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Download full textPadro, Susan – 1977
In analyzing the managerial decisions at the central office of the Dufferin (Ontario) county board of education, this project sought to obtain the data needed to design an integrated management information system. A major component of the study was identifying users and their information needs and relating information to three different levels of…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Padro, Susan – 1977
Interviews with central office superintendents in the academic and business divisions, identification of user needs, and analysis of major management levels provided the data for designing an integrated information system for the Peel Board of Education in Ontario. A synthesis of the data into an overall framework representing the information…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
American Association of School Administrators, Arlington, VA. – 1980
The roles and responsibilities of school boards and superintendents are different, but linked. School boards are primarily concerned with establishing policy and representing the educational interests of district constituents. Superintendents are charged with translating policies into administrative practice and with providing professional…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Board Administrator Relationship, Board of Education Role
Gousha, Richard P. – 1981
Outside factors have changed the role of the school superintendent, leading to alterations in the personal qualities and job expectations that superintendents should have. The outside factors include increased public access to government, new public representatives, more independent political activism, less deference to authority, and a loss of…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Attitude Change, Credibility
Fotos, Joseph P. – 1978
This paper describes the process of using a chief school administrator as a board resource person in contract negotiations involving the wages, hours, and working conditions of teachers. It describes how an administrator in a Pennsylvania school district supported and advised the board negotiating team by compiling, analyzing, and evaluating…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education, Collective Bargaining
Moody, Lamar; Amos, Neil G. – 1978
The aim of this study was to determine the perceptions of school superintendents in Mississippi toward the role of principals as members of the management team. The Team Management Opinionaire (TMO), a 12-item instrument designed by the researchers for the project, was sent to the 152 school superintendents in the state. Usable returns were…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Role, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
HORVAT, JOHN J. – 1968
IN AN APPLICATION OF GAME THEORY TO PREPARE PARTICIPATING PERSONNEL FOR EFFECTIVE PROFESSIONAL NEGOTIATION IN EDUCATION, THREE FORMS OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ARE SIMULATED--ONE FOR A FOUR- TO EIGHT-HOUR TIME PERIOD, A SECOND FOR A TWO- TO FOUR-DAY TIME PERIOD, AND A THIRD FOR A ONE- TO THREE-WEEK WORKSHOP OR SEMINAR. LONGER FORMS PRESENT MORE…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board of Education Role, Collective Bargaining, Game Theory
KLINGENBERG, ALLEN JAY – 1967
DATA FROM 20 REPRESENTATIVE MICHIGAN SCHOOL DISTRICTS (FIVE INNOVATIVE AND FIVE NONINNOVATIVE WITH A HIGH-COST FACTOR AND FIVE INNOVATIVE AND FIVE NONINNOVATIVE WITH A LOW-COST FACTOR) WERE STUDIED TO DETERMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCHOOL SYSTEM INNOVATIVENESS AND ADMINISTRATIVE BEHAVIOR. QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSES WERE RECEIVED FROM 109 OF 116…
Descriptors: Administrators, Behavior Patterns, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
URICH, TED – 1968
THIS STUDY INVESTIGATES THE AMOUNT OF AGREEMENT EXISTING BETWEEN SUPERINTENDENTS, SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS, AND TEACHERS FROM RURAL, URBAN, AND CENTRAL CITY SCHOOL DISTRICTS CONCERNING THE ROLE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT IN THE COLLECTIVE NEGOTIATION PROCESS. TWENTY SCHOOL DISTRICTS PARTICIPATED IN THE STUDY. THESE DISTRICTS WERE DIVIDED INTO CATEGORIES OF…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Collective Bargaining, Q Methodology, Rural Schools
SNOW, R.J. – 1967
TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH SCHOOL SYSTEM ENVIRONMENTS MAY BE DISTINCT IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES AND CONFLICT PROPENSITY, THE VOTING RECORDS, SOCIOECONOMIC DATA, AND ASPECTS OF BOARD OF EDUCATION INTERACTION WITH SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS OF FOUR SUBURBAN ILLINOIS COMMUNITIES WERE ANALYZED. A COMPARISON OF CONSTRAINTS AND SUPPORTS FOR THE…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Community Resources, Conflict, Decision Making
American Association of School Administrators, Washington, DC. – 1966
COLLECTIVE NEGOTIATION BY MAJOR PERSONNEL IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS IS DISCUSSED PRIMARILY FROM THE SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT'S VIEWPOINT. SINCE WORLD WAR II, SCHOOL STAFFS HAVE INCREASINGLY DEMANDED A CHANGE IN THE HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A HORIZONTAL CONCEPT OF EDUCATIONAL AUTHORITY. THIS DEMAND IS ATTRIBUTED TO THE INCREASING…
Descriptors: Administrators, Boards of Education, Collective Bargaining, Grievance Procedures
Whitworth, Jerry E.; Hatley, Richard V. – 1979
To determine the types of training needed by directors of special education, 74 directors and other school personnel (superintendents, special and regular classroom teachers, and building principals) were sent questionnaires designed to obtain their perceptions of training needs, time requirements for training, and time spent at different job…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Martin, David B. – 1979
It is beneficial to identify three administrative teams through linking pins: the principal is the linking pin between the instructional team and the administrative team; the superintendent is the linking pin between the administrative team and the policy team, which includes the board of education; the administrative team consisting of all…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Cooperative Planning
Walters, Donald L., Ed. – 1977
This report outlines the main ideas generated by participants in a one-day workshop on "Futures in Education," which was conducted by the Temple University Department of Educational Administration in May 1977. The format of the workshop emphasized participating discussion; no formal presentations were made except for reporting the results of a…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Conference Reports, Educational Administration, Educational Change
Michigan Association of School Administrators, East Lansing. – 1975
Intended primarily for Michigan administrators, this document presents a variety of information on administrator evaluation. A survey of Michigan superintendents revealed, among other things, that there is a very high interest in administrative evaluation, that 45 percent of the responding districts have no formal evaluation system, that 36…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education, Management by Objectives, Models
