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An Examination of the Benefits, Limitations, and Challenges of Conducting Randomized Experiments with Principals
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Camburn, Eric M.; Goldring, Ellen; Sebastian, James; May, Henry; Huff, Jason – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2016
Purpose: The past decade has seen considerable debate about how to best evaluate the efficacy of educational improvement initiatives, and members of the educational leadership research community have entered the debate with great energy. Throughout this debate, the use of randomized experiments has been a particularly contentious subject. This…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Practices, Educational Improvement, Administrator Education
Student Well-Being Interventions: The Effects of Stress Management Techniques and Gratitude Journaling in the Management Education Classroom
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Flinchbaugh, Carol L.; Moore, E. Whitney G.; Chang, Young K.; May, Douglas R. – Journal of Management Education, 2012
Student well-being in the management classroom is of concern to both educators and managers. Well-being is conceptualized here as students' reduction in stress, enhanced experienced meaning and engagement in the classroom, and, ultimately, heightened satisfaction with life. The authors investigated whether purposeful semester-long classroom…
Descriptors: Stress Management, Life Satisfaction, Intervention, Management Development
Developing the Principal's Capacity to Lead Technology Integration within the School: An Action Research Study
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Bobbera, Robert L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The school principal's role is demanding. Responsible for complex systems impacting student learning, the principal must possess knowledge in varied areas of the educational system. Rising from the roots of the teaching principal, the leadership paradigm of modern school principals has evolved over time. With the integration of digital…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Principals, Capacity Building, Action Research
Accountability and Professional Development: Use of the 360-Degree Feedback Appraisal
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Parrigin, Roberta – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This two-stage, quantitative study with purposive sampling and random assignment measured whether managerial participants perceived a sense of accountability for goal setting and participating in professional development as a result of data received from a 360-degree feedback appraisal. There were no significant correlations among the demographic…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Accountability, Professional Development, Predictor Variables
How Long Should a Training Program Be? A Field Study of "Rules-of-Thumb"
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Cole, Nina – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2008
Purpose: This study aims to examine the question of how long a behavioral skills training program should be in order to result in measurable behavioral change. Design/methodology/approach: An empirical field study was conducted to compare two different lengths of time for a managerial skills training program aimed at achieving behavioral change.…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Self Efficacy, Behavior Change, Management Development
Professional Development of Principals: An Alignment Study of the Master Principal Institute's Curriculum with Effective Leadership Practices for School Improvement
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Haynes, Brenda J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The two-fold purpose of the study was to determine whether or not the Arkansas Leadership Academy's Master Principal Institute's (MPI) five curriculum content standards were aligned with the literature of effective educational leadership practices, and to ascertain if there were significant relationships among the principals' leadership practices…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Educational Change, Professional Development, Instructional Leadership