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PDF pending restorationStephenson, Robert W.; Burkett, James R. – 1975
A systems analysis of the Air Force On-the-Job-Training (OJT) System was conducted to describe its operation, structure, requirements, and functions, and to develop new or improved methods and alternatives for evaluating the effectiveness of OJT programs. Seven major command headquarters locations were visited for the purpose of discussing…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Administrators
Download full textDickson, Stanley; And Others – 1976
The chairman of the College Senate along with representatives from the administrative staff, the local council, and the student body developed this evaluation instrument to sample the attitudes, opinions and beliefs of the faculty, staff, and student body regarding the performance of the college's president. The evaluation criteria included: (1)…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Responsibility
Gorton, Richard A. – 1976
This book is directed to those individuals who are interested in developing a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities for leadership in school administration. The focus of the text is on principles and theories of administering and improving a school; however, many of the chapters are also relevant for other administrative levels.…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Administrators
Matthews, Mark; Karr-Kidwell, PJ – 1999
This paper presents the results of a literature review on educational methodology reforms. The first section discusses five factors in broad-based school reforms: change theory; organizational theory; state/national politics; local politics/governance; and leadership theory. Five types of reforms for school-wide success are described in the second…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Change
Peer reviewedVisakorpi, Jarmo K. – Higher Education Management, 1996
Changes in staffing patterns of Finnish universities are examined, particularly the increase in administrative staff in relation to academic staff. Explanations are offered for the decrease in maintenance, service, and auxiliary research and teaching personnel. New skills that are required in these areas and relations between administrative and…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Administrators
Peer reviewedSweeney, Richard T. – Library Trends, 1994
Discusses radically transformed library organizations and the characteristics of the library leaders who will create them. The development of posthierarchical libraries, reasons for reeingineering traditional libraries, characteristics and roles of posthierarchical library leaders, critical leadership strategies, and impediments to transforming…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Administrators, Change Strategies
Peer reviewedOberg, Dianne; Hay, Lyn; Henri, James – School Library Media Research, 2000
An international research project investigated the role of principals in developing and supporting information -literate school communities. Principals and teacher-librarians completed three surveys examining their perceptions/beliefs about their current and future roles, and views on such concerns as strengths and challenges of the school…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Administrators, Comparative Analysis
Ruckel, Carol; Hennes, James – 1994
A survey was conducted of 687 teachers and 768 administrators on the implementation and perceptions of Colorado's mandated certificated personnel performance evaluation system, which requires that all school districts adopt performance standards for certificated personnel and that all administrators receive training in personnel evaluation skills.…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Administrators, Educational Improvement
Research Notes, 1998
This document consists of the two 1998 issues of a semiannual newsletter that provides current information and research on the professional world of early childhood administration. The Summer 1998 edition provides a "Profile of Early Childhood Center Directors." This profile finds that: (1) individuals were promoted to directorships…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Role, Administrators
Sanacore, Joseph; Rauch, Sidney J. – 1990
Intended for practitioners and graduate students in reading education and educational administration, this guide presents theory, research, and practice that will help prospective and working administrators and supervisors to conceptualize better ways of helping children learn to read and want to read. Chapter One, "The Need for Reading…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Administrators, Computer Uses in Education
Shrestha, Bijaya K. – OSSC Bulletin, 1990
Effective crisis management as a function of the chief school administrator's role is examined. A new professionalism and recognition of districts and schools as complex organizations facilitate administrators' ability to handle this enlarged responsibility. Chapter 1 identifies forms of school crises and offers explanations, drawing upon…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Administrators, Crisis Intervention
Effect of Leadership Styles of School Administrators on Teacher Evaluation of Their Job Performance.
Ogletree, Earl J.; Thomas, Vernadine – 1990
The effect of leadership styles of school administrators on teacher evaluations of their job performances is examined in this paper. A secondary focus is a comparison of teacher characteristics and their effects on administrator evaluation. A principal evaluation survey was administered to 120 Chicago public and nonpublic school teachers,…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Administrators
Austin, Ann E. – 1985
Personal, job-related, and environmental factors that might account for academic mid-level administrators' general job satisfaction were studied with a sample of 260 administrators at a large research university. Attention was directed to: personal characteristics (sex, age, number of years employed at the university), perceived job…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Administrators
Barbacovi, Don R.; Clelland, Richard W. – 1978
The purpose of this handbook is to examine the statutory and regulatory requirements of Public Law 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, and to outline various administrative responsibilities of local educational agencies relative to the successful implementation of the act. Four specific goals are listed: (1) to inform public…
Descriptors: Administrative Agencies, Administrator Role, Administrators, Due Process
STOKE, HAROLD W. – 1966
HIGHER EDUCATION MUST BE VIEWED IN TERMS OF ECONOMICS, POLITICAL SCIENCE, SOCIOLOGY, AND PSYCHOLOGY. THE TYPES OF QUESTIONS WHICH SOCIAL SCIENTISTS USUALLY ASK ABOUT ORGANIZATIONS AND AGENCIES IN INDUSTRY, BUSINESS, AND OTHER SETTINGS ARE RAISED ABOUT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. STUDENT AND ADMINISTRATOR PROBLEMS CONNECTED WITH THE DIVERSITY AND…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrator Role, Administrators, Decision Making
