A conceptual model for an individualized training program for school administrators integrates processes, characteristics, and tasks through theory training and application. Based on an application of contingency theory, it provides a system matching up administrative candidates' needs in three areas (administrative process, administrative…

Florida's department of education and state university system face the question of how to institutionalize effective methods and techniques to improve administrators' performance. This report attempts to clarify the management roles of coaching, mentoring, and sponsoring. The clarification is necessary because, first, the terms (especially…

This report describes activities of a workshop conducted for fourteen health education practitioners and administrators from a number of different hospital and health care settings and geographical regions to appraise the state of patient education programs. The initiation and growth of patient education programs in a variety of health care…

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of the student affairs administrator as a decision maker in the development and budgets within the organizational system of the university. A basic premise for the model at Temple University is that the role of the administrator is a key factor in solving those conflicts arising from human elements…

This investigation was undertaken to test the relationships among rule administration behavior (how principals administer school rules), leadership behavior, and the sex of black elementary school principals. Twenty principals were subjects, with 200 teachers supplying responses to the Rule Administration Scale (RAS) and the Leadership Behavior…

The relationships that school principals experience with superintendents and school board members are often tenuous. Attempts to include principals as part of management and the results of forming a management team are described in this review. Six journal articles and four documents in the ERIC system are annotated. (MLF)

To claim that ethics and morality lie at the foundation of effective administrative praxis is neither new nor revolutionary--numerous studies have demonstrated that moral issues are embedded in the weave and texture of schooling and influence administrative choices. This paper explores the challenges, tensions and dilemmas new administrators…

Presented at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Secondary School Principals (53d, San Francisco, February 28 - March 5, 1969).

The purpose of this guide, the first of 12 volumes, is to help Connecticut's school districts comply with state legislative mandates for instruction in 11 required subject areas. The first volume assists districts in developing local curriculum guides. Each subsequent volume will cover one of the subject areas. After explaining the purpose of the…

Intended for New York State school board members, the guide outlines the responsibilities of board members regarding education of handicapped students. An overview of state and federal rules and regulations is followed by sections on the board's role in the following areas: working with the Committee on the Handicapped, identifying children in…

This paper is one of a series on strategies for urban school improvement, which examines the interaction between pupil performance and family background. Instructional leadership, instructional emphasis, school climate, and teacher expectation are identified as factors which contribute to major differences in achievement levels among schools.…

Eleven annotations of studies or summaries of studies that are entered in the ERIC system are presented in this leaflet. All the annotations concern principals' behavior characteristics and institutional programs that are related to school success as measured by student achievement. The studies reviewed agree that exemplary principals share a…

A three-day conference on effective schools sponsored by the National Committee for Citizens in Education brought educational researchers, school practitioners, and parents together to discuss a promising approach for restoring the quality of urban schools. This paper, a report of the conference, provides a succinct review of the literature on…

Decentralized or school-based budgeting is a growing practice in Saskatchewan (Canada) school systems. A survey of 179 elementary and secondary principals in 60 of the province's larger rural school districts sought to find the extent of budget decentralization and the principals' attitudes toward the arrangement. The results indicated that (1)…

A model for the analysis of college closing is tested and illustrated using the existing literature of college closings. Since the literature on college closing provided little analysis or material upon which theory might be developed, attention was directed to the work that has been done on the somewhat parallel subject of the closing of…