An ever-increasing proportion of high school students in the United States today aspire to graduate from college. Yet statistics indicate that the percentage of college students receiving bachelor's degrees has remained relatively constant over the past 25 years, that it now takes on average 6 years to get a four-year college degree, and that somewhere between 30 percent and 60 percent of students now require remedial education upon entry to college, depending on the type of instruction they...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Academic Achievement, College Preparation,...
The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the priority level of the roles and responsibilities of the superintendent/principal in Illinois as perceived by board of education presidents, teachers' union presidents, and practicing superintendent/principals in the 102 Illinois school districts utilizing the superintendent/principal model. The findings found agreement in the two roles (chief financial officer and role model) and two responsibilities (financial oversight and build a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Statistical Analysis, Superintendents, Principals, Administrator Role, Administrator...
In the present paper, I discuss the internal conflict that accompanies the work of fellow pedagogical supervisors in teacher training institutes. Such internal conflict is manifested in the difficulty that pedagogical supervisors face in successfully integrating the subjective (the personal) and objective (the professional) dimensions of the work of pedagogical supervision. This difficulty, I argue, challenges the possibility of formulating ideological guidelines for the tutor-student...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Education, Supervisors, Supervision, Guidelines, Teacher Student...
This study identified the nature of principals' supervisory roles and the perceived effectiveness of principals in the supervision of teachers' instructional tasks. Furthermore, it investigated the constraints faced by principals in the performance of supervisory duties in the teaching-learning process. This was with a view to providing information on the utilisation of principals' roles in enhancing quality assurance in secondary schools. The study employed the descriptive survey design. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Principals, Quality Assurance, Foreign Countries, Administrator...
The study examined principals' management role effectiveness of secondary schools for youth leadership in Calabar Education Zone of Cross River State. The study employed survey research design. The target population comprised all 158 principals in both public and private secondary schools in the study area. The sample selected through random sampling technique consisted of 35 public and 35 private secondary schools principals, bringing it to a total of 70. Three research hypotheses were...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Youth Leaders, Leadership Training,...
This study explores the official policy of the state of Israel in regard to principal preparation programs, a topic which has hardly been investigated so far and has gone through significant change in recent years. Public documents from Israel were explored. Document analysis was a three-stage process--condensing, coding and categorizing. The analysis was based on interpretation of the documents collected, attempting to detect explicit and implicit meanings concerning the topic at hand....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Principals, Administrator Education, Documentation, Content...
Little research explores the relative influence of various stakeholders on school discipline policy. Using data from the SASS and ordered logistic regression, this study explores such influence while assessing variation across schools types and changes over time. Principals consistently rate themselves and teachers as the most influential stakeholders over setting school discipline policy. The proportion of racial minorities in a school predicts greater influence from higher levels of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, School Policy, Discipline Policy, Governance, Charter Schools, Equal Education,...
Instructional coaching is a reality in many schools today, yet administrators often lack experience or background on how to utilize this professional development model effectively. Instructional coaching can help administrators balance the managerial and instructional leadership responsibilities required of their role. As districts adopt the practice as a part of their professional development model, administrators require a clear understanding of the opportunities and factors associated with...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Coaching (Performance), Elementary Secondary Education, Administrators, Partnerships...
In this study we analyze the extent to which policy documents that include standards and expectations for the preparation of school principals (i.e., head teachers) influence democratic practices. This comparative research examines educational policies that influence the work of principals both in Sweden and in the U.S., the state of Texas asking: What does it mean for a principal to create a school environment that emphasizes democratic practices? The context of education is provided for both...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Policy Analysis, Educational Policy, Principals, Democratic Values, Educational...
Current research reveals a large percentage of teaching positions and administrative services credentials are held by women, although historically, men dominate the superintendent role. Specifically in the area of women in the superintendency, a discrepancy exists between men and women in recruitment practices, types of barriers and challenges, and the length of time one stays in the superintendent position. This study examines the superintendent role and the perceived leadership qualities...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Gender Bias, Women Administrators, Superintendents, Barriers, Administrator Role,...
