness literature, reveals a gap in perspective…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Classroom Research, Decision Making, Educational Assessment
Murphy, Sheila C.; And Others – 1986
This document includes four papers presented at a symposium, based on a synthesis of five years of research--on the interaction of role groups and factors in the change process that are critical for school improvement in elementary and secondary schools. The papers identify elements of the change process crucial for the success of proposed changes…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adoption (Ideas), Assistant Principals, Change Agents
Carpenter, DeeDee Currier – 1987
This study of the school board agenda-setting role among 30 Minnesota superintendents interprets their perceptions in relation to environmental contexts, group demands, issues control, and district enrollment size. A microperspective of David Easton's political systems model provided the guiding conceptual framework. Respondents were interviewed…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Agenda Setting, Board of Education Policy
