Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which principals' instructional leadership predicts teacher self-efficacy, in order to identify whether a relationship exists between principals' perceived instructional leadership practices and teachers perceived self-efficacy in classroom management, instruction, and student…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the variations in the ways that principals conceptualize their basis of power in schools. Design/methodology/approach: Phenomenography was used as the research method of this study. The interviewees consisted of 16 principals, eight from public schools and eight from private schools. Findings: The…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Self Assessment of Leadership of Teaching and Learning (SALTAL) inventory, in conditions of repeated administration. Design/methodology/approach: In 2006 and 2007, nearly all of New Zealand's newly-appointed school principals participated in an 18 month induction…

Purpose: The focus of this research is to understand the role of the district superintendent, the building principal, and the school leadership team of classroom teachers as catalysts for innovation in instruction and classroom assessment. School characteristics and structures designed to specifically support professional learning communities are…

Describes the development, characteristics, and validation of a model, derived from sources in the literature, for the inservice professional development of educational administrators. The model has three crucial stages: planning, implementing, and evaluating. Each of these stages contains four steps: analysing, developing, operating, and…

A survey analysis of training needs indicated that a majority of British university administrators perceive their role to contain managerial components for which training is desirable. (Author)

Reports on the history, rationale, procedures, and results of a 4-day meeting of some 96 administrators from two large school systems. The meeting was part of a large-scale organization development effort to begin and sustain organizational renewal processes in the entire system. (Author)

The development and operation of the Peer Assisted Leadership training program for principals are reviewed. The types of effects and the efficacy of this approach are described. (21 references) (SI)

The mindscapes (views) of "mystics,""neats," and "scruffies" in relating to educational administration and professional practice resemble a "non-science,""applied science," and "craft-like science," respectively. Examined is the suggestion that current preparation and inservice programs for educational administrators could be wrong. (31…

Describes the means used and problems faced during an effort to implement, maintain, and improve a national program for disseminating training in educational administration to secondary school administrators in New Zealand's Central Region, an administrative area containing 80 secondary schools, by depending on the first trainees to train others.…

Eleven approaches to administrator training representative of the new era are analyzed. Emphasized are pressure for changes, areas of weakness, common aspects emerging, and problems involved in the new movement in training. (84 references) (SI)

Differences among elementary, junior high, and senior high school principals' perceptions of their administrative task competence, involvement with the central office, autonomy, job satisfaction, and length of work week were investigated in relation to social forces confronting the principalship and characteristics of traditional principal…