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Setting Proficiency Standards for School Leadership Assessment: An Examination of Cut Score Decision Making
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Cravens, Xiu Chen; Goldring, Ellen B.; Porter, Andrew C.; Polikoff, Morgan S.; Murphy, Joseph; Elliott, Stephen N. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2013
Purpose: Performance evaluation informs professional development and helps school personnel improve student learning. Although psychometric literature indicates that a rational, sound, and coherent standard-setting process adds to the credibility of an assessment, few studies have empirically examined the decision-making process. This article…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Cutting Scores, Decision Making, Standard Setting (Scoring)
The School Board President's Perception of the District Superintendent: Applying the Lenses of Social Influence and Social Style.
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Petersen, George J.; Short, Paula M. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2001
Exploratory study uses components found in social-influence theory and social style to examine the school board presidents' perceptions of the district superintendent's ability to influence the construction of the board agenda and voting decisions made by school boards in 131 randomly chosen school districts. (Contains 106 references.)…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Agenda Setting, Boards of Education, Decision Making
Social Judgment Theory: Applications to Educational Decision Making.
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Heald, James E. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1991
Cross-disciplinary similarities and differences are apparent among various conceptualizations of decision making. This article isolates several decision theories outside education traditions and reports the application of social judgment theory to improving educational administrators' ability to identify high-risk students. (42 references) (MLH)
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Decision Making, Definitions, Educational Administration
Reflection as a Means of Developing Expertise.
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Short, Paula M.; Rinehart, James S. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1993
Focuses on a cognitively based reflection process (in a graduate educational leadership program) for developing administrators' expertise in problem solving, decision making, and complex thinking. Quantitative and qualitative analysis of student journal entries around critical incidents during the year-long set of experiences revealed that changes…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Effectiveness, Cognitive Psychology, Decision Making