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Selecting and Developing Educational Leaders: A Search for Excellence. NASSP's Assessment Center Project.
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Hersey, Paul W. – NASSP Bulletin, 1986
This brief introductory article describes the NASSP's Assessment Center Project, a comprehensive plan to assist school districts in identifying and developing highly skilled school leaders. As such, it introduces a series of articles in which those who have used the NASSP Assessment Center describe their experiences. (TE)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Education, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Qualifications
Running a Successful Center: Increasing One's Potential to Become an Administrator.
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Jones, Ron; Godfrey, Gerald E. – NASSP Bulletin, 1986
Two success stories are presented of good teachers who were given a chance by the NASSP assessment center to demonstrate their administrative skills and were subsequently selected to fill administrative positions. Participation in the assessment center has provided more objective information on administrative candidates than was previously…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Education, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Qualifications
Implications for Universities: Defining the Mission of University Involvement.
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Kelley, Edgar A. – NASSP Bulletin, 1986
College and university faculty engaged in the preparation of school administrators should have a vital role in all applications of assessment centers and the principles upon which assessment centers are based. Faculty involvement in uses of assessment center technology can improve administrator preparation programs. (TE)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Education, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Selection
Observations of Participants: Individuals Benefit from Exercises, Feedback.
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Wendel, Frederick C. – NASSP Bulletin, 1986
Directors, assessors, and participants in various NASSP-accredited assessment centers attest to the value of the experience from their own individual perspectives. Regardless of their performance and subsequent assessment, almost all participants indicate that they learned much about themselves. (TE)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Education, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Qualifications
Training the Assessors: Twelve Skill Dimensions--Professional Benefits.
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McCall, Douglas S. – NASSP Bulletin, 1986
The Michigan Institute for Educational Management's Assessment Center Program is based on evaluation of a candidate's strengths and weaknesses in 12 skill areas. The author, a high school principal, describes personal insights derived from this 12-fold evaluation process. (TE)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Education, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Qualifications
The Principalship in Georgia: Superintendents' Perceptions. Commission Working Paper.
Georgia Professional Standards Commission, Atlanta. – 1984
The views of Georgia school superintendents on leadership preparation and the role of principals are examined to determine future directions and standards for preparing public educational leaders in the state. Data were collected from 182 (97 percent) of the state's total of 187 superintendents. In the first part of the paper, Georgia…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Education, Administrator Evaluation
The Role of the Principal in Effective Schools: Problems & Solutions. AASA Critical Issues Report.
McCurdy, Jack – 1983
Recent research has suggested that the principal's role in the effectiveness of schools is far more important than had been believed earlier. What the principal's role typically is, what it ideally should be, and how it can be changed are the topics of this report. The first two chapters survey (1) the research on characteristics of principals of…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Evaluation