Suggests areas to be included in administrative training, including administrative evaluation, implications of the changing nature of secondary education, ways in which schools and their structures can influence pupils' social development, and organizational theory. (Author/WD)

Describes examples of standards frameworks for principals' work operant in three countries and describes an alternative approach based on interviewing 40 Australian principals. By combining qualitative case studies with probabilistic measurement techniques, the alternative approach provides contextually rich descriptions of growth in performance…