The issue of developing a comprehensive licensure system aligned with professional standards for teachers and school leaders has received considerable attention in recent years. As part of the Qatari educational reform in recent years, teachers and school leaders are held accountable to offer quality education for all students. The current study thus examined the experiences of educators in Qatar with the licensure process currently implemented at government-funded school. Using a survey study...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Teacher Certification, Public Schools, Teacher Surveys, Program...
The current study was constructed based on the recommendations of a previous study (McHenry & Borger, 2013). Though inquiry-based teaching has long been touted as an effective pedagogy, its application by middle school science teachers has been problematic. Using tools developed from the previous study in conjunction with professional development grounded in instructional coaching, the program attempted to support middle school teachers in making informed instructional decisions that...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Faculty Development, Middle School Teachers, Secondary School Science, Science...
A three-year collaborative research project in a K-6 elementary school is underway. The collaboration entails participating educators and their students exploring curricular enactment that embraces critical and creative thinking within its conduct. This article reveals whole-school efforts over Year One to build educators' and students' confidence to do so, sustaining such curricular practices. Chronicled as a case study, narrative inquiry fittingly unfolds the particularities encountered...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Play, Critical Thinking, Creativity, Educational Change, Case Studies, Teaching...
The introduction of competitive rankings and research assessment frameworks have necessitated that research organisations continually monitor their research strengths and weaknesses. Such monitoring is essential to be able to strategically respond in a competitive environment. There is little research on the role of research management in research organisations, including universities, but the literature suggests that when implemented well, research management is an essential component of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Institutional Research, Research Administration, Institutional Role, Evidence,...
The purpose of this study is to identify the characteristics and traits of individuals and buildings in which teacher empowerment is strongest, so that those schools and individuals can be further studied and emulated. An additional purpose of the study is to investigate the relationships between principals and school environment characteristics, and levels of teacher empowerment. It is hypothesized that those buildings that have only one building administrator will have higher levels of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Leadership, Facilitators (Individuals), Administrator Role, Leadership Role,...
As research administrators look to define their roles as professionals, the need to address perceived administrative burden becomes a valuable next step in improving research administration. A qualitative investigation into the causes of the perceived burden identifies local variability of research administration as regulatory burden for those research administrators looking to be seen as professionals by the researchers performing human subject research.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Research Administration, Administrators, Qualitative Research, Researchers, Federal...
The state of Kentucky mandated College and Career Readiness as a part of the revised education accountability system. The new system is known as Unbridled Learning assessment and accountability. As a result of this mandate high schools in Kentucky are trying to understand the steps necessary to implement a successful College and Career Ready program for their students. The goal of this research was to examine the knowledge of College and Career Readiness held by administrators, counselors and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Readiness, College Readiness, Accountability, High Schools, Program...
This study explores the perceptions of school heads and teachers in facilitating young dyslexic children in primary mainstream schools of Pakistan. Through purposive sampling, the researcher selected eight participants: Four primary school heads and four primary teachers from elite schools of Karachi. The research instrument selected for this study was in-depth interviews to get a deeper insight of school heads' and teachers' perceptions regarding the facilitation of dyslexic children. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Principals, Elementary School Teachers, Administrator Role,...
The significance of biorepositories has been known for many years but the latest advances in clinical and translational research and increased collaborations among investigators have made biorepositories even more prominent. Biorepositories collect and store human tissue and serum samples used in both the research and treatment of disease. In cancer, researchers are now able to take a tissue sample of a human tumor and implant it into a mouse to duplicate the human disease progression and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Scientific Research, Research Administration, Cancer, Biological Sciences, Barriers,...
Principals' implementation of national reforms in the educational arena resembles a wild ride on a roller coaster as they face with contradicting demands, ongoing confusion and ambiguity. As critical change agents, principals interpret and translate reform demands into local practices through a process of sense-making. This current qualitative research explored 60 high school principals' sense-making processing of their leadership within a national reform through their use of metaphors. Data...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Principals, High Schools, Transformational Leadership, Figurative Language,...
