Polling and comparing the perceptions of principals, office staff, and teachers, the author focuses on the design of his study, which was intended to evaluate behaviors and competencies considered vital to school principals and to cite areas for professional development. Such professional development needs, sought by the large midwestern school…

Twenty-four characteristics of effective leaders are described as an aid in helping others become effective student activities directors. It is stated that leaders are made, not born; leadership must be learned from experience, not from a textbook; and one must build on successes and learn from mistakes. Among the characteristics of effective…

A college president discusses long-range planning in a private college and suggests problems and difficulties confronting those responsible for it emphasizing the critical ingredient of presidential leadership qualities that stimulate a spirit of dialogue and philosophizing about the nature, aims, and objectives of the institution. (JT)

Examines the way principals gain compliance, and reports some initial observations regarding relationships between the types of power principals were perceived to exercise and staff assessments of issues pertinent to the ef fective operation of schools. (Available from Department of Educational Administration, University of Alberta, Edmonton,…

This study was undertaken to provide a comparison of primary/elementary teachers' perceptions in Australia and the United States of the skills, competencies, and behavioral attributes that principals should possess to administer an effective school. Utilizing the Audit of Principal Effectiveness, 140 primary teachers in Australia and 347…

Attending to the questions of how school leadership influences learning and achievement and what effective school leaders do, this document describes a measurement-based approach for studying and developing effective school leadership. The document details the conception, refinement, and psychometric properties of the Instructional Leadership…

This report on the process by which a university librarian is selected is based on interviews with key participants in searches for library directors at five medium to large universities, each of which had selected a new university librarian within the two years prior to the survey. It was found that the five universities--one private, one…

Participants in the American Council on Education (ACE) Fellows program and Harvard University's Institute for Educational Management (IEM) were compared on demographic characteristics, locus of control, and degree of satisfaction with the program. Thirty-two participants from the ACE program and 82 IEM participants were studied. Levenson's…

Graduate school deans were surveyed to determine whether their sex caused any significant differences in any aspect of their careers. Attention was directed to their backgrounds, college administrative experience, perceived power within the areas of their job functions; job satisfaction, long-range goals, and the size and function of the graduate…

The makeup of college and university governing boards and the characteristics of board members were studied in 1985, as an update of a 1977 survey. A total of 215 single-campus boards and 157 multicampus boards provided information that was statistically adjusted to represent the traits of the 2,200 boards governing of the nation's 3,000 nonprofit…

The history of the University of Hawaii Board of Regents (UH BOR) is reviewed and compared to other public university governing boards, and recommendations are offered to increase the board's effectiveness. Based on a review of the literature on public university governing boards, a consensus of opinions is used as a basis to evaluate the UH BOR.…

The results of a survey of 400 randomly selected principals from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland appear to validate a newly developed instrument for measuring three factors: the depth of principals' interests in information developed through educational research, the extent to which these principals exhibit rational approaches to…

Examines some of the leadership competencies and personal characteristics necessary for the creation of an effective learning environment, which is the primary goal of educational leadership. (Author/WM)

While women constitute a majority of all professional employees in elementary and secondary education, they are not proportionately represented in administrative positions. (Author)

A professor of educational administration presents seven proposals for the appropriate training of principals. The proposals are based on the experiences the professor had during a year in which he returned to the role of principal. (Author/IRT)