Examines the history of administrator inservice education, the current environmental forces affecting it, the traditional methods of administrator self-renewal, and some directions that such programs should take in the future. (IRT)

Describes the University of Tennessee's innovative approach to preparation of educational administrators. (JF)

Describes a recent study of principals' evaluations and perceptions concerning the quality of inservice learning experiences based on five alternative models. Findings disclosed participants' preferences for short-term institutes sponsored by a professional association and informal networking. More work is needed to design effective inservice…

Describes the organization and delivery of a program for approximately nine principals based on participants' own needs and the use of practitioners themselves as prime resources. (Author/JM)

Describes an inservice education program designed to help principals translate the general aims of new curricula and innovation into specific objectives that can be implemented and whose implementation can be evaluated. (IRT)

Describes the components (course periods, home periods, and practical society-oriented experiences) that make up the compulsory inservice educational program designed to improve the effectiveness of all Swedish educational administrators. (IRT)

Results indicate that administrators' knowledge of and attitudes toward the content of professional development workshops affect their evaluation of the workshops. (IRT)

Argues that school personnel should recognize and understand that the staff development process is a series of interrelated phases that should be followed and that these phases occur within the context of a particular social organization. (Author/IRT)

This test of the Biglan model demonstrated that differences did exist on certain tasks for clusters of department chairpersons. The tasks identified for each cluster represent professional development needs common to all chairs in the cluster and different from the needs of chairs in the other clusters. (Author/IRT)

Looks at current trends in higher education: enrollment, student unrest, finances, and educational accountability. (Author/DN)

Based on a survey of community college chairpersons, conclusions, implications, and recommendations are offered in each of ten areas. (IRT)

The rising demand for administrative staff development is largely a product of external forces (political demands for reform). Many superintendents are exploring alternatives to meet the requirements of employee improvement. This article describes the efforts of three superintendents and a university professor to develop a meaningful database for…

Research supports the notion that substitute teachers generally are ineffective. This study examines whether trained substitutes can be as effective as assigned teachers in teaching students with behavior disorders. Findings showed that substitutes with intensive inservice training in behavior management were equally effective for one-day…

To determine what effect a series of inservice programs for school administrators had on participating school principals and their schools, principals filled out questionnaires before and after five inservice programs. Changes were noted in three domains of participant characteristics--cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. (JW)