What liability is associated with assuming the role of the "sponsor" in a clinical trial? This article discusses the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations governing sponsorship, and how courts have interpreted those regulations in cases with a claim of injury. There is a natural concern with the responsibility implied by assuming the role of "sponsor" in a clinical trial agreement. In a commercially sponsored clinical trial, for example, the site can reasonably...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Public Agencies, Pretesting, Federal Regulation, Donors, Research Administration,...
The individual charged with stewarding the academic research and creative activity enterprise (i.e., Chief Research Officer or Vice President/Chancellor for Research), has tremendous responsibility and influence over the institution's ability to achieve its overall mission. Yet, the skills and knowledge required to successfully serve in this role have not been comprehensively studied. To address this deficiency, we synthesize the views of 78 sitting Chief Research Officers to document the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Research Administration, Research Universities, Administrator...
Principals of modern Title I elementary schools, where at least half of the student population lives in poverty, must possess a broader set of leadership skills than has been historically necessary. The ability to motivate teachers utilizing effective communication is one such skill set. This qualitative research proposes a division-level training program designed to improve communication skills of principals and aspiring principals based on the self-reported communication strategies of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Principals, Elementary Schools, Disadvantaged Youth, Poverty, Leadership...
The purpose of this quantitative study was to identify the perceived barriers obstructing the implementation of online education by administrators and faculty at the School of Arts and Sciences of a U.S. university located in Lebanon. The aim of this study was to offer a solution to the most important perceived barriers to online education that informs administrative decisions concerning the appropriate modalities of online instruction that may be implemented at the university. The exploratory...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis, Barriers, Online Courses, Administrator...
Goal of the study is to compare training and appointing processes of education administrators in developed and developing countries to see similarities and differences and also the situation in Turkey so as to give some suggestion thought to have some positive impacts on training and appointing-related problems of Turkish Education. Within the terms of this main goal, some developed countries such as England, United States, France and Finland as well as some developing countries such as Turkey,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Developed Nations, Instructional Leadership,...
Over the past decade, multiple states have implemented a form of regional school district consolidation referred to as multi-district unions. Their organizational structure enables districts to retain individual school boards within regional local education agencies, all of which are overseen by a superintendent and a central board. However, no empirical research has been conducted to date on the ensuing work of multi-district superintendents. In our exemplary case study, we analyze time...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Politics of Education, Superintendents, Consolidated Schools, School Districts, Case...
This qualitative case study used General Systems Theory and social network analysis to explore the relationships between the members of a district central office and principals of elementary schools within an urban school district in the Midwest. Findings revealed sparse relationships between members of the district central office and principals, more opportunities for higher performing schools to participate in decision making, and few opportunities for all schools to provide feedback to the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Systems Approach, School Districts, Central Office Administrators, School...
The racial/ethnic tensions, policies, and practices in society can be mirrored in spaces and institutions like schools. In schools, sociopolitical discourses can be reproduced and protected in institutional policies. One way K-12 leaders can initiate change and limit marginalization of students is by creating a school environment that accepts and integrates students regardless of legal status. This study investigates how K-12 school leaders influence the school climate to enhance receptiveness...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Undocumented Immigrants, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education,...
Purpose: Teacher empowerment involves investing teachers with the right to participate in the determination of school goals and policies as informed by their professional judgment. By empowering teachers, teachers can discover their potential and limitations for themselves as well as developing competence in their professional development. This makes teacher empowerment a crucial issue. The primary aim of this research is to determine school administrators' roles in empowering the teachers at...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Empowerment, Administrator Role, Qualitative Research, Content Analysis,...
I contend that South African school leaders perform their functions within a managerialistic school system that focuses strongly on prescribed standards, quality, and outcomes. The aim is to draw attention to the conceptual contradiction inherent in the labelling of the school principal as a leader rather than as a manager. In practice, school principals are expected to perform within a framework of control systems and performitivity, which are the core features of managerialism. The argument...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Principals, Governance, Leadership Styles, Leadership Responsibility, Leadership...
