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Perceived Purposes of Performance Appraisal: Correlates of Individual- and Position-Focused Purposes on Attitudinal Outcomes
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Youngcourt, Satoris S.; Leiva, Pedro I.; Jones, Robert G. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2007
Performance appraisals have traditionally been directed at individuals, serving either an administrative or developmental purpose. They may serve a role definition purpose as well. This study sought to identify and more broadly define the purposes of performance appraisals to include this role definition purpose. Furthermore, this study examined…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Job Satisfaction, Personnel Evaluation, Role Perception
African American Adolescents and Skin Color.
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Robinson, Tracy L.; Ward, Janie V. – Journal of Black Psychology, 1995
Determines if skin-color perception in the lives of African American adolescents affects self-esteem and dating relationships. Findings from 123 adolescents show the existence of relationships between satisfaction of skin color and self-esteem and dating. Findings also show more males than females desired lighter skin tone. Implications are…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Attitudes, Black Students, Dating (Social)
Leadership in Librarianship.
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Gertzog, Alice – Library Trends, 1992
Describes two surveys administered to library professionals holding leadership positions to develop a list of perceived library leaders. Topics discussed include social structure; the locus of leadership; integration of the library profession; the degree of shared perception; and questions raised by the research, including methodology. (32…
Descriptors: Leaders, Leadership, Librarians, Library Administration
Teachers' Roles in the Classroom: Adopting and Adapting to the Paradox of Education within a Prison Institution.
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Paup, Elizabeth Gail – 1995
This paper explores the personal and professional changes that took place for a teacher who taught English in two Washington State prisons. A gradual change in teacher behavior and authority resulted from a self-examination of the role of teacher in this special teaching environment; the teacher found she could learn from the students as well as…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, English (Second Language), Environmental Influences, Language Teachers
Role Expectations of Elementary Teachers as Perceived by Principals and Teachers in Low-Income Schools. Research Reports on Educational Administration Volume VI, Number 6.
Deever, R. Merwin; Berg, George E. – 1976
This dissertation summary discusses a study to investigate the elementary school teacher role and its concomitant expectations as perceived by principals and teachers. Teachers were surveyed as to how they perceived their own roles and what they thought principals perceived the roles of teachers to be. Principals in those same schools were…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Elementary Schools, Principals, Questionnaires
Early Experience and Spatial Functioning in the Blind.
Schmitt, Terry Lyndell – 1978
A review of the literature on the spatial functioning of the blind, the results of a questionnaire of 75 sighted college students and their parents, and results of a study of 87 blind and seeing adults' performance on three spatial tasks are presented. The review suggested that adventitiously blind individuals perform better than congenitally…
Descriptors: Adventitious Impairments, Blindness, Congenital Impairments, Developmental Stages