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Incorporating Alternative Assessment Measures in an Educational Leadership Preparation Program: Portfolios and Educational Platforms.
Barnett, Bruce G. – 1991
An educational leadership program that combines student portfolios and an educational platform as student assessment measures is described in this paper. Beginning with a brief discussion of the purposes and mechanics of portfolios and platforms, the paper then describes how these assessment measures are integrated into an educational leadership…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Alternative Assessment, Graduate Study, Higher Education
Peer-Assisted Leadership: Expanding Principals' Knowledge through Reflective Practice.
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Barnett, Bruce G. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1990
A program that encourages knowledge generation and reflection is peer-assisted leadership (PAL), where principals shadow one another and conduct reflective interviews. Principals' reactions reveal their concerns about professional isolation, their need for relevant information, their frustrations as instructional leaders, and their desire to avoid…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Management Development
Peer-Assisted Leadership: Reducing Educational Managers' Professional Isolation.
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Dussault, Marc; Barnett, Bruce G. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1996
Presents a study that verified the effects of the peer-assisted leadership program (PAL) on communication networks and professional isolation of 41 Quebec educational managers, using a one-group pretest posttest design. Results showed that PAL significantly reduced professional isolation without widening participants' communication networks. (34…
Descriptors: Administrators, Distance Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Using Peer Observation and Feedback to Reduce Principals' Isolation.
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Barnett, Bruce G. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1989
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)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Education, Administrator Qualifications, Educational Administration
Long-Term Effects of the Peer-Assisted Leadership Program on Principals' Actions and Attitudes.
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Barnett, Bruce G.; Mueller, Faye L. – Elementary School Journal, 1989
Describes long-term effects of the Peer-Assisted Leadership program on participants with regard to their administrative actions, perspectives of their roles as school leaders, and collegial networking and support. (PCB)
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Collegiality, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
The Long-Term Effects of Inservice Training for Principals.
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Barnett, Bruce G.; Mueller, Faye L. – 1987
The literature provides scant evidence that training programs for teachers and administrators have lasting effects on job performance. The study summarized in this paper focuses on principals' perceptions of how their involvement in the Peer-Assisted Leadership (PAL) Program has affected their ongoing actions and attitudes. To determine if PAL's…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Effectiveness, Collegiality, Elementary Secondary Education
Using Alternative Assessment Measures in Educational Leadership Preparation Programs: Educational Platforms and Portfolios.
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Barnett, Bruce G. – Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education, 1992
This article discusses how alternative assessment strategies can tap into learners' espoused theories of action and ways in which educational platforms and portfolios become strategies for revealing learners' theories. The leadership preparation program of the University of Northern Colorado (Greeley) shows use of platforms and portfolios in a…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Alternative Assessment, College Students, Educational Administration
A New Slant on Leadership Preparation.
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Barnett, Bruce G.; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1992
Instead of merely certifying administrators, the University of Northern Colorado is transforming its preparation focus from managerial skills to leadership development. The new knowledge base for future administrators stresses understanding self, using inquiry, shaping organizations, and understanding people and environmental influences.…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Evaluation, Adult Learning, Beliefs