I explore the role and skills a principal needs to succeed in a transforming South African township school environment. I looked in detail at four principals and schools exposed to innovation. Two were successful in transforming their schools and two were not. The successful principals were able to seize innovations and make them work for the school. They were selective in the innovative practices they accepted but, compared with principals of less successful schools who opposed many of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Principals, Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries, Success, Administrator Role,...
The world faces a great developmental revolution in all scientific fields which in its turn affects different aspects of life, such as: the medical, engineering and educational fields, etc. The educational school's aspect in particular will be the topic of this research. It tries to assist in developing the different aspects of the educational leader's character in order to be capable to work, conduct research, create and innovate through developing how to think and how to be a creative leader...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Leadership Role, Foreign Countries, Focus Groups, Instructional Leadership,...
As K-12 online programs mature, it is increasingly important that they work to retain their effective teachers. However, there is little research that has examined teacher satisfaction in K-12 online learning environments. Our analysis of 22 interviews with 11 teachers at an online charter school identified three primary factors that influenced teacher satisfaction. First, teachers enjoyed having flexibility in when, where, and how they taught. The use of open educational resources was...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Secondary Education, Charter Schools, Online Courses, Teacher Attitudes,...
This article uses current research recommendations for teacher-led professional development as well as qualitative data from a set of grassroots conferences to propose a new model for bottom-up teacher-led professional development. This article argues that by providing a neutral space and recruiting expertise of local experts, a public sphere can be created that allows participants to tackle challenging topics and learn new ideas in a manner that promotes teacher efficacy. Findings from the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Leadership, Instructional Leadership, Faculty Development, Qualitative...
This study investigates the experiences of a group of classroom teachers who transitioned into administrative roles as vice-principals in a rural schoolboard in southwestern Ontario. We included both elementary and secondary former teacher leaders who moved into the school administration and explored the aspects of their leadership experience that influenced their decision to make the transition into an administrative role, the challenges they faced, and how their formal and informal leadership...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Teacher Leadership, Administrators, Professional...
School leaders are a central factor of the quality of learning and teaching in schools. It is generally believed that the staff model their behaviour on leaders, which means if school leaders understand the physical school environment to be an important factor of learning, school staff (teachers and other professional staff) will also do so. To discover how school leaders assess the school environment as a factor of learning, 150 school leaders in primary education in Slovenia were invited to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Administrator Role, Elementary Schools, Online Surveys,...
This research investigated the experiences of new teachers employed in urban school districts and how these novice teachers' perceived school district and school administrators' support required to retain them as well as teacher's perceptions of their pre-service experiences and/or induction programs necessary to prepare them for an urban environment. The three middle schools selected were characterized by high poverty, low academic achievement, and not meeting Average Yearly Progress. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Beginning Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Urban Schools, Teacher Persistence,...
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between a social justice curriculum and the dispositions of graduate students enrolled in an online pre-service school principal preparation program. Data Collection: Students were asked to write reflective essays before the course began and again after the course was over discussing their understanding of social justice and the roles and responsibilities of educational leaders to make social justice a priority. Students' essays were...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Social Justice, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training, Administrator...
There has been acceptance of the view that leadership is a critical variable in determining the outcomes of schools. Leithwood et. al (2004) contend that effective leadership is second only to the quality of classroom instruction in determining student outcomes. The quality of classroom instruction is a function of a number of variables including teacher training, teachers' sense of personal efficacy, and the quality of the relationship between teachers and their principals. Fullan (2014)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Principals, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Effectiveness, Outcomes of...
There has been debate among states as to how to properly fund schools. The debate has been focused on how much funding is supplied through property tax and is motivated by tax payer anger over fluctuating tax bills. Many of the policies have been implemented without looking at the effects that they will have on schools, especially in Indiana, which saw dramatic restructuring of its school funding mechanism and property tax structure. This qualitative study explores the effects of how the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Taxes, Funding Formulas, Superintendents, Administrator Role, Resource Allocation,...
