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Mueller, Faye; Lee, Ginny V. – School Administrator, 1989
The Peer-Assisted Leadership (PAL) Program created at Far West Laboratory (San Francisco, California) gives principals and vice-principals a year-long professional development program to reduce their isolation and improve their instructional leadership performance through nonevaluative peer observation and reflection. A key element is challenge…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Leadership, Job Performance
Peer reviewedDeLuca, Joseph; Rogus, Joseph; Raisch, C. Daniel; Place, A. William – NASSP Bulletin, 1997
Summarizes a survey of Ohio superintendents' and other administrative supervisors' perceptions of the career-threatening problems experienced by principals. Respondents were asked to rate the deficiency effect of 23 administrative competencies later grouped into 7 clusters. Principals perceived as at risk most frequently experience problems with…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Effectiveness, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Kowalski, Theodore J. – American School Board Journal, 1998
Recommends some specific actions to help school board members evaluate their superintendent's performance. Evaluation should be annual; it should be formal, objective, and ethical; and it should be linked to district improvement. By working effectively to improve personal performance and the district's overall effectiveness, the board and…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Evaluation, Board Administrator Relationship, Educational Improvement
Pellicer, Leonard O.; Stevenson, Kenneth R. – Executive Educator, 1987
The key to an employee-supported evaluation system is involving a significant majority of those affected in the planning process. This article describes the development of a new evaluation system for 200 administrators and supervisiors based on attitude surveys and a large administrator-dominated steering committee. (MLH)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Boards of Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textCousins, J. Bradley – 1988
The ways in which principals use performance appraisal data for personal professional development, the characteristics of those who use such information, and the features of performance appraisal systems and decision contexts that are predictors of appraisal use were studied through a series of interviews at four sites (two with high appraisal…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Utilization, Foreign Countries
Cooke, Robert A.; Rousseau, Denise M. – 1981
Research of 25 Michigan elementary and secondary public schools is used to test a model relating organizations' problem-solving adequacy to their available inputs or resources and to the appropriateness of their structures. Problems that all organizations must solve, to avoid disorganization or entropy, include (1) getting inputs and producing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditure per Student
