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Download full textGrimmett, Peter P.; Crehan, E. Patricia – 1987
The research on supervision and school effectiveness suggests that principals acting as supervisors of instruction make a difference in teacher performance and pupil learning. This study investigated whether effective clinical supervision requires supervisors who practice certain strategies and procedures as they dialogue with supervisees, or…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education
Rutherford, William L.; And Others – 1983
This paper considers the kinds of interventions that elementary school principals make for the purpose of improving practice in their schools. Findings are derived from the Principal-Teacher Interaction Study being conducted at the University of Texas at Austin, which has categorized interventions hierarchically at the following levels: policy,…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement
Minsky, Elaine; And Others – 1984
This study, initiated by the Scarborough (Ontario) Board of Education, examines principals' perceptions of their role in curriculum implementation, the difficulties inherent in this role and the support systems available to assist principals, and the leadership component of the principals' role in curriculum implementation. Interviews, based on a…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Curriculum Development
Goldsberry, Lee; And Others – 1984
The aims of this symposium are to examine and discuss critically the findings of a major survey of practices in instructional supervision. Data from over 1,000 teachers and their supervisors in central Pennsylvania were compiled, and findings are reported in four sections. The first section is an introduction focusing on the theoretical…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement
Little, Judith Warren; Bird, Thomas D. – 1984
In this 2-year study, the assumptions and methods of role theory were employed to guide the description and analysis of instructional leadership among secondary school principals. This paper reports selected findings from the first year's work--a focused ethnographic study of instructional leadership patterns in five secondary schools--based on…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Educational Environment, High Schools
Gougeon, Thomas D. – 1989
This paper highlights the findings of Gougeon's 1989 study of high school principals of schools with grade configurations 9 through 12 in the state of Washington, a study based on the Principal Leadership as Social Control (PLASC) theory. Accordingly, the first section describes the PLASC theory as social control of teachers through power- and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Employer Employee Relationship, High Schools, Leadership
Pavan, Barbara Nelson – 1983
This paper summarizes research on teacher attitudes and performance under clinical supervision. The literature for comparative studies of inservice personnel (not student teachers) in elementary and secondary schools was extensively searched. The 19 complete and 4 in-progress studies reported are grouped as follows: (1) attitudes toward…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Educational Research
Tri-State Educational Research Conference Proceedings (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 15-17, 1983).
Research for Better Schools, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1983
These proceedings of the 1983 New Jersey-Pennsylvania-Delaware conference are arranged in five sections. Section I, "National Issues," includes summaries of (1) a panel session on the role of educational research and research funding in the new Congress; (2) a paper on "most wanted answers" to questions concerning (a) teacher…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Administrator Role, Case Studies, Cost Effectiveness
Lyman, Lawrence – 1987
This paper examines factors that promote and diminish teacher trust in the instructional supervision process. Trust--key to the supervisor's success in helping teachers change behaviors--is correlated with such factors as confidentiality, approach to dealing with complaints, and the development of collaboration and participation in supervisory…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Cooperative Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
Sergiovanni, Thomas J. – 1985
This essay proposes a responsive research agenda to examine relationships between supervisory inquiry and practice on one hand, and teaching and learning on the other. The agenda first calls for policy-oriented research that examines the implications of state-mandated educational changes on supervisory practices and commensurate teaching and…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Bureaucracy, Career Ladders
Bird, Thomas D.; Little, Judith Warren – 1985
This study examined instructional leadership in eight diverse secondary schools in four urban, suburban, and small-city school districts in one western state. The aim was to gain access to a set of schools that provided both variety in instructional leadership and diversity in school size, organization, grade level, faculty and student…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Case Studies, Decentralization
Ellis, Thomas I. – Research Roundup, 1986
Included in this summary analysis of three journal articles and two documents on teacher evaluation are reports that touch on difficulties facing school officials in developing a teacher evaluation system and suggestions for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of an evaluation system. The first article, by Susan S. Stodolsky, challenges…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Concurrent Validity, Cooperative Planning, Decision Making
