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Applying Standards for Leaders to the Selection of Secondary School Principals
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Wildy, Helen; Pepper, Coral; Guanzhong, Luo – Journal of Educational Administration, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report innovative research aimed at ascertaining whether standards for school leaders could be applied to the process of selecting senior secondary school principals for appointment. Specifically, psychometrically robust measures of performance are sought that would sufficiently differentiate performance to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Principals, Personnel Selection
Measuring School Facility Conditions: An Illustration of the Importance of Purpose
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Roberts, Lance W. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to argue that taking the educational purposes of schools into account is central to understanding the place and importance of facilities to learning outcomes. The paper begins by observing that the research literature connecting facility conditions to student outcomes is mixed. A closer examination of this…
Descriptors: Research Needs, Educational Facilities Improvement, Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries
Improving the Quality of School Facilities through Building Performance Assessment: Educational Reform and School Building Quality in Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Ornstein, Sheila Walbe; Moreira, Nanci Saraiva; Ono, Rosaria; Limongi Franca, Ana J. G.; Nogueira, Roselene A. M. F. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2009
Purpose: The paper describes the purpose of and strategies for conducting post-occupancy evaluations (POEs) as a method for assessing school building performance. Set within the larger context of global efforts to develop and apply common indicators of school building quality, the authors describe research conducted within the newest generation of…
Descriptors: Building Design, Focus Groups, Questionnaires, Educational Change