The current study was set to examine the role of school principals in Israel in the professional development process of their teachers following the implementation of a new professional reform. 159 teachers and 13 principals responded to a questionnaire designed to collect data concerning the involvement of principals in initiatives developed by their teachers. Two main differences were found to be significant, with regard to principals' involvement in selecting the initiative's focus and in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Questionnaires, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator...
This study aimed to explore the challenges academic women, especially those who were mothers of pre-school age children, went through. The main guiding question of this study was "How do academic mothers with pre-school age children survive in the academia from pregnancy through all the various stages of parenting and motherhood?". This study employed qualitative case study research design. The study was conducted in a faculty of a state university in Turkey. 6 academic women...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Women Faculty, College Faculty, Females, Preschool Children, Child Rearing, Family...
The main objective of this study was to assess the supervisory practice of cluster resource centre (CRC) supervisors in Jimma Zone primary schools. To achieve this purpose, the descriptive survey design was employed. Data were collected from 238 randomly selected teachers, and 60 school principals with a response rate of 98.6%. Moreover, 12 CRC supervisors and 6 Woreda supervision coordinators participated through purposive sampling. Questionnaires, interview and observation were used to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Supervisors, Supervision, Elementary Schools, Teacher Surveys,...
This study aimed at showing health supervisor's role in enhancing the effectiveness of health education areas in public schools in the city of Ma'an, Jordan, and its relationship to some demographic variables for the academic year 2016-2017. The study population consists of all health supervisors in public schools in the city of Ma'an for the academic year 2016-2017. The entire school number reached 38 schools including 13 schools for males, and 25 schools for females. The total sample size of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Health Education, Public Schools, Health Personnel, Supervisors,...
The focus of this paper is on the roles and experiences of interim administrators in higher education. A survey was given to current and recent interim administrators in four-year public universities and colleges across the United States. The goals were to identify the advantages and disadvantages of using and serving as interims, and to solicit advice for institutions and individuals who are considering the interim role. Results of the study indicate that participants believe there are clear...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Administrative Change, College Administration, Administrator...
Information systems produce significant benefits to organizations. Therefore, organizations invest tremendous amount of money and time to obtain and manage information in order to maintain a high level of performance and to remain competitive. There are many factors that can impact the organizational information management and performance. One of the significant factors is to keep organizational environment secure. Information Security program is considered as one of the key factors for making...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Educational Administration, Administrator Role, Information...
This study aimed 1) to describe a school principal's leadership and the context of the school's overall teacher culture that cultivated an award-winning team at an elementary school; 2) to analyze the award-winning team's learning behaviors, shared goals, values, beliefs, mutual interactions or dialogues, and sharing of experiences; and 3) to unveil the key factors that shape excellent teaching team culture and its functions. Major findings were: (1) The award-winning teacher group at the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Principals, Leadership Styles, School Culture, Teamwork, Elementary Schools,...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of the opinions of private practitioners and educational advocates on instructional leaders' decision-making processes when making a recommendation for special education eligibility. School-based administrators (n = 56) with varying years of experience as special education administrators participated in this study. Using data from a series of vignettes and from structured interviews, results indicated that private practitioners and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Instructional Leadership, Decision Making, Special Education, Eligibility,...
The modern school superintendent fulfills a unique role in the U.S. public education system. He or she is structurally empowered as the de facto head of the local educational system, thereby granted with a certain amount of trust and authority regarding educational issues. At the same time, the superintendent is, in most cases, an employee of a politically appointed school board. While norms have traditionally encouraged superintendents to use caution with respect to political discourse (Boyd,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Superintendents, Social Media, Discourse Analysis, Administrator Attitudes, Political...
The purpose of the article is to justify the increasing role of a university department in achieving the major objective of higher education, namely to train highly qualified specialists for the national economy. The article contains some of the results of monitoring (questionnaire) of 350 heads of departments of Russian universities, as well as 30 experts--experienced representatives of the university management. The factors that complicate the job of university departments and their heads...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Department Heads, College Faculty, Universities, Administrator...
