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The Self-Perceived Knowledge of Special Education Administrators in Kuwait
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Abbas, Zainab; Almusawi, Hashemiah; Alenezi, Nouf – International Education Studies, 2019
Administrators of special education identify and provide essential services for students with disabilities. No research has been conducted on the perceptions of Kuwait's special education administrators regarding their knowledge in key special education standard areas. This study examined those perceptions and the extent to which they are…
Descriptors: Special Education, Students with Disabilities, Administrator Attitudes, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Use of Accountability Indicators to Evaluate Elementary School Principal Performance
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Byun-Kitayama, Chiae – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Recently, the federal government has pressured states to add student growth data as a part of the evaluation system. State legislatures in New York and Colorado have passed legislation to revamp teacher and principal evaluation to include student growth data. Numerous researchers acknowledged the critical impact of school principals on student…
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary Schools, Principals, Administrator Qualifications
Principals' Role and Public Primary Schools' Effectiveness in Four Latin American Cities
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Anderson, Joan B. – Elementary School Journal, 2008
This article examines the effectiveness of observable and quantifiable traits in and approaches of school principals in enhancing student achievement. Data were gathered on 2,048 fourth-grade students in 96 public primary schools in Leon, Mexico; Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Santiago, Chile. The UNESCO/ORELAC (United…
Descriptors: Discipline, Teacher Persistence, Parent Participation, Academic Achievement
Learning Leadership Matters: Teachers' Experiences of Innovatively and Conventionally Prepared Principals. School Leadership Study: Developing Successful Principals
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Orr, Margaret Terry; Orphanos, Stelios – Stanford Educational Leadership Institute, 2007
This paper investigates the relationship between innovative leadership preparation and teacher outcomes, building on prior research on the effects of preparation on leadership and effects of leadership on teacher outcomes by drawing on two different teacher samples (Stanford University-based study of innovative programs and the SASS teacher…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Structural Equation Models, Teacher Surveys, Factor Analysis