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Stress and Job Satisfaction among Secondary School Principals in Texas
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Romney, Angela G. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The role of a secondary school principal continues to expand and increase principals' daily workload. The high stakes testing environment also places pressure on principals to ensure that students score high on standardized tests. With a heavy workload, principals find themselves faced with numerous work-related stressors that influence job…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Principals, Anxiety, Job Satisfaction
Women Secondary Principals in Texas 1998 and 2011: Movement toward Equity
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Marczynski, Jean C.; Gates, Gordon S. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze data gathered in 1998 and 2011 from representative samples of women secondary school principals in Texas to identify differences in personal, professional, leadership, and school characteristics. Design/methodology/approach: Two proportionate, random samples were drawn of women secondary principals…
Descriptors: Educational History, Women Administrators, Principals, Secondary Schools
Strategies for Closing the Gap: Predicting Student Performance in Economically Disadvantaged Schools
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Tajalli, Hassan; Opheim, Cynthia – Educational Research Quarterly, 2005
This study, assumes the significance of socioeconomic status (SES) or input factors in explaining achievement, and considers the impact of other "process" variables, that is, factors over which schools have some control. Using the Texas Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS) data, it examines these variables to determine the…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools, Economically Disadvantaged, Institutional Characteristics